ICE pepper-sprayed a Tucson observer for recording. Now the county attorney is ready to prosecute. Plus: Sheriff Nanos faces removal and a fight over a Marana ICE prison.
🌶️ Pima County Fights Back: ICE Pepper Spray, Sheriff Showdowns & the Battle for Our Borderlands
By Three Sonorans | Borderlands Desk
“He didn’t even break stride. No commands, no ‘get back,’ nothing. Just boom.”
That was Steven Davis — volunteer observer for the Tucson Community Rapid Response Network — describing the moment a masked, plain-clothed ICE agent walked up to him in a South Tucson Walgreens parking lot on April 6 and discharged pepper spray directly into his face…