Brian Gavidia is the 2025 American story

Not the No Kings rallies. Not the military parade in Washington. Nope—it's the saga of one American and his nightmarish experience.

There is a dude from East Los Angeles named Brian Gavidia. You’ve likely never heard of him, and—before today—I had never heard of him, either. But of all the crazy sagas doing down in America right now, his is, for my money, the best representation of all that plagues us.

According to the Los Angeles Times, last Thursday Gavidia—a 29-year-old who fixes and peddles automobiles for a living—was at work on West Olympic Boulevard in Montebello when, at approximately 4:30 pm, he was told ICE officers were positioned outside his workplace. Because he is a born-and-raised American citizen, Gavidia fearlessly exited the building and strolled toward the visitors.

“Stop right there!” one of the agents barked.

“I’m an American citizen,” Gavidia said multiple times.

The agent—mask down around his neck, sans identification—shoved him into a metal gate, grabbed his arms, wrapped them around his back and said, “What hospital were you born in? What hospital were you born in?”

Understandably terrified, Gavidia couldn’t grasp the answer. “I don’t know,” he replied.

Then, this unfolded …

Meanwhile, a friend of Gavidia—also an American citizen—was accosted by ICE agents in the same raid. They slammed the man to the ground and, as a result, he blood started to ooze from his forehead. He still remains in custody, and his attorney has been barred from visitation.

Yup.

So here we are. It’s June 16, 2025, and ICE agents across America are stopping brown people because … they’re brown. That’s it. Color. The ICE agents are usually wearing masks, are never accompanied by any form of identification. They are grabbing people and placing them in vans, and driving them off to locations unknown.

And the equally grotesque part? Even after Gavidia proved he was a United States citizen, even after his phone and ID were returned, even after it was shown he has literally zero criminal record to his name … the government refused to apologize and acknowledge wrongdoing.

This, from the Times …

I feel like vomiting. I genuinely feel like vomiting. If I’m Gavidia, I get myself an attorney and I get myself a publicist, and I go network to network and website to website, telling my story, showing my video. I sue the ass off the arresting agent, sue the ass off of Tricia McLaughlin (for defamation) and sue the ass of of Kristi Noem for all levels of unjustified PTSD impact.

Hell, if I’m the Democrats I enlist Gavidia right now to lead our charge. To be our voice. Make this dude the face of both ICE injustice and ICE resistance.

This is some serious authoritarian bullshit.

Let’s hear from Brian Gavidia.