‘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.
The DHS has alleged that the 32-year-old “exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement while he had a child in his car”.
I assume every single one of ICE’s self-jusitfying stories is false, until proven otherwise.
Media has consistently been putting too much weight into statements and what people say as if it were facts.
Ok, so their claim is that he’s a hero? Got it.
What a shithole country
It’s always been like that.
Pedophilia has gotten way worse, I see. Better track that child.
I’d be honestly going insane if I was that father
I realize this is a weird thing to get caught up on, but I’m gonna guess they didnt have a car seat for that toddler, and that enrages me almost as much as their mere existence
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.
Police usually call a family member or something to come pick up the child at the scene or, at the worst, call CPS. Can’t even hold themselves to US cop standards.
“Your kid is at the station” is a pretty common way to do just that.
I’m sorry, you think it’s normal for federal agents to drive away in a citizens car WITH a child in it?
Not to mention it was a 1 year old, and the family doesn’t know what happened with the child during the HOURS they had here I their custody.
Cops don’t even drive away in your car, even if it’s evidence. They have to have it towed.
But they’re not cops! They’re masked ice agents ✨ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Doesn’t that mean they have the presidents permission to break the rules?
Yeah, just imagine what would happen if he had gotten in an accident. Even ignoring abducting the child, can you imagine what a mess that insurance report would be?
I’m sure if it happened to them they would be totally cool about it and completely understanding with the unidentified masked men taking off in their car with their 2yo in the back seat. I mean, who wouldn’t be? Lol
Nothing says “I believe movies are real life” more than what you wrote there.
2yo? They have people to take care of children at each station or do they just lock toddlers up until someone shows up?
When the kid has been arrested, yes.
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.
It fucking is now thanks to the lawles fanta fascista running the show.
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”
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.
According to SCOTUS cops are professional liars
First, in most cases these are unidentified masked men. You don’t know foe sure if they are real government agents jumping out of an unmarked car. These kind of dangerous situations are being intentionally provoked.
