While children walked to school this morning this morning, federal Border Patrol agents conducted another immigration raid outside of a Home Depot in Westlake near MacArthur Park that has been the target of multiple immigration operations this summer.
A Sprinter van full of Border Patrol agents wearing tactical gear arrived outside the Home Depot parking lot on Wilshire Boulevard just before 7 AM, according to Zoie Matthew, an organizer with the Koreatown Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU).
At the same time, Matthew said, dozens of federal agents began rounding up people near the Union Drive entrance to the Home Depot, in front of the CARECEN Day Labor Center.
Video footage shot by another LATU member shared with L.A. TACO shows agents handcuffing a man lying on the sidewalk on his stomach with his hands behind his back, and agents struggling to take another person to the ground.
In another video, agents are seen throwing tear gas canisters and firing pepper balls at activists who were documenting the raid.