Two women knocked on Dana Yates Sahae’s door around 10 a.m. Friday and asked to see her Ring camera footage. What she found waiting for her was video of four immigration agents chasing a man across her San Mateo lawn and taking him into custody just hours earlier, part of a cluster of three arrests within five miles of each other that same morning.
Sahae, a candidate for San Mateo City Council District 5, said she learned only after reviewing the footage that the man had been pursued and apprehended on her property. According to the San Mateo Daily Journal, the footage shows one agent wearing a vest marked “police,” with three others joining the chase — two carrying rifles and one carrying a taser that was deployed during the encounter. Sahae said she posted the video to Instagram because she believed it was important for people to see what immigration enforcement actually looks like on the ground.
The scene that followed was not limited to the arrest itself. Sahae reported that one woman, who had a young child with her, fell to the ground and cried after learning her spouse or partner had been detained by ICE. Later that day, Sahae said she confronted agents when they returned to her property to retrieve remnants of a taser cartridge left behind on her lawn.
Three Arrests, Five Miles, One Morning
Friday’s incident on Sahae’s lawn was not isolated. ICE made three arrests within five miles of each other in San Mateo County that morning, according to the Daily Journal’s reporting — one in San Mateo, another near Ninth Avenue and Delaware Street, and a third on Burlingame Avenue in Burlingame. Rapid responders had been made aware of seven arrests total in just the first six days of November, per the same account…