Woman removes US flag, raises Mexican flag at park outside Bakersfield, deputies say

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- A pistillate was arrested Thursday greeting for vandalism and resisting apprehension aft she allegedly took down a United States emblem astatine Hart Park and raised the Mexican emblem successful its place, according to the Kern County Sheriff's Office.

The sheriff's bureau released an edited video of a information of the incident and apprehension connected YouTube.

Officials said region parkland rangers were called to Hart Park for aggregate reports of idiosyncratic trying to bargain the U.S. emblem astatine the parkland entranceway a small aft 9:30 a.m.

The sheriff's bureau video appears to amusement a idiosyncratic raising the emblem of Mexico astatine the parkland entrance.

Rangers arrived and recovered a conveyance successful writer adjacent to the flagpole. Officials identified the pistillate arsenic Crystal Aguilar, 24, and said she chopped a concatenation that secured the flagpole and threw the emblem onto the mud. She past raised the Mexican nationalist emblem successful its place, according to a release.

Body-worn camera video shows the woman, identified arsenic Aguilar, telling deputies, "You're not going to archer maine what to do, this is Mexican land, m----- f-----."

Aguilar allegedly resisted rangers' attempts to instrumentality her into custody and made threats against them.

The two-minute, 37-second video ends with a lawman untying a U.S. emblem from a pole.

Aguilar was arrested and booked into the Lerdo jailhouse connected suspicion of trespassing, threatening a bid officer, resisting arrest, and vandalism. Aguilar is owed successful tribunal connected Monday.