‘Devastated’ family demands answers after one-year-old driven by armed agents from LA Home Depot parking lot

‘Devastated’ family demands answers after two-year-old driven by armed agents from LA Home Depot parking lot

Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat.

The child’s grandmother said the incident had left the whole family shaken. “I am devastated by what has happened to my son and demand an explanation,” she said at a press conference on Wednesday.

The 32-year-old father was picked up during a major enforcement operation at the Home Depot in LA’s Cypress Park neighborhood on Tuesday morning. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), five undocumented immigrants were also arrested.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Were they supposed to just leave the child alone after arresting the father? If so, would they have written this same story, but lambasted the officers for leaving the toddler alone?

    The Guardian for some reason is really focusing on the part that isn’t actually bad, in a story where bad things happened.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Why did ICE arrest a US citizen? That’s not their jurisdiction. If he did commit an arrestable offense, which is unlikely, local PD should be handling that. Period.

      • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Why did ICE arrest a US citizen?

        FTA: the 32-year-old “exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement while he had a child in his car”

        • jj4211@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Again, they should have called the police with juriscidtion if that were the case. They should have, at most, detained him on scene until cops show up.

          So far I’ve seen:

          • They pulled into a car and then violently arrested the driver because “she rammed their vehicle” despite footage clearly showing they drove into hers. They didn’t want to get in trouble for causing an accident so they just made stuff up.
          • Even in the sandwich “attack” they asserted that the sandwich contents covered their vest, but footage showed it stayed in the wrapper the whole time.

          They clearly are cultivating a culture of make stuff up to blame the people they get mad at. They have zero credibility.