‘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.
“Surely there is a better way of enforcing their policies in a way that does not separate families or place tender aged children like this child in questionable circumstances,” said Renee Garcia, the communications director at the legal aid nonprofit ImmDef. “I think that it’s absolutely traumatizing for a child to be placed in that situation.”
Oh, there is a better way. But the cruelty is the point so you will only ever see this way and worse from this administration.
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.
I’d be honestly going insane if I was that father
Nice way of saying kidnap.
What a shithole country
Pedophilia has gotten way worse, I see. Better track that child.
Knowing the NNNIF (Nazi Nerd N***** Incel F*****), they’re probably banging em right now
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.
Nothing says “I believe movies are real life” more than what you wrote there.
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?
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
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.
