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struggle4progress

(125,666 posts) Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:31 PM Jul 2025

ICE Slapped With Million Dollar Lawsuit For Assaulting US Citizen

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is demanding the federal government pay $1 million in damages to a U.S. citizen who was arrested and detained last month while filming an immigration raid at a Home Depot in Los Angeles.

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ICE Slapped With Million Dollar Lawsuit For Assaulting US Citizen (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2025 OP

One million isn't enough. indigoth Jul 2025 #1

And there should be hundreds of these lawsuits by now. Midnight Writer Jul 2025 #2

Why haven't criminal charges been filed ? MichMan Jul 2025 #3

indigoth

(196 posts)

1. One million isn't enough.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:39 PM

Jul 2025

It should be more, much more, than that.

Midnight Writer

(25,200 posts)

2. And there should be hundreds of these lawsuits by now.

Reply to indigoth (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:55 PM

Jul 2025

We all have a Constitutional Right to due process, to habeas corpus, to not be unlawfully detained and arrested.

Where is the ACLU?

MichMan

(16,863 posts)

3. Why haven't criminal charges been filed ?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Jul 9, 2025, 01:24 PM

Jul 2025

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