Deputies had to step in to disperse a crowd outside a Lynwood restaurant after the group confronted off-duty federal agents Wednesday evening, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) told NBC4 Investigates.
The LASD officials responded to a Korean restaurant at around 6 p.m. after receiving a call about the off-duty TSA agents being surrounded by a large crowd.
The agents told deputies that they were eating dinner inside a Korean restaurant when they were confronted by people, who thought the federal officials were from Immigrant and Customs Enforcement, the sheriff’s department said.
When deputies arrived, they saw about 20 people outside the restaurant, yelling the agents go home.
After the TSA agents left the area safely, the deputies were able to disperse the crown without any issue within 30 minutes or so, the sheriff’s department added.
It was not immediately clear why the crowd through the off-duty agents work for ICE.
No one was injured or arrested from the incident.