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A video recorded last week has ignited outrage online after it captured ICE agents violently arresting two brothers in South Norwalk, Connecticut, in broad daylight without producing a warrant. The men, identified as Ricardo Chavez and his brother, reportedly hold legal status to live and work in the United States.

The footage (credit @alwaysfilmthepolice) shows plainclothes ICE agents forcibly detaining the men in a public area. Witnesses say the agents refused to provide identification or present a warrant when asked, instead resorting to physical force and a taser to subdue the brothers before hauling them away. They also allegedly damaged their vehicle.

Community members who know the Chavez family insist that both men are law-abiding residents with valid documentation. “They work, they pay taxes, and they belong here,” said one South Norwalk resident who witnessed the arrest. “This was nothing short of a kidnapping.”

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250820120402/https://thenerdstash.com/masked-ice-agents-smash-car-beat-and-arrest-local-father-without-warrant-in-connecticut-another-day-in-dystopian-hell/

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 232 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I have no idea how not a single ICE agent has been killed yet?
Apparently the good guy with a gun is a myth.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 170 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because they don't try this shit with people who look like they can hit back, most of those have real arrest warrants on them so they can leave that for local and state cops to deal with and just focus on ambushing students and day laborers and people with small children

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Same comment:

I have no idea how not a single ICE agent has been killed yet?
Apparently the good guy with a gun is a myth.

I am low key shocked that some group of vigilantes hasn’t straight up ambushed a pack of ICEheads yet.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago

Benjamin Song, an alleged ringleader, is a former Marine Corps reservist who trained left-wing activists for close-quarters combat and large-scale gunfights, associates said.

Damn... I hope there are more people like this, and that there's a good reason why we never hear about them.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's a poor strategy and most people understand that on some level. Either because of the civil rights movement and understanding the value of the moral high ground or because people understand they want violence to declare martial law. That just isn't the play.

Also Luigi isn't a myth.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I won't comment on whether political violence is the right thing to do, but if you think the civil rights movement was peaceful you've been taught some disgustingly whitewashed history. Ever heard of the Black Panthers? They got in firefights with the police all the time, even though many would later pretend that MLK was the only and unanimous voice for all of America's oppressed.

Also the whole Civil Rights movement can be traced to the Civil War, instigated in part by people like John Brown whose whole thing was massacring slavers in the name of God.

This rewriting of history of America as a nation of peaceful citizens who got their Rights by Asking Nicely fucking pisses me off.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

MLK was the only and unanimous voice for all of America’s oppressed.

And MLK himself is extremely whitewashed. His focus on economic justice and anti-imperialism are typically left out of the stories told about him in media. As well as the fact that he was broadly unpopular with Americans in his time.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tell you what the real myth is. Thinking they need violence to declare martial law. They clearly don't. So that's an argument people need to stop making.

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

It's possible they have, and those incidents get suppressed for fear of encouraging imitators - similar to Luigi Mangione.

News sites want you scared, but not angry.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 90 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The fuck is the point of 2a if not to resist this?

[–] arin@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That's what the 2a is for. Resistance.

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[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Surely the don't tread on me people are fuming and about to patrol the streets to keep their communities safe, right?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Don't Tread on me people are perfectly fine with other people getting tread on.

[–] ssroxnak@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

ICE isn't going to their communities

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've only heard the "don't tread on me" weirdos sing the cell block tango. "they had it coming, they only had themselves to blame."

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago

""Better to be judged by 12 than to be kidnapped and dragged to a death camp by as few as 2!"

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (38 children)

Reminder: nazis are worthless pieces of trash. Who could possibly still pull out of this mess with major life changes and yadda yadda.

Nazi COPS are not saveable. They are monsters.

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

This is eventually going to result in a new Black Panther or Guardian Angel group like the 60s/70s.

Will be interesting to see these masked pieces of shit face some actual competition brandishing fucking rifles.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, then martial law and suspended elections. It’s almost like their plans are publicly available.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Fifth Amendment:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Fourteenth Amendment:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

They continue to violate the Constitution in so many ways. The Constitution recognizes "person" as any human on US soil.

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If they don't identify themselves, they are kidnappers and

SECOND AMENDMENT.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • unless you're brown or darker.

You made the classic mistake of forgetting the footnote, silly! See, now it all makes sense!

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[–] pieman@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Watching this shit happen in America from afar really is a mind fuck. I continue to fail to understand how Trump can still have any support is beyond me. The facism is just so god damn blatant at this point

[–] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Racism. The answer is racism. His white supremacist supporters love watching masked secret police beat the shit out of brown people. Then they’ll blame the next closest person when the food stops being produced and the farm food all rots on the vine

[–] Will8250@lemmings.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that resonated with me "Stop pretending your racism is patriotism"

It reminded me of something an African American woman said to me during college more than 20 years ago "I always watch out for people that love to fly the American flag because you never know what that really means."

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Alleged ICE agents. They haven't identified themselves, can we really say they're federal agents?

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 month ago

End qualified immunity! Any politicians that want a future in government should be call for this.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 31 points 1 month ago (38 children)

Well Harris wasn’t progressive enough for me so this is okay so we can show the democrats we’re sick of them.

[–] null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 14 points 1 month ago

Yeah but she supports genocide or something.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Remember in 2019 when Hong Kong protestors called the US for help?

Yeah... about that... 👀

(I saw the image and I immediately thought of Hong Kong)

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[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago

I’m quickly running out of chewing gum.

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Anyone have a link to the video? Trying to save all of these since they tend to disappear

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[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 19 points 1 month ago

We should bring back tarring and feathering.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (9 children)

It’ll keep happening until we all show up with baseball bats.

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[–] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Imagine, I got a 7 day ban on Reddit for saying it would be funny if someone stole an ICE dick’s car and left him standing there with his little mask.

These guys deserve so much worse than being stranded like that. And Reddit is ri-god-damn-diculous.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago

Oh so we're using lethal force (tasers) on suspected illegal immigrants now?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Yep, MAGA is filled with fucking neo-Nazis who want to turn the USA in to 1930's Germany.

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