CAUGHT ON TAPE: HISPANIC MINUTEMAN ATTACKED!!
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You see where the camera is taken and smashed when an Hispanic Minuteman is attacked on a public sidewalk!! No arrest made!!


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HISPANIC MINUTEMAN ATTACKED BY MEXICAN http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=796037
07/15/2007 09:40 am PDTSize: 3.57 MB



MEDIA VIDEO PRIOR TO ATTACK : http://www.nctimes.com/movie/stpeters0707/viewer.html

Shortly before 10 a.m., a member of the San Diego Minutemen, Kiani Garcia of Vista, approached a sport utility vehicle at a driveway in front of the church. An unidentified man on the passenger's side left the vehicle, confronted Garcia and exchanged words with him.

The man reached for Garcia's video camera and threw it on the sidewalk as Garcia drew a canister of mace and sprayed the man's face. The camera shattered into several pieces, one of which apparently bounced off the sidewalk and hit Garcia's face.

Several sheriff's deputies arrived shortly after the incident to investigate. No one was arrested or cited during the protest. The couple in the sport utility vehicle left the scene. Garcia said he was acquainted with the woman and approached the vehicle to tell her to fix the car's cracked windshield. He said he did not know the name of the man, but said he believed it was her husband.

"He came out, hotheaded, and grabbed my camera and took it away from me, and smashed it in the ground, and I maced him," Garcia said. Garcia told sheriff's deputies he wanted to press charges against the man for breaking his camera. Mike Spencer, an anti-illegal immigration activist who attended the protest, said Garcia acted in self-defense.

Garcia "tried to defend himself with Mace, but was injured in the attack and had to go to the hospital," he said in a written statement after the protest.

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