Source: Orange County Register
by Rafael Perez
“There’s a video going around social media of a man named Narciso Barranco being beaten while pinned on the ground by Border Patrol agents in Orange County. The 48-year-old father of three Marines was working a landscaping job when he was approached – before officers subdued Barranco and punched him multiple times in the back of the head, footage shows Barranco running while holding a weedwacker. On Twitter, the Department of Homeland Security alleged that Barranco swung the weedwacker at agents – of the several angles available of Barranco holding the machine, none show him swinging it or assaulting border agents. … What the videos do show is that at least four agents directly holding the roughly 5 ‘6’’ Barranco down on the ground wasn’t enough for them to consider him neutralized – they also had to beat him in the back of the head.” (06/26/25)