Oh, how smug and sanctimonious the terminally-online left was on Wednesday afternoon when a Washington, D.C.-based reporter posted a video of a Hispanic man being arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and federal law enforcement agencies. The only context given by the reporter was that the poor man just wanted to be with his family. 

Already incensed over President Trump’s law enforcement takeover of D.C.—and ever-so-prone to taking things at face value and not asking questions—a stream of leftist voices immediately fired up their X accounts to condemn the arrest. Everyone’s favorite Democrat stooge, Jessica Tarlov, showed her commitment to willful ignorance by retweeting the video and dramatically adding, “The cruelty is always the point.”

BREAKING: Just saw DC Police + federal agents detain a man on the National Mall. He appeared to try to escape, then was quickly tackled to the ground by several agents + was screaming in Spanish “please, I’m not a criminal, I work here, I want to be with my family” @nbcwashington pic.twitter.com/56IlXEvYbN

— Aimee Cho (@AimeeCho4) August 20, 2025

There’s just one thing: the man being arrested, David Perez-Teofani, a Mexican illegal, wasn’t the hard-working family man the left and Jessica Tarlov so desperately wanted him to be. As RedState’s Bonchie reported, Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Director of Homeland Security, quickly set the record straight by revealing Perez-Teofani had been arrested in 2024 for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 15. Not only that, he had illegally entered the U.S. three times and had ignored “a final order of removal.”