Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained people at a bus stop in Pasadena on Thursday morning, June 18, according to video and witness accounts.

Video taken from inside Winchell’s Donut House near Orange Grove Boulevard and Los Robles Avenue showed ICE agents detaining at least two men sitting at the bus stop outside. The men appeared to be handcuffed and surrounded by armed agents wearing face coverings. The incident occurred at around 6 a.m., according to witnesses. The LA Metro stop itself, Line 662, is part of a loop route that serves Altadena and Pasadena.

By around 8:45 a.m., a group of about 20 people had gathered at the intersection outside Dena Burgers having heard about the ICE activity.

Pasadena resident John Williams, who works with local nonprofit The Center for Restorative Justice, said he was standing outside Winchell’s this morning when he heard a commotion of honking on Orange Grove Boulevard.

He said two unmarked ICE vehicles were stopped at the red light waiting to turn left onto Los Robles Avenue. A member of the public tried photographing the license plate when, Williams said, an agent got out of the vehicle and pointed what appeared to be a gun at the person photographing.

“When he draws we all start yelling, ‘Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!,’” he said.

Williams said the car drove through a red light to turn left onto Los Robles. Another resident, who wished to remain anonymous, recorded what appeared to be ICE agents stopped in front of Urth Caffé after the interaction at Orange Grove and Los Robles.

Around 9 a.m., Pasadena Police officers arrived at the intersection and took a report from witnesses.

City of Pasadena spokesperson Lisa Derderian said the city was looking into the incident, but said ICE does not coordinate with Pasadena Police.

ICE officials could not be immediately reached for comment about the detentions or the interaction with the public.

Hundreds of people have been detained by federal agents since the Trump administration’s ramped-up immigration enforcement began on June 6.

That enforcement has led to dozens of workers detained by ICE officers in a series of raids that include in LA’s fashion district and at Home Depot and other store parking lots in Southern California, including in the cities of Whittier, Santa Fe Springs, Pico Rivera, Irvine and Downey.

On Tuesday, federal agents conducted immigration raids throughout the city of Pico Rivera on Tuesday, prompting the city’s top administrator’s concern about “increasingly concerned about the nature and tone of these recent actions.”

Some residents, in response, organized an early-evening protest.

Todd Lyons, the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended his tactics last week against criticism that authorities are being too heavy-handed. He has said ICE is averaging about 1,600 arrests per day and that the agency has arrested “dangerous criminals.”

Amid massive protests over his policies last weekend, the Trump administration directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels, after Trump expressed alarm about the impact aggressive enforcement is having on those industries, the Associated Press reported, citing a U.S. official familiar with the matter who spoke only on condition of anonymity.

But at the same time, he appears to have doubled down on Democrat-run cities, such as in and around L.A, where dozens of smaller cities are home to many immigrant families and businesses that rely on them. That ramp-up appears to be in pursuit of a quota “to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,” Trump said on social media.

The raids, however, have sparked strong rebukes in an area where advocates say many who are being apprehended are not the violent criminals that Trump promised would be the focus of federal enforcement.

“These raids have targeted our immigrant neighbors in parking lots, Home Depot, grocery stores, car washes, swap meets, churches, and other places of work where people are simply trying to make a living,” said Supervisor Hilda Solis on Tuesday. “These are hardworking individuals, business owners, abuelitos, fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers whose removal have already had devastating consequences to our communities and our families.”

The result has been fear generated in L.A. County, where nearly one in every five Angelenos are either undocumented or live with someone who is, is a “man-made disaster,” said county Supervisor Holly Mitchell.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Freelance writer Julianna Lozada contributed to this report.