Eight minutes of unedited video captured the moments before, during, and after the violent arrest of a Santa Barbara man Friday morning by federal immigration agents on Carrillo Street. The full footage of the incident was shared with the Independent by a source who requested anonymity.
The video ― which has not been previously published ― begins as a group of volunteer ICE observers, alerted to agents’ presence near the Santa Barbara County Probation Department, shout, honk, and blow whistles in the direction of a white Dodge Charger stopped in the street in front of the building.
Two members of the group approach the Charger. The first leans in toward the front passenger window. The second crouches slightly and appears to briefly touch in some manner the car’s rear right tire. Almost immediately, an ICE agent in the passenger seat jumps out and begins grappling with the second man, identified as 27-year-old Santa Barbara resident Jack Randmaa…