Nick Valencia

The amount of federal officers here on the streets have made people here feel less safe.

I mean, consider that.

Think about that irony, and that's what they're out here protesting.

Yesterday, they were really upset to see what appeared to be the local police protecting the feds.

You saw, you know, state troopers out here, conservation officers.

You saw, you know, a ton of federal agencies, but you also saw the...

local police department kind of stand in the way between demonstrators and the feds even after all that's been said here by the mayor even after all that's been said by the police chief and then when we got news of the national guard coming in that really uh i think sort of shook a lot of people up we went down there to the federal whipple building where there's been a lot of activity here you know a few miles away from where we're at here in uptown and we saw those national guard uh you know vehicles deployed

We haven't seen them though on the streets here.

This scene quite different, as you mentioned on from yesterday, this is the side of a lot of the clashes between demonstrators and police.

We saw multiple uses of tear gas, chemical agents launched, you know, we saw less lethal rounds.

We were shot at, you know, we were roughed up by the border patrol.

It was also, you know, I should mention yesterday during my live, you know, we were live for about two and a half hours.

And initially I thought my phone had died and it went down until I started hearing from several other independent journalists who I don't know.

They had similar stories.

Their live stream was shut down.

So there exists a scenario that potentially somebody did that deliberately to us.

because they don't want people to see what's going on here.

Thank God that people are reporting.

Right now, behind me, as I'm talking, you have an activist who is taken in the middle of the streets and trying to encourage other demonstrators and other people here who have grown up to join him in the streets.

Yesterday, they declared an unlawful assembly, which is how they were able to get people out of here.