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A video recorded last week has ignited outrage online after it captured ICE agents violently arresting two brothers in South Norwalk, Connecticut, in broad daylight without producing a warrant. The men, identified as Ricardo Chavez and his brother, reportedly hold legal status to live and work in the United States.

The footage (credit @alwaysfilmthepolice) shows plainclothes ICE agents forcibly detaining the men in a public area. Witnesses say the agents refused to provide identification or present a warrant when asked, instead resorting to physical force and a taser to subdue the brothers before hauling them away. They also allegedly damaged their vehicle.

Community members who know the Chavez family insist that both men are law-abiding residents with valid documentation. “They work, they pay taxes, and they belong here,” said one South Norwalk resident who witnessed the arrest. “This was nothing short of a kidnapping.”

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 218 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

I have no idea how not a single ICE agent has been killed yet?
Apparently the good guy with a gun is a myth.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 161 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because they don't try this shit with people who look like they can hit back, most of those have real arrest warrants on them so they can leave that for local and state cops to deal with and just focus on ambushing students and day laborers and people with small children

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 80 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Same comment:

I have no idea how not a single ICE agent has been killed yet?
Apparently the good guy with a gun is a myth.

I am low key shocked that some group of vigilantes hasn’t straight up ambushed a pack of ICEheads yet.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sadly, I don't think that will happen on any scale as long at the main targets are brown.

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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Apparently the good guy with a gun is a myth.

It always has been.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's a poor strategy and most people understand that on some level. Either because of the civil rights movement and understanding the value of the moral high ground or because people understand they want violence to declare martial law. That just isn't the play.

Also Luigi isn't a myth.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I won't comment on whether political violence is the right thing to do, but if you think the civil rights movement was peaceful you've been taught some disgustingly whitewashed history. Ever heard of the Black Panthers? They got in firefights with the police all the time, even though many would later pretend that MLK was the only and unanimous voice for all of America's oppressed.

Also the whole Civil Rights movement can be traced to the Civil War, instigated in part by people like John Brown whose whole thing was massacring slavers in the name of God.

This rewriting of history of America as a nation of peaceful citizens who got their Rights by Asking Nicely fucking pisses me off.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

The reason for gun control was Regan was afraid of the balck panthers owning guns.

Full stop

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you boondocks for showing me Malcolm X. Yeah I know but this game is a bit different. Gotta be smarter this go around, money, it's all money. Your color never really mattered it was just convenient.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If it's all money... How do you propose the fascists will go away? Good words and peaceful protests don't mean shit when the oligarchs own the quasi-totality of the media landscape.

As a totally unrelated thought, Luigi's alleged cheap 3D printer did more for access to healthcare in the US than every government from the past decade-and-a-half and that's a straight fact.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I tell you what the real myth is. Thinking they need violence to declare martial law. They clearly don't. So that's an argument people need to stop making.

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

It's possible they have, and those incidents get suppressed for fear of encouraging imitators - similar to Luigi Mangione.

News sites want you scared, but not angry.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Because they are well armed. Attacking them would be a suicide mission and people are not suicidal.

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[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 69 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Surely the don't tread on me people are fuming and about to patrol the streets to keep their communities safe, right?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

Don't Tread on me people are perfectly fine with other people getting tread on.

[–] ssroxnak@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

ICE isn't going to their communities

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've only heard the "don't tread on me" weirdos sing the cell block tango. "they had it coming, they only had themselves to blame."

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 13 points 3 weeks ago

""Better to be judged by 12 than to be kidnapped and dragged to a death camp by as few as 2!"

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 69 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (38 children)

Reminder: nazis are worthless pieces of trash. Who could possibly still pull out of this mess with major life changes and yadda yadda.

Nazi COPS are not saveable. They are monsters.

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 65 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

This is eventually going to result in a new Black Panther or Guardian Angel group like the 60s/70s.

Will be interesting to see these masked pieces of shit face some actual competition brandishing fucking rifles.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yup, then martial law and suspended elections. It’s almost like their plans are publicly available.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
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[–] iridebikes@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe the citizens with guns need to show up when kidnappings are going down... Might change the new ICE employees minds.

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Alleged ICE agents. They haven't identified themselves, can we really say they're federal agents?

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 3 weeks ago

End qualified immunity! Any politicians that want a future in government should be call for this.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 35 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Well Harris wasn’t progressive enough for me so this is okay so we can show the democrats we’re sick of them.

[–] null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 17 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but she supports genocide or something.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Remember in 2019 when Hong Kong protestors called the US for help?

Yeah... about that... 👀

(I saw the image and I immediately thought of Hong Kong)

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[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Anyone have a link to the video? Trying to save all of these since they tend to disappear

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’ll keep happening until we all show up with baseball bats.

[–] jouhija@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

'Muricans should have more than enough guns. Where are they now? Hiding like rats, waiting for the Nazis to fully take over?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Organized federal financed paramilitary units with a hierarchy and a support structure and a multi-billion dollar PR budget are going to outperform random disconnected vigilantes who are too afraid to so much as wave at one another.

This is the same problem the Spanish Anarchists had against Franco. Its the problem German and Italian Communists had against the Fascist/Monarchist alliance. It's the problem the French Resistance had against the Nazi occupation and the Hamas / Hezbollah resistance has had against the IDF.

Simply owning a firearm isn't enough. You need a community of like-minded people operating in concert towards a recognized goal. That's the difference between the Vietcong and Ruby Ridge. That's what separates successful insurgencies from "lone wolf waterboarded to death in Gitmo blacksite".

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[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 18 points 3 weeks ago

We should bring back tarring and feathering.

[–] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Imagine, I got a 7 day ban on Reddit for saying it would be funny if someone stole an ICE dick’s car and left him standing there with his little mask.

These guys deserve so much worse than being stranded like that. And Reddit is ri-god-damn-diculous.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, MAGA is filled with fucking neo-Nazis who want to turn the USA in to 1930's Germany.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 11 points 3 weeks ago

Oh so we're using lethal force (tasers) on suspected illegal immigrants now?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Authoritarian hell…

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