On Tuesday, ABC World News Tonight defended the arrest of an illegal immigrant who attacked ICE agents with a weed whacker while running through the streets of southern California. Despite a video showing the illegal alien chasing agents with the weed whacker and attempting to break into a car at a stop light, they criticized the use of what they dubbed a “violent border patrol detention”. Here was correspondent Trevor Ault:
Tonight, a controversial, violent Border Patrol detention caught on camera in California. Masked agents holding down forty-eight-year-old Narcisco Baranco in the Santa Ana street, repeatedly punching him while he’s on the ground. Baranco heard screaming and crying, resisting as they take him into a van. Baranco is the father of three U.S. Marines, approached while working a landscaping job. His son, Alejandro, a Marine veteran, now calling his dad's detention frustrating and inhumane.
ABC carefully showed only snippets of a video, and was sure to omit the parts where Baranco was seen swinging a weed whacker at agent’s faces before trying to enter the car.
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