Federal immigration agents detained a volunteer food shelf delivery driver on Wednesday in the parking lot of the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center on St. Paul’s Kent Street, city-owned property that adjoins a city rec center and is temporarily hosting public library services.
Over the objections of community center staffers and legal observers, federal agents approached, handcuffed and detained Thao Xiong around 7:30 a.m. in the center parking lot, where they can be seen on video forcing him into one of three black sport utility vehicles they had driven onto the property.
“I showed them my documents already,” Xiong can be heard on video explaining to a center staffer who recorded him being led away. “He volunteers here,” the staffer tells the agents, pleadingly…