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June 19
LOWES PACOIMA
20 ICE Agents Armed With Rifles Just to Take Down One 60-Year-Old Woman selling Tamales
RESULT OF ICE THUGS ABUSE
AMBULANCE NEEDED
AMBULANCE NEEDED BECAUSE OF ICE GESTAPO THUGS
NO Badge
NO Names
NO body cameras
WITHOUT THAT, THEY'RE KIDNAPPERS
A woman who witnessed this said they manhandled her, lifted her shirt showing her breast when they tried to carry her limp body.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Raids/comments/1lgak8w/20_ice_agents_armed_with_rifles_just_to_take_down/
in case the video does not show: https://www.tiktok.com/@letsparza/video/7517766107382451486?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
But why are they allowed to cover their faces while being servants to the public? If I cant ask you about your identity while youre being paid with our tax dollars to police the public, it smells like fascism.
Irish_Dem
(82,293 posts)One day it is going to go sideways for them and they can only blame themselves.
B.See
(8,846 posts)the WRONG people are being locked up. Starting at the top.
Justice matters.
(10,070 posts)they love to bully
they love violence
they can't find any other job for the rest of their life.
Irish_Dem
(82,293 posts)Or some sort of criminals.
Who else would the Trump Crime Syndicate hire?
LiberalArkie
(19,916 posts)on them. Remember how they were during the AIDS thing during Reagan.
Irish_Dem
(82,293 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(19,221 posts)Or easier still, I'll just replace it with "Gestapo".
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(19,221 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,399 posts)But ICEtapo works well.
barbtries
(31,349 posts)the terrorist organization known as ICE
Response to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)
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crud
(1,282 posts)and there are tomale sellers and taco stands all over the city. Most of them are busy all the time. I haven't heard about fascist activity around here, but if they show up, it isn't gonna go to well. I'm thinking the street vendors in LA are probably staying off the street. What a shame and loss to our culture. I'm a white guy and I love my multi-cultural city.
BattleRow
(2,710 posts)Bayard
(30,264 posts)crud
(1,282 posts)PatSeg
(53,534 posts)It was the most diverse place I've ever lived and probably the most comfortable community that I can recall. Quite a few people that I worked with were immigrants, many of them students. I find myself wondering if they're okay right now.
obamanut2012
(29,509 posts)Wonderful city.
PatSeg
(53,534 posts)My main problem was the air quality and I ended up sick in the hospital many times due to respiratory failure. All the new construction at the time only made it worse. It's a shame, as it was a lovely place to live and I loved the weather.
obamanut2012
(29,509 posts)Sells the best tamales around Sac imo.
UpInArms
(55,343 posts)Do they cover their faces so that their wives, mothers, fathers, children wont see them for who they are?
Monsters
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,240 posts)and TACO man.
BattleRow
(2,710 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,726 posts)And we can't have that!
BidenRocks
(3,486 posts)Deported many people without the dangerous terrorism.
Not many complained. Maybe because they were real crooks and they got their Habeus Corpus.
Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)soldierant
(9,372 posts)KT2000
(22,214 posts)high powered rifles at the ready. A 60 year old woman selling tamales is known to be one of the most dangerous people in America. Don't they have any shame?
Layzeebeaver
(2,292 posts)It's to assure any people in the surrounding area are too shocked and afraid to get involved in pushing back against tyranny.
DBoon
(25,141 posts)soldierant
(9,372 posts)adding "that" right after it would have clarified is. (My weird mind added the "that" for me.)
Layzeebeaver
(2,292 posts)But you are correct as well.
Irish_Dem
(82,293 posts)ffr
(23,447 posts)Probably a ring leader or drug smuggler with ties to organized crime.
How many hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are we spending on this nonsense? Ridiculous!
DFW
(60,429 posts)This seems like the bad guys arent government agents at all, but thugs working for private contractors hired by ICE. Arms Length they call it, so that when the body count starts, not one actual government employee will have been guilty of anything, or even traceable to the perps. The only guilty parties will be the ones who defend themselves against these hired gangsters unless they get confronted by groups in numbers far superior to their own, and armed with weapons they are equally adept at both using and not using unless absolutely necessary for self defense.
Take down a few groups of these thugs, unmask them, charge them with assault and kidnapping, with film evidence to back it up. They will have no written orders on them, no warrants, no solid proof that they are anything other than criminals working for a criminal organization. They carry no government ID, not to protect their identities, but, to my way of thinking, because they have no goverbment ID. They collect their pay quietly (cash?), and vanish back into obscurity. Eventually, someone will crack, testify, and then let the round of prosecutions start: Watergate II.
Im just dreaming, I know, but I was there to see Nixons thugs jailed. Its not completely without precedent. We had to be paient, but it DID happen.
patphil
(9,219 posts)All to grab one harmless old woman off the street.
I'll bet that operation cost at least $10,000.
Multiply this bullshit by maybe 50-100 operations a day, and the amount of money spent to support this operation goes into the mega millions really quick.
And that's just the street level stuff. All the support for this anti-american, fascist operation will easily bring the whole thing up to way over $1 billion a month.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/report-costs-mass-deportation-immigration/
One thing to remember, the "big beautiful bill" allows for thousands more ICE agents, and huge expansion of all their equipment and facilities, including bigger detention centers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/trump-contractors-ice-detentions-deportations/83250623007/
One wonders what they plan to do with this gestapo-like secret police force after they're done deporting people.
Skittles
(172,833 posts)it's all sick entertainment for the cult
ananda
(35,500 posts)The ICE people, and all Republicans really, do not see all people
as human beings, but rather the non-whites they see as dangerous
animals that need to be eliminated from the country... one.
And their view of life is one of social darwinism and rugged
individualism on the part of white people led only by white men,
not one of shared cooperation, inclusiveness, and thought...
two.
Thus, if we expect them to think and believe as we do, we will
always make the mistake of judging them by OUR lights, not
theirs.
They think they are doing God's work, trying to set up the
world for those who are truly worthy... white people led only
by white men.
There is no way to fight this on their terms. We have to think
together and organize en masse to show them that we are the
vast majority of people in this country and that we will only
live and believe on our terms, no theirs.
BattleRow
(2,710 posts)profess to?
Jeff Sharlett has done exceptional work on Christian Dominionists,starting with his book,,"The Family",later turned into a mini series.
This group is instrumental in National Prayer Day celebrations.
Is it kismet that dominion and dominate are so similar?
swong19104
(662 posts)No, its outright fascism. And a weak-ass fraidy cat bunch of fascists, too. These weak-ass fascists are no different than Thomas Blanton, Herman Cash, et al who bombed the 16th St Baptist Church killing four little girls. Or those who killed Emmett Till. Theyre always hiding behind their hoods and robes. Today, its a balaclava worn over the nose.
BadgerMom
(3,437 posts)FIFY
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,438 posts)Whether we survive his reign of terror is up to us.
moniss
(9,149 posts)I hope not but it may have been that they saw her condition worsen or they realized the seriousness. Notice how they beat on the guy in the van to get him out.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)Which makes a hideous kind of sense.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132278198
orangecrush
(31,125 posts)Dave Id
(327 posts)Hope this dangerous women didn't harm any of the agents. /s
LymphocyteLover
(10,134 posts)JFC these fascist fucks!
SidneyR
(234 posts)The USA as we knew it is gone. It is now a fascist country. There is no going back. I wonder if the Founders would even recognize the country they created.
TacosUberAlles
(88 posts)and I'm perfectly fine with that given how much bad they supported like slavery & women not being able to vote.
SidneyR
(234 posts)wcmagumba
(6,626 posts)SheltieLover
(81,683 posts)Cherokee100
(458 posts)I think, the term should be LICE, not Ice.
Norrrm
(5,572 posts)tanyev
(49,674 posts)
MissouriDem47
(442 posts)A guy named Jesse and his brother Frank did their most productive work with their faces covered.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,783 posts)KentuckyWoman
(7,417 posts)My unpopular take is if the local ICE agents are going to be tasked with TV reality show crap like this, and agree to do it, at minimum take enough agents to handle the crowd. Be sure agents are clearly tagged as law enforcement. They need body cameras ...
I don't mind the face covering. Better they find a more honorable way to make a living, but the internet is crazy. No reason their family, friends and neighbors should be at risk.
Flame away, but what I saw in that video was asinine, but not 100% bad.
travelingthrulife
(5,561 posts)They would never use body cameras.
KentuckyWoman
(7,417 posts)Personally, if I'm out there on the sidewalk not bothering a soul and 6 big guys in kevlar rush me, all I'm thinking about is live through it and please bring my purse with me. Next comes let me call my family and I need a lawyer - and probably I need my medicine.
You might be right in the age of social media. Maybe putting their faces on social media so the kids and wife and parents get threatened will be effective to stopping this, but I have not seen that to be true thus far in life.
Edited for brevity and sticking to the point....
4catsmom
(667 posts)not that it matters anymore. You just have to look like their stereotype of an 'illegal'
Cirsium
(4,106 posts)No human being is "illegal." Ever.
Nululu
(1,116 posts)Clearly show and badges displayed for public police actions
nwduke
(523 posts)J6 thugs!🤬
nwduke
(523 posts)J6 thugs🤬
yellow dahlia
(6,448 posts)No organizational action.
Anyone can pretend to be an arrestor nowadays.
Dystopian Wild Wild West.
SunSeeker
(58,374 posts)William769
(59,147 posts)They must have been short handed.
Magoo48
(6,738 posts)Condemning this attack by armed, masked criminals. This is one of those instances that should be forced into the light, no matter how much effort it takes.
cstanleytech
(28,590 posts)Wingus Dingus
(9,173 posts)Thanks, ICE!!
travelingthrulife
(5,561 posts)Lots of hispanic venders out there.
BobTheSubgenius
(12,245 posts)She was selling TAMALES??? What did she think was going to happen? It might as well have been borscht.
Jesus wept. The times we are living in.
gfarber
(278 posts)A thug in a shirt full of stains
Sought fashion for lawless campaigns.
Uniform? Nah
Theyll just guess youre the law
Too late, once theyre tossed in your vans.
No badge, just a mask and a sneer,
He whispers, The law? Im unclear.
No warrant to show,
No name you might know,
Just silence, and then you disappear.
They dress like a dad on the lam,
Then snatch you as cool as a clam.
No patch, no ID
Just impunity,
And a van with no windows. Wham.
C Moon
(13,736 posts)Hi mother couldn't locate him. The latest I heard was that he's at a detention center. But why?
This Tiktok video is the best one (profanity warning):
https://www.tiktok.com/@latimes/video/7517688786558520607
But here's a YouTube from CBS news:
surfered
(14,261 posts)surfered
(14,261 posts)Response to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)
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Zackzzzz
(396 posts)I watched the video and she was unconscious for too long.
It looked like her head was on the sidewalk.
All these big.....CAMO HE-MEN...with dangerous toys
just blocking people from filming their dirty work.
In light of new info,
do they get their bounty pay if she goes to the hospital, instead?
She has just disappeared.
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