Feds drive off with 1-year-old girl after arresting her father in Los Angeles

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

Federal immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen and took his car with a child in the back seat and drove off from the scene of a raid in Los Angeles, advocates and family said Wednesday.

On a video provided by immigrant advocates, masked and armed agents are seen arresting a man by his car in a parking lot while his 1-year-old daughter is strapped into a car seat in the back. After the man is led away, agents are seen getting into the front of the car and driving off with the girl still inside.

The man is a U.S. citizen who was at the scene of a federal immigration raid at a Home Depot store in Los Angeles, said Lindsay Toczylowski, co-founder of Immigrant Defenders Law Center. The firm, which handles immigration cases, was contacted by community members for help reuniting the family, but isn't representing the man because he is American, she said.

“It was a dangerous act to have armed men get in a car with that child and remove her from the situation,” Toczylowski said, adding relatives picked up the child later that day from federal offices in Los Angeles. “They should have followed protocols that had the best interest of that child in mind.”




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[Irish_Dem]

1. I wouldn't trust any member of the Trump Crime Syndicate with a female child.

Or a male child either.

These men are guilty of child endangerment at the very least.
Abuse and neglect of a young child.

[ultralite001]

17. Kidnapping...

TIA

[Irish_Dem]

21. Reckless endangerment of an infant and child abuse and neglect.

[yellow dahlia]

19. My thoughts - exactly.

[AZJonnie]

2. Presumably before they kidnapped her, they asked the dad about any serious health issues

that requires regular medication, and were assured a family member would be by quickly to pick up the child?

Probably NOT though, esp. if these agents were virtually untrained, as so many apparently are.

Seems like in this situation there's no reason if they MUST arrest the father they cannot simply have him stay in the car, and call someone to get the baby directly, so she's not traumatized by someone(s) suddenly replacing her daddy in the front seat and driving them away. 1 yo is old enough to where that kind of thing could scare a child

[PSPS]

10. All they care about is getting that $3K bounty from ICE for every person they bring in.

[Leghorn21]

3. I hate these slobs with every inch of my being

pure H A T R E D is boiling my soul
goddammit

[Gaugamela]

9. Agreed. I say we deport them to Russia. Putin can send them to the front.

[Blue Owl]

4. Why is an AMBER ALERT not issued immediately????

[NotHardly]

5. Good idea for every time this sh*t happens

[yellow dahlia]

20. Good point.

[republianmushroom]

6. The Republican Gestapo now kidnapping children.

The puppy killer must be soooo proud of her Gestapo.

[Drum]

8. I'd like to see the core paperwork on that one, every step.

[Bayard]

11. I don't see any video

We are supposed to take their word for it that this U.S. citizen was throwing rocks at them? I don't think its a crime to carry a hammer at a Home Depot. Maybe that's what he was there to buy.

Regardless, they kidnapped a one year old baby, probably because her daddy is hispanic. Charge them.

[PatSeg]

12. That is horrifying

As a mother and a grandmother, that is the thing of nightmares.

[Seinan Sensei]

13. In what universe is it even conceivable

that unidentified, masked men would jump in a car and - with impunity - simply drive away with a female toddler in the back seat?

And that some in our midst would deem this as the new normal, a sign of the times?

Try that with my grandchild, asshole.

I’ll show you a new normal.

…

[Picaro]

14. Kidnapping

They kidnapped a one year old and her father is actually a citizen. These people are animals.

[Picaro]

15. Kidnapping

They kidnapped a one year old and her father is actually a citizen. These people are animals.

[KPN]

16. Deleting because same point was made in post immediately above

[Mz Pip]

18. The ACLU will be busy.

I’m going to up my membership. They are going to need all the support they can get.