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Wild scene as protesters trap federal agents in taco shop parking lot; multiple arrests made82%
By Michael Ruiz0%
12/5/2025, 11:02:34 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Emotion, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 51.6% saturation with 161 hits. Analysis detected 456 faulty-reasoning hits from 312 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 74.6% and a BS Rank of 82% (3,080 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 81.70% of the article peer group.
EXCLUSIVE: TUCSON, Ariz. — Protesters swarmed a Mexican restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, Friday morning, briefly locking a group of federal agents in a gated parking lot as they were executing a search warrant as part of a sprawling tax and immigration fraud investigation.
It happened outside a Taco Giro restaurant on North Grande Avenue in Tucson.
A SWAT team responded after protesters surrounded the feds and allegedly used a bike lock to block the exit with agents inside.
"Special agents and officers from ICE Homeland Security Investigations, IRS Criminal Investigation and other federal partners are executing 16 search warrants in southern Arizona as part of a yearslong investigation into immigration and tax violations," an ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
"Multiple individuals are in custody."
More information is expected to be released soon, he added.
Authorities arrived at the restaurant around 9 a.m.
It wasn't open yet.
Between 100 and 200 protesters began gathering outside an hour later, chanting "Go home ICE" and other slogans, some including profanity.
Many of them were carrying identical signs that said, "illegal arrests require a hood."
One protester shoved a finger into an agent's face while standing behind a steel barricade.
Among them was a more confrontational group of about a dozen.
Shortly after 11, someone threw a bottle at an ICE vehicle.
Another placed a bike lock around the gate, locking the agents inside.
Authorities deployed flash bangs and pepper spray and arrested at least two people in the mob in front of a photographer.
After authorities cut the lock off with a saw, video shows smoke in the air as they filed out of the parking lot in law enforcement vehicles.
Protesters jeered as they left.
Earlier, the agents entered a house around the corner, just steps away.
Photos taken there show multiple men in handcuffs being loaded into the back of an SUV.
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