An ICE raid on a California cannabis farm descended into chaos and violence on Thursday with a protestor opening fire on federal agents while tear gas billowed around them.
The mayhem unfolded at Glass House Farms in Ventura County in Carpinteria, near Los Angeles.
Members of the National Guard were deployed to the scene along with law enforcement agents.
Just seconds after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fired smoke canisters into a crowd of demonstrators near Laguna Road, one individual could be clearly seen raising a firearm and appeared to discharge it in the agents’ direction.
The raid was part of the broad federal crackdown on undocumented workers in Southern California – but it quickly spiraled into bedlam.