DHS made social media posts out of a protester’s arrest at gunpoint. Christian Cerna speaks out about the lengthy prosecution that derailed his life
Christian Cerna, 28, was driving with his partner and their two young children through Los Angeles, when two vehicles rammed his car and a group of men jumped out and trained their guns on them.
It was 11 June 2025, and as Cerna exited his vehicle with his hands raised, he realized the masked men weren’t street criminals as he initially feared. They were Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Cerna, a carpenter, is a US citizen and southern California native. But ICE was targeting him after a border agent reported that Cerna had “assaulted” him during a rowdy anti-ICE protest days earlier. The officers arresting Cerna detonated flash-bang grenades and pointed assault rifles at his car, with his infant and toddler inside.
It was… Well I can’t say subtle, but it wasn’t an overt mirror of America up to season 3. Seasons 4 and 5 have been a constant sledgehammer to the face.
I think we’re up to episode 4 or 5 of the newest season and I’m really curious if they filmed a lot of this before or after the literal exact same events happened in real life. Things like Trump as Jesus.
I suppose this administration is just using the Nazi’s fascist playbook, so it’s all spelled out for us already.