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Downey church community on edge after masked, armed officers detain man on church property

by Erin Stone, LAist June 12, 2025June 12, 2025

The pastors of Downey Memorial Christian Church say a man they believed to be an ICE agent pointed a gun at one of them and said “this whole country is our property.”


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