LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Federal agents were seen wearing Halloween masks while driving to and from a Department of Homeland Security operational staging area in the Port of Los Angeles this week, according to volunteers with a local community patrol group.
The incident was documented Tuesday morning by the Harbor Area Peace Patrol, a volunteer organization that monitors federal immigration enforcement activity in the Harbor region. A community member, who asked to be identified only as Phoebe, told Nexstar’s KTLA that several masked agents were spotted leaving Terminal Island, where DHS and ICE vehicles are often staged before morning operations.
“They slowed down, rolled down the window, and stared directly into my camera wearing a Chucky mask,” Phoebe said. “Fifteen minutes later, another agent drove out wearing a Momo mask and did the same. It just reaffirmed that they really have fun doing this type of work, terrorizing our communities.”
Phoebe said she and other patrollers regularly document vehicles entering and leaving the Terminal Island lot, which she described as restricted DHS property located near a public memorial. She said her group cross-references those vehicles with ones later seen at immigration enforcement operations across Los Angeles County…