After high-profile incidents of immigration agents blasting their way into people’s homes, Long Beach’s state senator has proposed a law limiting when federal agents and other police can use devices like flashbang grenades, door-breaching explosives and chemical irritants such as tear gas.

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Gonzalez cited two instances she said were particularly egregious, one where agents blasted through the door of a Huntington Park home and later when a flashbang was used on demonstrators at a playground in Maywood.

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“Last year was a reaction to a lot of what happened,” Gonzalez said, referring to the blitz of immigration enforcement that began in the Los Angeles region in June. “Now we feel like we’re not in reaction mode anymore. We are on offense, and we’re going to continue on offense.”

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