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   EL MONTE, Calif. -- A Southern California woman who livestreamed her   
   detainment by federal immigration agents is speaking publicly after she   
   was released from custody Friday evening, describing the encounter as   
   frightening and traumatic.   
      
   Maria Santay is a U.S. citizen and is also a community observer, and   
   believes that has made her a target of federal agents. Her detention on   
   Friday is not the first run-in she's had with immigration agents.   
      
   Santay streamed the arrest live on Instagram from an El Monte Chevron   
   station at Peck Road and Valley Boulevard around 2 p.m. local time. The   
   video shows agents surrounding her vehicle before breaking her car window   
   with a hammer as she cried out.   
      
   "They're breaking my window guys, I'm a U.S. citizen. Insane. This guy is   
   breaking my window guys," she said in the livestream. Moments later, the   
   glass shattered.   
      
   "They're going to try to arrest me," she said, holding back tears. "This   
   is insane. I can't believe this is happening guys. Lord, please protect   
   me, Lord, please. Guys, I don't trust them."   
      
   Santay said she feared for her life during the encounter.   
      
   "I thought, 'This is it. These are my last moments,'" she recalled.   
      
   According to Santay, the confrontation followed what she believes was an   
   intimidation encounter with immigration agents two days earlier, when   
   officers stopped her car near the 10 Freeway.   
      
   Video she recorded at the time captured someone telling her, "That's your   
   first warning."   
      
   "Turns out, they weren't stopping me, they were just intimidating me,"   
   Santay said.   
      
   On Friday, Santay said agents boxed in her car at the gas station as she   
   was livestreaming.   
      
   "One of the officers got on the curb on the middle island to box my car   
   in, one came on here, and one was behind me. Because of all the commotion,   
   the police department got there," she said.   
      
   El Monte police officers did not intervene as federal agents detained her.   
      
   "They threw me in their car, we got on the 10 Freeway, they took me all   
   the way on a joy ride to Santa Ana, and then they get off on an exit," she   
   said.   
      
   By 5 p.m., Santay, whose charges include resisting arrest, was released.   
   Her experience worsened when she said El Monte police refused to let her   
   use the restroom.   
      
   "They made me pee in the parking lot, in some bushes, behind the horse   
   carriers, with handcuffs on," she said.   
      
   In a statement, the El Monte Police Department said officers responded to   
   a call from Customs and Border Protection to support public safety, but   
   that their officers "were not involved in the federal operation."   
      
   Later Friday night, protesters gathered outside the police station,   
   ringing cowbells and honking horns. Santay joined the demonstration   
   despite her earlier ordeal.   
      
   "I prefer that they were taking their time, taking me on a joyride with BS   
   charges, than picking up innocent people that they could have hurt on the   
   street, so I thank them for that. I said 'Thank you, thank you.' I thanked   
   them for not killing me, too," she said.   
      
   Our sister station, ABC7 Eyewitness News in Los Angeles, reached out to   
   Customs and Border Protection for comment on Santay's arrest, but has yet   
   to hear back.   
      
   A GoFundMe has been set up to help raise money for Santay as she prepares   
   for a legal defense and makes repairs to her vehicle.   
      
   https://abc30.com/post/maria-santay-livestreams-detainment-federal-   
   immigration-agents-smash-car-window-el-monte-california/18515280/   
      
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