A man was walking in his northeast Modesto neighborhood the morning of Sept. 11 when he spotted vehicles and men outside a house. He said it took him a moment to figure out they were law enforcement, wearing vests and using vehicles with small red and blue lights on their sides.
“I walked past the place and then thought, ‘Oh, this isn’t right,’ and turned around and walked back,” Stephen Gerringer said.
He witnessed what appeared to be Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the corner of Merle Avenue and Walnut Crest Way talking to a man outside a home. One agent was wearing a black ski mask that covered most of his face. Another wore skeletal gloves and a vest that read “Police” and “ERO” below – short for “Enforcement and Removal Operations.”…