The female activist threatened the park ranger with profanity as she detained her for allegedly demolishing the American flag and replaced it with a Mexican flag in a California park, bodycam footage shows.
Crystal Aguilar, 24, was arrested Thursday for slashing a chain that secured a flagpole in Heart Park, Bakersfield, throwing a US flag into the mud and raising a Mexican national banner to the spot. According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office.
“You're not going to tell me what to do. This is a land of Mexico, Motherf-Kar!” cried Aguilar as three park rangers approached her, The video will be displayed.
She is said to have resisted arrest – because the Rangers held her down – because she repeatedly threatened to kill them and their families.
“Touch me, motherf – and when your child dies… I'm Mexican. I'm Aztecs, motherfs, and you're going to pay,” shouted Aguilar, according to the footage.
“My dad is going to kill you and your whole family. You think this is a joke. It's not.”
Aguilar requested that her car be turned off before deputies told her to get off her land, footage shows.
“I'll let my father kill you,” she cried twice.
Deputies responded to the park around 9:36am after receiving multiple reports of attempts to steal stars and stripes, according to the Sheriff's Office. The Park Rangers then spotted a woman's white sedan sitting in the muddy grass at the entrance to the park while it was distorted by the flag.
Aguilar, known as a Caan County immigration rights activist, recently protested an ice attack in her community, saying her Mexican parents were expelled as children. According to Kbak.
She was booked at Ledro Prison and charged with peace officer, vandalism, arrest, trespassing and threats to resist possession of marijuana, the sheriff's office said.
She is scheduled to return to court on Monday.
