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Metro reporter @latimes. Military brat. Story tips: brittny.mejia@latimes.com Hablo español. Proud Mexican American
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Immigration Agents Used Racial Slurs Referring to Latinos in Text Messages, Video Obtained by ACLU

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By Brittny Mejia Verified
| Reader Supported News
Immigration agents who descended on Los Angeles last summer referred to Latinos with slurs such as “tonk” and “wet,” according to body camera footage and text messages detailed in a court filing asking a federal judge to bar agents from making stops based on racial profiling. After a June 2025 raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood, body camera footage captured an agent saying: “There was a guy, I’m pretty sure he’s wet.
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LA Crips leader turned gang interventionist faces new charges of soliciting hit on federal witness

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By Brittny Mejia Verified
| The Hanford Sentinel Verified
LOS ANGELES — Eugene "Big U" Henley, a Los Angeles Crips leader turned gang interventionist, allegedly solicited fellow jail inmates to kill or harm a federal witness to prevent them from testifying at trial against him and his associates, according to a new indictment returned Wednesday.
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'See bodies, chase bodies.' What immigration agents' body cameras, texts reveal about L.A. raids Original

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By Brittny Mejia Verified, Clara Harter Verified, Ruben Vives Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Little was known about how federal immigration enforcement operations were coordinated in Los Angeles last year. But that changed this week when hundreds of pages of court exhibits — released through discovery in a federal lawsuit — provided a glimpse into the operations. They revealed random, rather than targeted, stops, a casual use of racial slurs, and apparent frustration among a few officers who feared they were being asked to break the law.
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