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.”
Dont you guys have the ENTIRE amendment against this shit? Wear a strap, conceal carry and if somebody tries to literally kidnap you, just protect yourself.
I imagine for most, outside of a larger organised effort, the calculus is fairly simple. ICE agents are likely “itching” for someone to reach for a piece, for an excuse to shoot an “illegal”. And it’s not like law enforcement’s going to show up acting all reasonable to a scene with dead ICE agents too. Anyone shooting an ICE agent would get plastered all over FOX not as a defender of individual rights, but as a case in point for the propaganda machine.
Resisting is an almost certain death warrant. Not resisting you maintain ‘hope’ that reasonable minds will win out in the end / that you’ll only be locked up for a short time.
*has ancestors that hauled ass all the way from Europe, beats latin americans because immigrant"
Yep, MAGA is filled with fucking neo-Nazis who want to turn the USA in to 1930’s Germany.
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.
Man I want to walk up behind the Nazi in that third pic and kick him in the grundle so hard.
Start carrying people. Bear up them arms.
Just find like-minded people, dress up like they do, don’t identify yourself and wear a mask, and do whatever you want. It seems to work for them.
Authoritarian hell…
It’ll keep happening until we all show up with baseball bats.
'Muricans should have more than enough guns. Where are they now? Hiding like rats, waiting for the Nazis to fully take over?
Blue states have encouraged disarming while the red are stockpiling. Wonder who ICE are targeting…
The ones with guns are mostly just cheering them on from the sidelines
That’s because the majority of them are fascists. What happened to American exceptionalism? It never existed. it’s a nation of soft wanna be humans disguised as capitalists.
Organized federal financed paramilitary units with a hierarchy and a support structure and a multi-billion dollar PR budget are going to outperform random disconnected vigilantes who are too afraid to so much as wave at one another.
This is the same problem the Spanish Anarchists had against Franco. Its the problem German and Italian Communists had against the Fascist/Monarchist alliance. It’s the problem the French Resistance had against the Nazi occupation and the Hamas / Hezbollah resistance has had against the IDF.
Simply owning a firearm isn’t enough. You need a community of like-minded people operating in concert towards a recognized goal. That’s the difference between the Vietcong and Ruby Ridge. That’s what separates successful insurgencies from “lone wolf waterboarded to death in Gitmo blacksite”.
Not in Connecticut. That’s the point.
Joining the Nazis.
Alleged ICE agents. They haven’t identified themselves, can we really say they’re federal agents?
We should bring back tarring and feathering.
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
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
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.”
Well 20 years ago nationalism in the US was at seemingly an all time high. It was hat dressed up as patriotism
And beyond racism it is happening in blue cities.
His supporters are primed to think that cities are dangerous places already, and that a city led by liberals is in shambles, and that all the people living there are lawless liberals that deserve punishment.
They are cheering about this because they see it as sending their troops to go hurt others. Whether those people are other because of their race, their religion, their gender, their sexuality, or their political beliefs.
And when these same people find out that something about them or a loved one makes them other they will act shocked. They will protest that they aren’t an other they are in the in-group.
And then they will learn the true nature of fascism. The in-group is constantly shrinking, because there must always be an other to blame. And they will learn that lesson too late.
alot of them are also just dressing up as ice, not employed by them too.
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)
The day someone actually kills ICE-Nazis is the day i will send financial support to muricans.
Oh so we’re using lethal force (tasers) on suspected illegal immigrants now?
They don’t need to produce a warrant. Please direct your outrage correctly.
“Section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides ICE officers the authority to arrest aliens without a judicial warrant.”
This has always been the case. It’s not Russia, it’s not Trump, the outrage should be directed at the “Immigration and Nationality Act” but I guess when Biden or Obama were President it was OK?
Been that way since at least 1990. So, um, when Obama was the Deporter in Chief, I don’t remember people jumping out of their skins like now?
They actually require reason to believe you are hear illegally not skin color or accent nor presence outside home Depot
Sure but that’s different than going on and on about “no warrant”.
most arrests in a non-racist US would have to effectively be as paper driven as any other arrest a targeted enforcement against bob who we know overstayed his visa or james whom we caught sneaking in.
The problem with other actions is that they are inherently going to involve demanding papers in a fashion that is inherently illegal. You don’t have to anywhere show proof of citizenship to walk down the way.
OK but ICE doesn’t have to show a warrant and it’s always been that way. I didn’t invent that, neither did Trump. No one complained when it happened under Obama or Biden, or Clinton, or Bush(es)… Look, I’m just as horrified as anyone else with a modicum of humanity, but blasting the “without a warrant” part in every headline is counterproductive.
“Section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides ICE officers the authority to arrest aliens without a judicial warrant.”
Emphasis mine. No warrant. No due process. Not an “alien” unless you can fucking prove it.
And you gave away the game with that last part… If you think this is anything like what was happening under Obama or Biden, you’re ignorant or lying.
“gave away the game”? What are you even talking about? The “game” is going on and on about something that’s not relevant.
Why aren’t the articles saying what you are saying instead of stating irrelevant information? They didn’t have warrants either under Obama or Biden.
So you have some articles from Obama/Biden era about plain clothes, masked, agents who refused to identify themselves, smashing car windows and pulling people out of cars without warrants?
So fucking dishonest.
don’t call it a warrant then, call it proof that these people are aliens because it doesn’t appear they actually have this either. and without that then they are violating a different law.
Was there a daily occurrence of masked ICE agents with no identification smashing cars and grabbing people under Obama? I understand you want to talk about Democrats gladly participating in laws that help fascists, and you’re right, but it’s still valid to show the active fascist shift by listing the occurrences that pile up now when they didn’t before - not nearly as much.
