The Brief
- A group of men detained a street vendor outside a Ladera Heights Home Depot earlier this week. The incident was caught on camera.
- The woman’s family has not heard from her since, and those trying to help her family haven’t been able to locate her through federal resources.
- The incident is part of a growing number of people who have, as activists are saying, been “disappeared.”
LOS ANGELES – New video shows what appears to be federal immigration officials prying a street vendor clinging to a tree at the Ladera Heights Home Depot, ignoring onlookers’ demands for ID or an arrest warrant. The woman is just the latest who activists say has been “disappeared.”
What we know:
The arrest happened on Monday, June 23, just before 11 a.m. Two masked men chased a street vendor down the road before she grabbed on to a tree. Onlookers took video of the interaction, demanding the men identify themselves. More eventually showed up, ripped the her off the tree and shoved her into a car before taking off.
What they’re saying:…