A feminine activist threatened park rangers in a profanity-laced fury as they took her into custody for allegedly tearing down an American flag and changing it with a Mexican one at a California park, physique cam footage exhibits.
Crystal Aguilar, 24, was arrested on Thursday for slashing a series that secured a flagpole positioned at Hart Park in Bakersfield earlier than throwing the US flag within the mud and elevating Mexico’s nationwide banner as a replacement, in keeping with the Kern County Sheriff’s Workplace.
“You’re not going to tell me what to do, this is Mexican land, motherf—ker!” Aguilar screamed as three park rangers approached her, the footage exhibits.
She allegedly resisted arrest – with the rangers holding her down – as she repeatedly threatened to have them and their households killed.
“Touch me, motherf—ker, and when your kids die…I’m Mexican. I’m Aztec, motherf—ker, and you’re going to pay,” Aguilar yelled, in keeping with the footage.
“My dad is going to kill you and all your family. You think this is a joke. It’s not.”
Aguilar demanded the deputies flip off her automotive earlier than telling them to get off her land, the footage exhibits.
“I’m going to let my father kill you,’ she hollered twice.
Deputies responded to the park round 9:36 a.m. after receiving a number of experiences of somebody making an attempt to steal the celebrities and stripes, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned. Park rangers then discovered the girl’s white sedan sitting within the muddy grass on the park’s entrance as she futzed with the flags.
Aguilar, who is named an immigrant rights activist in Kern County, lately protested the ICE raids in her neighborhood, citing her Mexican mother and father had been deported when she was a baby, in keeping with KBAK.
She was booked at Ledro jail and charged with threatening a peace officer, vandalism, resisting arrest, trespassing and marijuana possession, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
She is due again in courtroom on Monday.
