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[–] 316 points 10 months ago* (9 children)

This is getting weirder. Did they realize they were being shitty on camera?:

“I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,” she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. “This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?”

Agents then placed her in a patrol vehicle. She was released a short time later.

“She refused to cooperate and identify herself with all levels of law enforcement there,” said agency spokesman Alan Regalado, noting Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies were there. A Herald reporter saw deputies moving drivers along who were slowing down to watch the stop.

After agents removed the woman from her car, they found her driver’s license in the vehicle, ran it through their system and confirmed she is a U.S. citizen, Regalado said.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article313356223.html

Edit: So basically, she wouldn't show them her gold star. WTF country are we fucking living in.

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  • [–] 76 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    A racist one

    Edit: no lie, my phone autocorrected Fascist to racist (I probably fucked the spelling). Accurate both ways

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  • [–] 156 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    Only a truly sick society would allow this

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  • [–] 65 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    A society steeped in misinformation and propaganda ultimately embraces fascism

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    [+] 145 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (16 children)
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    [–] 137 points 10 months ago (28 children)

    Uhg. FTA:

    "She is visible white and 👱 blond, a medical worker, speaks with no accent. This should be a warning sign for MAGAt as they could be preyed by ICE at any time!"

    None of that is a reason to believe she's not an undocumented immigrant. And being brown, curly-haired, not-a-medical-worker is not any reason to believe they're an undocumented immigrant.

    Is this objectionable behavior by ICE? absolutely. But not because of who the victim is. but because there IS a victim. everyone in this country is protected by the constitution, and afforded the rights of due process- which ICE is flagrantly violating the shit out of.

    Can we please stop with the special classes of people like this?

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  • [–] 131 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    It is important because of the reason they cite.

    By going after this woman, they're making it clear to MAGA folk that allowing the rights of minorities to be eroded also removes their own protection. Even racist assholes should be appalled at the civil rights violations being committed.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    And in making that argument, it signals to the racist assholes that the problem being that she's white, blonde and professional, and therefore the rest are fair game.

    which as you say, erodes everyone's rights. But that's not particularly important to me. the rights of all are worth protecting even if that weren't true.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    Yes, yes, yes! But also, it's particularly notable that she's white and blond with no accent because they claim to their supporters to be protecting those specific people from "illegals." Pointing out that they're not only doing something awful but also defying their own stated principles is always a good thing to do.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It makes a point of slapping people who truly believe, even now, that all the ICE activity thus far has been against illegals.

    Illegal only. For real. They believe that.

    A maga relative in landscaping was mystified as to why half his employees had either left or were leaving and weren’t coming back for the next season. In his words: they’re believing all the lies and hype being spewed by the media.

    In his mind, even now, ICE is only doing their job: removing people here illegally. Because media can’t be believed and is filled not with lies but terrible twisting of the truth.

    So putting a face on this, that looks like MAGA, is about all that’s left to try to get their attention.

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    [–] 94 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    All ICE agents should be treated with nothing but disdain and ridicule for the rest of their lives. We need a running list of their identities so they can be ostracized. Monuments should be built at Arlington so they can join Robert E. Lee in their shame. Make it a public urinal, right at the entrance.

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    [–] 89 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Since when do we have to show our papers to the secret police?

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  • [–] 58 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    I hope she sues the fuck out of them.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Nothing would happen. Just a waste of money. And if it came to it, they would just get pardoned.

    There is no law in the USA. Trump is the law.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    From an outsider looking in, it sounds like more reason to sue or to run to the media. Otherwise, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy

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    [–] 56 points 10 months ago

    Had to check the date on the article because this is not the first woman in scrubs on her way to work being yanked out of a car while telling ICE that she is a citizen.

    We live in a dystopian hell and for some reason we keep acting like it’s all fine.

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  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago

    These ICE agents deserve the worst possible sentence. Especially as they caused many forced disappearances, which are crimes against humanity.

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago

    She is visible white and 👱 blond, a medical worker, speaks with no accent.

    She was eventually let go.

    The first one is why the second one happened.

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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago

    Jail. For all these ICE assholes and everyone above them.

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's just too bad there wasn't one of those responsible gun owners around to prevent terrorists from kidnapping a civilian. Speaking of, where are all of these gun toting Americans that believe they have them to defend America? Fucking cowards.

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    [–] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Prison sentences for ICE agents who participate. There is no excuse.

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