Pirate's Cove

Other than a quick mention in the subhead, the NY Times buries the actual facts in favor of emotion

Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
The child was later reunited with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed immigrant rights groups. The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a gun possession charge.

At first, the encounter seemed typical of the kinds of immigration raids that have roiled the nation’s biggest cities. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents descended on a Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles this week and detained a Latino man. They secured his hands behind his back, and the man, later identified as Dennis Quiñonez, leaned against his Chevy hatchback.

Immigrant rights activists stood nearby, taking video and shouting at the agents, who were masked and heavily armed.

But the situation, on Tuesday, soon took an unusual turn, according to interviews with four witnesses and footage shared with The New York Times by an immigrant rights group with permission from the person who took it.

Mr. Quiñonez was taken away to another vehicle. An armed agent slid into the driver’s seat of his Chevy.

This would probably be a good spot for a non-Activist news outlet to mention what he was arrested for

“There’s a baby in the back!” an onlooker shouted. Minutes later, someone cried out, “They’re about to drive!”

Another agent, wearing body armor and carrying a rifle, got into the passenger seat.

Mr. Quiñonez’s daughter — who relatives said later is a few months shy of her second birthday — looked on, wide-eyed from her car seat. Then the driver reversed the car and drove away.

The girl was reunited with her grandmother later in the day. But immigrant rights groups say the episode underscores how federal agents across the country have pushed legal boundaries, sometimes in the presence of children, as they carry out the Trump administration’s agenda to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

That’s just straight emotion. How many times have other perps been busted in front of their kids? I witnessed this years ago and when the mother and her friend were swarmed with cops because she stole a car and credit cards.

According to an affidavit by federal authorities, Mr. Quiñonez, a 32-year-old U.S. citizen, was charged with illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition as someone who had previously been convicted of domestic violence. He was convicted of a misdemeanor for injuring a spouse or cohabitant in 2014, the affidavit said.

Mr. Quiñonez was held at a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles until Thursday afternoon, when he was released on $10,000 bond. He is set to be arraigned on Dec. 1.

Oh, so, he’s a bad guy and a repeat offender. Huh.

Tuesday’s events began when Customs and Border Protection agents arrested five undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Federal authorities said in the affidavit that Mr. Quiñonez got out of his car while holding a hammer “in a threatening manner” about 100 feet away from them. As agents started to drive away, they said they saw Mr. Quiñonez throw two “rock-like” objects at the vehicle before getting back into his own car. After a team of agents boxed in Mr. Quiñonez’s car, he got out and approached agents, who said they believed he had tried to assault them.

Don’t start none, won’t be none.

Mr. Quiñonez did not want to be separated from his daughter, and he initially gave agents permission to drive his car with both of them to another location, away from a growing crowd, according to federal authorities. But after they found a gun on the floor of the passenger’s side, they decided to transport Mr. Quiñonez in a C.B.P. vehicle.

Wait, I thought Democrats were against people illegally owning guns?