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Okay, what is happening to him is a humanitarian crisis, but they arrested him for driving without a license, not because he missed a turn signal.
What ICE is doing is abhorrent. We don't need to exaggerating and/or lie to make horrifying headlines marginally worse.
Edit - Jesus christ, you all have some real issues with connotation, huh? Yes, he was pulled over for a turn signal, which set off the chain of events, but the intention of the headline is to connect the mostly innoculous act of forgetting to signal to the resulting deportation, when that is blatantly not the case. All the "UMMM, ACKSHUALLY, THIS REALLY DID HAPPEN" completely misses the point here.
Fuck me for refusing to just let it slide when media uses intentionally misleading titles to invoke extreme reactions for engagement, I guess.
I mean. I dunno what to tell you.
The headline implied the turn signal is the problem and he's an angel besides that. It might have started the police interaction but it is not the whole thing. Anyone scanning the headline is going to only get a half truth.
Still don't think driving without a license is deport worthy, but it's a much bigger violation and the real heart.
NGL it is a problem, because who tf gets pulled over for failure to signal? It's just an excuse to pull someone over for DWB.
Where I'm from (still in US) just about anyone, no matter race, will get pulled over for it. Especially near schools or hospitals. Now, are they doing it to fulfill there supposedly non-existent ticket quota? That I'd believe.
Gotcha. Around here (also US) it's just an excuse to pull over certain people. It's used very selectively. TBH I wish they would enforce it equitably, there is a ton of people in this area that never use their turn signal
Basically anyone in rural Georgia. Those cops don't have a lot to do. That's why whenever you're passing through a small town you have to drive perfectly or you will get pulled over.
These small towns keep people posted on either side of town just to write tickets for minor infractions
Bless you for reading.
Turns out most people are so used to intentionally misleading headlines that they'll actively defend them based on the "well technically" truths.
Victim blaming dog whistle detected.
Correct, so him "not being an angel" is irrelevant
Nope. Not at all.
While a more serious offense than the turn signal thing, it's still not punishable by deportation in a sane society and as such an equally invalid excuse for deporting anyone.
how did they initiate a stop?
I imagine it was by using their sirens.
He wouldn't have been pulled over in the first place if he not failed to signal.
Can you imagine being pulled over every time you fail to signal? A lot of times people don't signal when they're in a turn-only lane because it's obvious they're going to turn, but technically that can be used as an excuse to pull them over.
God I wish they'd actually pull over people for not turn signaling instead of just as an excuse to deport a black person