Watch: How ICE Beating of IHOP Gardener Went Global; SB Jail, Paseo Housing, Mission Tower Update
The moment she saw the sickening video images of ICE agents setting upon Marine dad Narciso Barranco, Lily Dallow knew it was a big story. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how the news got made.
California digital journalist Lily Dallow slacked off from checking her Twitter feed this week, not long after a social media troll suggested she should be “curb stomped.”
Dallow on Sunday became the first reporter in the nation to spotlight a sickening, now-infamous cell phone video of federal masked immigration agents beating a gardener, the father of three Marines, who was cutting grass at a Santa Ana IHOP - and for her effort, she got put on full blast by the MAGA social media mob.
Lily, who paid some dues of KEYT before landing a gig last summer as a digital content producer at KTLA, checked back in with Newsmakers TV on Thursday to discuss her latest viral story - and its ugly aftermath.
“The fear in the community is so real right now,” she said of the mood amid gangs of ICE agents rampaging on the streets of Southern California.
Ryan P. Cruz amplifies that observation, as he reprises his recent reporting on the local activities of masked agents in Santa Barbara County — under political pressure from Washington to boost their quota of deportations — snatching and grabbing people off the street and out of the fields, from a laundromat in Old Town Goleta to the strawberry farms of Santa Maria.
Josh Molina and Nick Welsh update behind-the-scenes developments in two of Santa Barbara’s more controversial housing projects — that eight-story blockbuster tower proposed behind the Mission, which local architects and planners have banded together to try to stop, and the several hundred units envisioned for Paseo Nuevo, on the sites of the former Macy’s and Nordstrom stores.
Plus: a blistering Grand Jury report on the county jail, inside chatter about the 2026 campaigns for mayor and City Council, and some heavy duty punditry about how the biggest issues at City Hall may play with voters next year.
All this and more, right here, right now, on Newsmakers TV.
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