Imagine the pile of shit you have to be to be fired from that job for misconduct.
I don’t think there’s much left to imagine
For everyone else in this country, we would be in jail for assault and battery. Not for these fascists.
If they would just do that to every ice agent who manhandled their victims unnecessarily we could get rid of the whole organization I bet
You know they have administrators and janitors too, right?
The janitors can stay
Not if they are manhandling people.
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, sent a statement to the Guardian, saying the officer’s actions were “unacceptable and beneath the men and women of Ice”.
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According to local news outlet AMNY, the agent was seen last month forcibly pulling a teenage girl from her father’s arms as she cried. The outlet also noted that several court observers have raised concerns for months about his physical conduct.
You sure that behavior isn’t acceptable, Tricia? Sounds like it was accepted for several months before now.
What’s different is huge power players folding on Jimmy Kimmel and reversing themselves, people getting unnerved that charging James Comey is going to backfire, people talking about might happen at that meeting of all the generals next week. Every crowd of people who gathered around to yell and insult the ICE agents without anything happening to them, grand juries not returning indictments on people who (supposedly) interfered with ICE arrests in some minor way, all these little indications that their shield of invincibility might be subject to a massive crowd of people outside the building at some point in the near future, and the leader they placed so much faith in might not protect them. Or it might be his supporters, and he might be egging them on to invade the building and kill them for some random reason they had nothing to do with. It happened before, they certainly remember that on some level if they’re in high level government service.
It’s not any one of those things, and it’s not a complete list, it’s just a nonstop series of events that create signals about the zeitgeist. And of course it’s not guaranteed that things won’t proceed regardless until you and I are having this conversation from the inside of an ICE facility a year from now. But every week that goes by, with people loudly resisting the bullshit, in public and unapologetic with nothing happening to them, I think a lot of people in position to make these decisions are getting the unnerving feeling that they might be on the wrong side. And it might be a really really bad idea to just keep escalating, secure in the knowledge that nothing will ever blow back on them in any fashion no matter what they do.
You are absolutely right, and thank you for pointing that out and giving me a bit of legitimate hope for a better future. 🫶
“unacceptable and beneath the men and women of Ice”
Nothing is beneath them.
Yup. They wanted to send children to Guatemala in the dead of the night, likely into slavery. We must never forget that these people are evil.
Cool. Did this lady and her children get their life back too? Or did they still rip her husband away for a crime of missing paperwork?
Isn’t this how they behave at every single arrest? What made this one worse? I’m confused.
she was basically distraut and crying and the dude charged, tackled and put her on the ground with sufficient force that they had to send her to the hospital with suspected head injuries, and the entire crowd of press surrounding him.
Basically. it was the entire thing was filmed by press and there’s a lot of sympathy from all but the most assholish of assholes.
I guess I’ve seen a lot of footage like this. And usually the only thing that happens is the victim gets charged with assault.
yeah. this one has legs though. Which basically means that she won’t be charged, and that they’ll put the guy on paid leave until the news cycle blows over and then he’ll be back creating more “content” like this shit.
The only difference between this incident and dozens of others is that it literally happened in front of a bunch of press types.
I see. Maybe we need to start applying pressure to make the press do their job all the time instead of just occasionally.
Dump main stream and find independent media. We’re now finding tons of journalists who are doing it, but not through “traditional” channels.
Increasingly, the major outlets are getting owned by fewer and fewer billionaires. (And you can write off anything on TikTok now, too)
Yes this can’t be said enough - Ditch TikTok
I have but they still have a lot of influence on people. So I think it still matters.
He’s lucky that happened in a courthouse. If that was on the street with a bunch of people around, he may not have made it out. And you know none of them would admit seeing a thing.
Honestly, ICE has de-legitimized courthouses for me. I can’t believe that those places uphold law, when people are trafficked in plain sight.
“Immigration Court” is part of the executive branch. An “immigration judge” is a employee of the DoJ. I don’t think anyone can trust those anymore.
All ICE agents are in violation of the law and should all be detained and tried by a jury of their piers for war crimes
Relieved of duties, but I guarantee it’s with full pay - and only off duty until they think the news has calmed down.
Likely. Need some legal documents to get his name. Probably when he runs for Texas representative.
Do the ones from Maryland next.
So… Promoted?
No. Relocated.
Hmmm. I guess they’re Catholic.
paid vaccation
