Masked ICE agents let man go after community members intervene during raid in Downey
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Fuck yeah, community members!
While I'm happy that people are taking action in some parts of the county, we need to see more of this happening in red and purple states. I'm not hearing much good news from those places.
According to Downey councilman Mario Trujillo, the man was working when he noticed ICE was at his job. He immediately started riding his bike toward the apartments. That's when one of the agents stopped him by grabbing one of the tires, causing him to fall to the ground.
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Melyssa Rivas, who lives in the area, captured the whole thing on camera.
"It looked like a full on kidnapping scene out of a movie, it was scary," Rivas said. ""My dad has papers, he has his citizenship but he looks just like that man. He's a full citizen. They stereotyped that man."
This is heartbreaking.
It's a sad confirmation of what I always feared the USA really was.
This stain on the American brand will long outlive Trump.
I use Germany (appropriately, I think) as my tool for comparison.
It took Germany generations to overcome the pariah status and national shame caused by Hitler. Granted, the U.S. hasn’t started a war or Holocaust (yet), but we’re directly supporting and encouraging one, and the mass deportations are a sort of “Holocaust lite”. Plus, I think there’s a good chance that we’ll end up attacking Iran.
It’s going to take about sixty years of continuous, uninterrupted “good behavior” for the U.S. to regain any credibility, and that’s just counting what Trump has pulled so far. Still, I don’t think the U.S. will ever be able to completely outlive this.
Yeah, bcz they're gonna start getting shot at or beaten to death with baseball bats. Is your life worth your job? This guy didnt think so, he did the right thing. Honestly, im gonna have a hard time pinning down the date of the start of the civil war when the history books are written.
Should probably just call it No Kings Day. Poetic considering it was flag day/ 250th anniversary of the army.
And a political assassination on the same day? Yeah, that was the start of the Second American Civil War. We'll see how quickly things heat up now
Stop calling these assholes ICE and federal agents. We have no idea who these people are, so stop pretending.
“Let HIM go, and we’ll let YOU go.” Seems fair.
No one seems to have said that. Would be cool if it were true.
If it was a quote, I would have used the quote feature, like this:
People began shouting for the agents to leave him alone and told the man not to sign anything.
Sorry for the confusion.
That is terrible journalism... Correction:
Unidentified masked men tried kidnapping a man in Downey. They fled the scene after local community members intervened.
Doxx these cunts.
I hate video players on news websites so much.
Seriously, why even have them when they never fucking work!? This has been a problem for over a decade and a half now!
Edit: Thankfully I found a YouTube Mirror
Names and faces.
United Flight 93
What does that have to do with anything? Terrorists hijacked a plane 14 years ago and now we’re here.
The terrorists today are domestic, running around in tacticool gear and working for our government.
United Flight 93 was the plane that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11. It was headed for some important federal building in Washington DC, but was detoured to the ground directly below it because of the intrepid actions of the plane's passengers and flight crew. They sacrificed their lives to prevent a (potentially) greater tragedy.
I think the connection op is making is that collective action and bravery can, even in the 11th hour, prevent a larger disaster.
Some other people gave more context, and maybe I should have, too.
Used to be, if a plane got hijacked, the passengers were compliant and waited for it to be over. United 93 changed that forever.
The same thing seems to be happening with regard to regular citizens and ICE raiders, and I'm here for it.
The good ordinary people on board flight 93 heroically prevented the terrorists from causing even more destruction by banding together to fight them at the cost of their own lives
When we stand up together we can stop atrocities from happening. But we have to stand up and we can't wait and see.
The courage of the common people?
Let's roll...some fucking ice agents
Downey rules. And I'm not just saying that because of Porto's (but also kinda yeah).