“Just because you look brown, you look Hispanic, you’re going to get stopped, because now it doesn’t matter if you have papers, you speak English or you are a citizen, it’s not enough” [the chased woman's stepdad said]
non-AP story
As the 22-year-old Guzman put it to WWL, she was walking back from a corner store near her home in Marrero,
Louisiana, on Wednesday when an SUV pulled up next to her. More unmarked cars soon arrived, and men clad in masks and tactical gear poured out.
Guzman said she thought she was about to be kidnapped, and she sprinted toward her front door in plain view of a home security camera.
... she surmises that she was pursued because “I’m brown”.
“I have no idea why they targeted me,” Jacelynn Guzman
told the Guardian reporting partner WWL Louisiana on Thursday, a day after the video in question was taken and subsequently went viral online.
“That’s honestly all I can think of … It makes me scared for my family. It’s devastating.”
Asked for comment about Guzman’s remarks, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson issued a statement saying she matched the description of someone who was being sought by border patrol agents in connection with a deportation order.
[Was the description "darker than Pantone's
color of the year"?]
