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Trump's promised ICE raids have begun

Another deeply disturbing video has surfaced from the Border Patrol clash in Evanston, IL, just outside Chicago.

As the agents move to leave the scene of the accident, bystanders are filming. One agent is standing between the side of the vehicle and the crowd, pepper spray already in his hand.

No one is blocking the car.
No one is threatening him.

And as people are actively stepping back, he holds the canister up and blasts pepper spray directly into the eyes of an older man who is simply filming on his phone.

You hear the man’s agonized yell as the group scatters.

All of it caught on camera.
None of it justified.

And once again, the only people facing danger that day were the ones standing near Border Patrol, exercising their first amendment rights… not the ones wearing the badge.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1989428444023734529
 
plague311 said:
Some stories really do have happy endings. He won't be missed.
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Apparently, that's not quite true.

www.independent.co.uk

Border Patrol agent who went viral over arrest video died of overdose, lawyer says

Isaiah Hodgson, 29, passed away in August after appearing in widely seen clip of a U.S. citizen being brutally detained in California and then being arrested himself over drunken incident a month later
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

A GoFundMe account set up to help Hodgson’s family meet his funeral expenses described him as “a great man, brother, uncle, and son” and was 96 percent of the way towards its $18,000 fundraising goal at the time of writing.
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shemp said:
Apparently, that's not quite true.

www.independent.co.uk

Border Patrol agent who went viral over arrest video died of overdose, lawyer says

Isaiah Hodgson, 29, passed away in August after appearing in widely seen clip of a U.S. citizen being brutally detained in California and then being arrested himself over drunken incident a month later
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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A GoFundMe account set up to help Hodgson’s family meet his funeral expenses described him as “a great man, brother, uncle, son and drug addict.” and was 96 percent of the way towards its $18,000 fundraising goal at the time of writing.
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FTFT
 
Andy_Ross said:
Homeland Security
@DHSgov
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Like clockwork, violent rioters have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility to demand the release of some of the worst human beings on planet earth.
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ICE are being held prisoners in their own facility?
Andy_Ross said:
Get a job you imbecilic morons
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They already have jobs, but they're still trying to figure out how to get out of their facility.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
A message from the government

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Womp womp, cry all you want. These criminal illegal aliens aren’t getting released.

Like clockwork, violent rioters have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility to demand the release of some of the worst human beings on planet earth.

Get a job you imbecilic morons

https://twitter.com/x/status/1989402784316493957
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There was a time, not so long ago, that I would have questioned whether a tweet like this could have actually come from a presumably responsible government agency- I would have said no, that has to be a fake, sounding like the sort of resentful teenage edgelord who thinks it's cool to flip double birds while his picture is being taken just isn't the sort of thing our government would officially indulge in. Times have certainly changed though- with an idiot like Trump at its head, this has all the class that I've come to expect from our present administration. These people aren't conservatives with policies that they are willing to debate, they're just reactionaries with a bitterness they insist on as the only policy that matters.
 
turingtest said:
There was a time, not so long ago, that I would have questioned whether a tweet like this could have actually come from a presumably responsible government agency- I would have said no, that has to be a fake, sounding like the sort of resentful teenage edgelord who thinks it's cool to flip double birds while his picture is being taken just isn't the sort of thing our government would officially indulge in. Times have certainly changed though- with an idiot like Trump at its head, this has all the class that I've come to expect from our present administration. These people aren't conservatives with policies that they are willing to debate, they're just reactionaries with a bitterness they insist on as the only policy that matters.
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Yep, that was similar to my reaction. They sound more like a fifteen-year-old gamer flaming their opponents, but in this case there appears to be little prospect of them rage-quitting or grown-ups confiscating their Xbox.
 
Absolutely this. There is no way on earth anything so crass and juvenile as this would have been permitted in any official communication until Trump dragged everything down to his level, and I expect the sender would have been dismissed for gravely damaging the standing and reputation of the agency.

Nobody would have believed this was real. Now, even if this one turns out to be fake, the damage is done.
 
I've complained of this before. It's bad enough we're being dragged into dystopia, but the insult to injury is that it's not even a dignified dystopia. In fiction, even the worst dystopias have dignity and class. Ming the Merciless speaks like a gentleman. Emperor Palpatine doesn't need a Marine to hold his butt when he climbs steps. Sauron never tweets childish insults about his enemies. These people who have seized power are churls. Villains without class.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I've complained of this before. It's bad enough we're being dragged into dystopia, but the insult to injury is that it's not even a dignified dystopia. In fiction, even the worst dystopias have dignity and class. Ming the Merciless speaks like a gentleman. Emperor Palpatine doesn't need a Marine to hold his butt when he climbs steps. Sauron never tweets childish insults about his enemies. These people who have seized power are churls. Villains without class.
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yeah, fiction is often more interesting than the real thing. i bet all those villians had some kind of ideological goal besides stealing money too?

wait until we get to the mass suffering part.
 
Yeah, they're a bunch of liars.

The Trump administration has released the names of 607 people detained by immigration agents, and whose arrests might have violated a court order, and only 16 of them have been identified by the federal government as a "high public safety risk" because of their alleged criminal histories, according to court documents.

The list includes names, country of citizenship, and whether they've been deported, remain in custody, or voluntarily deported.
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The list is topped by 16 people deemed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a "high public safety risk" because of their alleged criminal histories. Charges include aggravated assault, aggravated DUI, domestic battery and kidnapping. One person was deemed a national security risk, and another was identified as a "foreign criminal," but no details were given.

The government was required to provide the list in court as a judge prepares to potentially release most of those people by next Friday, because their arrests potentially violated the terms of a court order restricting warrantless arrest
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