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CBS News
8 hours ago
- CBS News
Small crowd confronts immigration agents at L.A. County shopping center
Federal immigration agents deployed smoke grenades on a small crowd while attempting to detain a man in a Los Angeles County shopping center on Friday. The confrontation between Homeland Security Investigations and the small group of bystanders happened in the Pico Rivera Towne Center. It's the same place where Customs and Border Patrol arrested a U.S. citizen for allegedly punching an agent attempting to detain a man on Tuesday. In the most recent immigration operation, witnesses said agents detained a man who had just walked out of the Starbucks with his coffee. A woman carrying a child and a man confronted the agents, who eventually used a smoke grenade after the man started yelling at the officers. A canister was left at the shopping center. "You could feel the overpowering smell in your eyes, throat and nose," a woman who works nearby said. Brianna Lemus showed up at the same shopping center with her friends when they heard the agents were there. The group surrounded one truck they believed was involved in the operation. "We jumped in the car and made quick signs on my trunk, just drove around honking, letting the whole neighborhood know they're here," Lemus said. The City of Pico Rivera said Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles were seen throughout the community, including the City Hall parking lot. City officials asked the agents to leave. Local leaders said the city and the L.A. County Sheriff's Department do not support nor participate in any federal immigration enforcement operations. A man who wanted to stay anonymous said federal agents detained his uncle at a nearby construction site hours after the confrontation in the Pico Rivera Towne Center. "They pulled him over," he said. "Detained him and took him away ... I see them put him in an ICE van." Construction site manager Luis Montoya took cell phone video of vans pulling away from the construction site after he witnessed agents handcuff a man and asked one of his workers for an ID. "They stood out here for a little while," Montoya said. "They wanted to come inside the property. I told them I was the person in charge here right now and that they didn't have my permission to come inside." More cell phone video shows agents talking to two men at a nearby Superior Grocers store, but it's unclear if they were detained. Some residents said agents are terrorizing their community and impacting their daily lives.
CNN
11 hours ago
- Politics
- CNN
Why Fareed Zakaria thinks Trump has ‘FOMO' foreign policy
Why Fareed Zakaria thinks Trump has 'FOMO' foreign policy CNN's Fareed Zakaria analyzes what may be motivating President Trump's foreign policy: a fear of missing out. 00:44 - Source: CNN Automated CNN Shorts 11 videos Why Fareed Zakaria thinks Trump has 'FOMO' foreign policy CNN's Fareed Zakaria analyzes what may be motivating President Trump's foreign policy: a fear of missing out. 00:44 - Source: CNN Collins on one of the 'most striking' lines from Trump CNN's Kaitlan Collins points out one of the most notable moments in President Donald Trump's address to Congress. 01:09 - Source: CNN Border patrol agents arrest US citizen standing up for detained maintenance worker A US citizen has been arrested after a physical altercation with immigration agents after they detained a maintenance worker at a shopping center in Pico Rivera, California. 01:33 - Source: CNN Sen. Smith reveals what she told Sen. Lee over post Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) revealed to Kaitlan Collins what she told Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) over his incendiary social media post. 02:28 - Source: CNN Why Trump rebuked his own intel chief CNN's Kristen Holmes reports on how Tulsi Gabbard's standing inside the Trump administration has diminished in recent weeks. President Donald Trump has come to see the director of national intelligence as "off message" when it comes to the conflict in the Middle East, according to one senior White House advisor. 02:04 - Source: CNN Inside the room of the Geneva-Iran talks Talks between European and Iranian officials in Geneva, Switzerland were "very tense" at first, but then became much more positive. CNN's Matthew Chance takes us inside the room where these talks took place. 02:04 - Source: CNN Trump says his intel chief Tulsi Gabbard is 'wrong' about Iran President Donald Trump took direct aim at his director of national intelligence, saying that Tulsi Gabbard 'is wrong' about Iran's efforts toward obtaining a nuclear weapon, as CNN has reported that Gabbard's standing inside the Trump administration has diminished. 00:21 - Source: CNN Why aren't tariffs causing inflation? For the past year, many economists warned that tariffs would increase prices, but inflation is lower today than when President Trump took office. CNN's Matt Egan breaks down why this might be the case and how economists expect that to change in the coming months. 01:09 - Source: CNN What is a heat dome? The hottest temperatures of the year so far will soon reach the eastern half of the United States as a brutal heat dome starts to build over the weekend. Dangerous, record-breaking heat will impact millions next week. CNN's Tyler Mauldin explains. 00:52 - Source: CNN Could there be radioactive fallout in Iran? Laura Holgate, Former US Ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations in Vienna weighs in on the likelihood of nuclear fallout if the US strikes the Fordow nuclear enrichment plant in Iran. 02:34 - Source: CNN Trump vowed to make Juneteenth a holiday. This year he ignored it President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Juneteenth this year to criticize the number of 'non-working holidays.' CNN's Abby Phillip talks about the notable change from when the president vowed to make it a holiday. 01:07 - Source: CNN
CNN
14 hours ago
- CNN
Border patrol agents arrest US citizen standing up for detained maintenance worker
A US citizen has been arrested after a physical altercation with immigration agents after they detained a maintenance worker at a shopping center in Pico Rivera, California.
CBS News
26-05-2025
- CBS News
68-year-old man identified as victim of Pico Rivera homicide
Authorities have identified the victim of a homicide in Pico Rivera last Wednesday as they continue their investigation. On May 21 a little after 6 a.m., deputies were dispatched to the 8300 block of Telegraph Road near the 5 Freeway after learning of an unresponsive man in the area, according to a press release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Upon arrival, they found the victim dead at the scene. He has been identified as 68-year-old Alfredo Escamilla by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner. While investigating the matter, deputies discovered evidence leading to the arrest of a man living at a residence in the area. He has not yet been identified. The suspect, in his 40s, was booked on suspicion of murder and was being held in lieu of $2 million bail. Investigators are preparing to present the case to the district attorney's office for filing of charges in coming days. Investigators are still working to determine a motive and what led up to the deadly attack. Anyone who knows more is asked to contact LASD's Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Lopez: In Pico Rivera senior league, where love of the game never gets old, softball is 'better than medicine'
Big Red outfielder Art Montano hustles toward first base but is thrown out during a game against the Force in the Go-Getter league. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Infielder Eddie Castorena, 75, wore two braces under his Old Spice uniform, one for his knee and one for his back. Big Red catcher Tony Spallino, 67, was moving pretty well behind the plate, hoping he won't need a second hip replacement. Advertisement His teammate Agustin Quezada, 83, limped through the dugout between innings, leaning on his bat as if it were a cane. 'When I first started, it was like, man, it smells like Bengay here,' said Big Red utilityman Ruben Enriquez. But there is no glory in compromise, and no thrill like blasting a ball into the gap and circling the bases, no matter how many paramedics it might take to get you home. So the games go on every Thursday at Smith Park in Pico Rivera, home of the Go-Getter softball league. 'I never played baseball before. Never. I learned here, and I love it,' said Isabel Enriquez, 73, who plays several positions for Big Red and made a sure-handed catch of a towering fly ball to left in a game against the Force. Advertisement Reflexes are generally good and the bats still have some pop in them, for the most part, especially for players closer to 50 than 80. When it comes to chasing after a ball or sprinting the basepaths, the effort is there, even if the feet can't always deliver what the heart desires. Big Red hitter Tony Spallino, 67, walks away in frustration after making an out during a game against the Force in the Go-Getter league. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 'I hope when I'm their age … I'll be flexible and be able to run down the basepath like that,' said Pico Rivera Mayor Johnny Garcia, who stopped by to take in some of the action in a league that's more than 30 years young. Lorenzo Sanchez, who pitched Rolling Thunder to a 14-2 win over the Warriors, wore a boyish smile and looked nothing like 83. He said that in 15 years of lacing up his cleats, he could only recall one minor muscle pull. Advertisement 'I'm in good condition,' Sanchez boasted. 'I try to emphasize to my new players, go out with the grandkids, do some running and throw the ball back and forth,' said Rolling Thunder manager Gil Perez, 76. 'Some of them do and some of them don't.' Perez and his wife, Deborah, 71, who plays catcher, work out regularly. 'I'm doing 2½-minute planks,' said Deborah, referring to the exercise in which you get into a push-up position and hold it for as long as you can. 'So my core is pretty tight.' Several players encouraged me to get out of the press box and onto the field. I'd love to, I said. But I've had two knee replacements. Advertisement That drew a sharp, one-word response from Dichosa 'Dee' Quezada, Agustin's wife and a loyal spectator who watches every game from a lawn chair behind the backstop. 'So?' she asked with a withering glare. A game in the Go-Getter league. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Read more: Half a century on the beat, and thank you very much I wouldn't be the first, Dichosa told me, saying there was a guy with two knee replacements on a team from Anaheim. In years past, one former Go-Getter used a walker to get to the field, swung a mean bat, and let a pinch-runner take over after she banged out a hit. And then there's Spallino, with the hip replacement, who told me he tried to come back too soon after his 2017 surgery. A little more rest did the trick and that hip is still holding up, Spallino said, 'but I'm having problems with the other one now.' Advertisement The players have a sense of reassurance in knowing that former softballer Lupe Diaz, a retired registered nurse, comes to all the games with her first aid kit. Once, several years ago, there weren't enough tools in that kit. Rolling Thunder pitcher Lorenzo Sanchez, 83, watches the flight of the ball while batting during a Pico Rivera Co-ed Senior Softball League game at Smith Field. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times Deborah Perez, Rolling Thunder catcher, sets up behind the plate at the Pico Rivera Co-ed Senior Softball League at Smith Field. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times 'I remember it like it was yesterday,' Diaz said. 'I was catcher, and I was getting ready to throw the ball back when I saw this player lying on the ground in the outfield.' Diaz raced out and began CPR on the fallen fielder, whose heart had given out, while someone called 911. 'I brought him back and they carried him to the dugout,' she said. The player recovered at the hospital but died about two weeks later, as Diaz recalls. Advertisement On Thursday, Big Red outfielder Art Montano, 77, swung at a pitch and missed. He ended up hammering a sharp single to right, but he was still frustrated by the earlier whiff. 'My vision's not like it used to be,' Montano said, and sometimes the brain isn't reacting quickly enough to messages sent by the eyes. 'Let's say the ball is pitched, and you're waiting on it, and the brain is telling you it's right there, but you can't pull the trigger.' Big Red pitcher Agustin Quezada, 83, faces off against the Force at Smith Park. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) In the Rolling Thunder rout of the Warriors, outfielder Uvaldo Davila showed off a slick glove and a strong arm, and after banging out a hit, he scampered around the bases to score. But back in the dugout, he said he's been battling a big challenge. Advertisement 'I was diagnosed with Parkinson's about eight years ago,' said Davila, 64, who told me his hand tremors are getting worse, and his neurologist told him he may soon have some balance issues. 'I'm taking medicine,' Davila said, and he intends to keep playing as long as he can, because softball is 'better than medicine.' The Force, this season's strongest team, showed no mercy on Thursday, routing Big Red by a score of 21-1 to improve to 8-0. Read more: Benny Wasserman handled the heat -- in life and in the batting cage 'We have a lot of good hitters and no drama,' said Force journeyman Lee Wabash, 75. 'In the past, there were a lot of arguments. But this team has it together.' Advertisement At one point, with nobody on base, a Force batter hit a routine grounder. Big Red's second baseman fielded it cleanly, but threw to second instead of first. 'Senior moment,' a disappointed Big Red teammate muttered in the dugout. In the sixth inning, several Big Red players noticed that their pitcher had gone missing. They looked around and spotted him in the parking lot, pedaling away on his bicycle. 'Rick!' one player called out, to no avail. 'He's going home,' said another. Agustin Quezada often uses his bat as a cane. At 83, he pitches and plays infield in the Go-Getter league. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) But two games remain in the regular season, so there's still time to find a groove. And then all six teams qualify for the playoffs. Advertisement Anything can happen, said Ruben Enriquez, and just showing up to get some exercise and be with friends is a victory in itself. 'Better to play,' he said, 'than to rot away at home.' Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
