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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 306 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 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.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would they bother with the license if the ICE facial app scan said she was an immigrant? I thought it was absolute and infallible...

[–] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A racist one

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

[–] xzot746@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And fascist don't forget that part!

It's quite sad to watch the decline of America.

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[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 152 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Only a truly sick society would allow this

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A society steeped in misinformation and propaganda ultimately embraces fascism

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sick from poison, no doubt, but sick nonetheless. I hope there's a cure that opens their eyes some day, but it won't come from a TV screen.

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[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's been allowed under the laws for a long time, it's just like everything else been a polite agreement not to do things like that. The constitution isn't really suited for actors in bad faith in all parts of the government.

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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 142 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

I really hope there's an american nuremberg, and i hope they claim they were just following orders, because as with the original nazis, that's been proven to not be a valid excuse. I hope these cunts go to prison for the rest of their lives.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 26 points 1 week ago

Ahh. But that was for Germans. Just following orders is a valid excuse for Americans, as the war crimes trials during the vietnam spanking made clear.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Nothing will happen to them. Nothing happened to the National guard who murdered and stabbed students in 1970.

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[–] retreaux@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sadly most Nazis minus a few higher ups went without punishment. Many scientists even ended up working for the US as part of Operation Paperclip. Like the Civil War, the punishment NEVER fits the crime and these assholes mainly get off scot-free with no repercussions. Which always leads to a resurgence at some point.

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[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know how many Nazis were hung in the Nuremberg trials? Like 10. Everyone else was basically acquitted. You cannot rely on systems of power to punish transgressors.

Geller vid

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 131 points 1 week ago (17 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?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 132 points 1 week ago (6 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.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it is about opening the eyes of the racist ICE supporters that in fact they are not safe from what they have initiated. Even if they cannot make the jump to being decent human beings caring about all people, they usually care about what happens to themselves.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week 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.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 18 points 1 week 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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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 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.

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Name and shame ice agents. Dean Cain.

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They should all be hunted down

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 89 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Since you elected a Fascist dictator in 2024?

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[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you are white, around 11 months. If you're not white... Well, haha... Funny thing that.. Umm, let me uhh, ya.. Let me just go look that up...

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[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I hope she sues the fuck out of them.

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 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.

[–] NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

or to run to the media

Frustratingly, the US media is owned by a small concentration of wealthy people who are being further enriched by Trump's bullshit.

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[–] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I hope someone hunts down her assailants one by one, tortures them psychologically, makes them suffer physically and broadcasts it all as a warning to other fascist fuckwits before delivering upon them the fate all Nazis deserve.

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 week 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.

[–] Vijfsnippervijf@feddit.nl 45 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week 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.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

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

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week 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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[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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