Maybe they really were immigration officers, just as they claimed. Or maybe they were a ragtag vigilante group, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street.
“It could have been like a band of the Proud Boys or something,” said Linda Shafiroff, recounting the agents who showed up outside her office in masks and tactical gear and refused to show IDs, warrants or even the names of any criminals they were supposedly hunting.
As unrest and military troops overtake Los Angeles, terrifying scenes are also unfolding in smaller communities around the country. They, too, are being invaded by what resembles a secret police force, often indistinguishable from random thugs.
Shafiroff and business partner Sarah Stiner own a boutique home-design and construction firm in Great Barrington, a New England town largely populated by artists, aging hippies and affluent second-home-owners. On May 30, around 11 a.m., six armed agents showed up outside the women’s office. The agents were dressed as though they had parachuted into a war zone, rather than a small town where the crosswalks are painted in rainbows.
The paramilitary-resembling group approached a Hispanic man who was outside the design office, picking weeds. The man did not work for Shafiroff and Stiner’s design firm, but rather for a local landscaping company. (The women say their employees are all citizens or otherwise have documents proving they’re here legally.) Neither Shafiroff nor Stiner knew the gardener’s name, but they said they had seen him around before and that he seemed friendly.
They were also incensed by what looked like an extralegal abduction possibly unfolding in their parking lot.
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When the business owners repeatedly asked the agents to prove who they were, the agents said they didn’t need to show identification, and accused their interlocutors of promoting lawlessness. {snip}
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