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NextImg:Anti-ICE protester roasted for homemade tactical suit, including leaf blower: ‘Bad cosplay of a minion’

An animated anti-ICE protester is being mocked online for wearing an eye-catching homemade tactical suit to Los Angeles riots — including a bicycle helmet, goggles and a leaf blower.

The unidentified woman was impossible to miss as she was filmed yelling into a megaphone in a bright yellow helmet and clutching the large Ryobi leaf blower.

“This is our city and this was Mexico,” yelled the woman, who said she was 45 years old. “You can’t kick us out of the land that was ours,” she yelled.

Asked why she was carrying a leaf blower, she said it was to protect herself from tear gas used by law enforcement — and “to blow back at those motherf–kers.”

The woman arrived at the protest in a helmet, goggles and chest protector. YouTube/Nick Shirley
She also brought a leaf blower, which she was said was to blow away tear gas.
She also brought a leaf blower, which she was said was to blow away tear gas. YouTube/Nick Shirley

The woman’s makeshift protective fit quickly sparked ridicule online.

“Why is she doing a bad cosplay of a minion from Despicable Me?” a teacher, David Johnson, jabbed in an X post in response to the clip.

“Omg this has to be a satire,” another commented, while someone else asked: “Is she ready to take on armed forces with a leaf blower?”

Another X user joked that if she knows that California was briefly part of Mexico in the 19th century, “she understands the concept of nations and borders then.”

California and Los Angeles were part of Spain before Mexico gained its independence in 1821. Mexico was forced to surrender the land decades later after the US’s victory in the Mexican-American War in 1848.

Dozens of people in Los Angeles have been arrested since protests erupted on Friday in response to ICE raids.

Mayor Karen Bass issued a curfew in the city’s downtown area on Tuesday night in an attempt to curb the demonstrations, which have seen several cars — including police vehicles — torched by protesters.