‘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.

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    13 hours 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.

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      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.

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      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.

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          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.

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              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?

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              But they’re not cops! They’re masked ice agents ✨ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

              Doesn’t that mean they have the presidents permission to break the rules?

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            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

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      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.