A trio of Air Marshals was chased out of a Korean BBQ restaurant on Wednesday, after people mistook them for ICE agents. Marshals called the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies to Plaza Mexico at around 6.20 p.m. amid a case of mistaken identity, with personnel from two stations responding. When the dozens of deputies reached the scene in the 3100 block of East Imperial Highway, a large crowd had gathered after rumors of their presence spread via social media “like wildfire,” CBS News reports. “We got texts here to the desk,” CBS L.A. assignment editor Mike Rogers said. “It was all over the internet, social media as well, and it turns out these were not ICE agents at all.” The deputies formed a protective line until unmarked vehicles arrived to pick up the marshals and take them to the Sheriff’s Department’s century station. At the time of writing, no arrests have been reported, and the crowd is understood to have dispersed soon after the Air Marshals, who are part of the Department of Homeland Security, were deployed. Acrimony towards ICE agents has reached a fever pitch following the killings of 37-year-olds Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
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