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Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.

Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s Somali American community.

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 157 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Police Chief Brian O’Hara called it embarrassing to the law enforcement profession that the agents were wearing vests that said ‘POLICE.’

So start arresting them for impersonating officers or something.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 48 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

“Freeze!”

“No u”

pow pow pow pow pow pow

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 41 points 11 hours ago

Oh man, stop, I can only get so erect.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 hours ago

You cant spell police without ice

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 47 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Kavanaugh, J., concurring:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, he offered to show them identification but they wouldn't let him.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It’s a reference to a game about being an immigration officer in an authoritarian police state

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

Which was a reference to Nazis asking for papers.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 18 points 9 hours ago

So this guy was free to just get out of that SUV and walk away, right? He made it clear he was an American citizen, after all.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 45 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The entire article reads like a comedy... Of errors. The ICE agents didn't know what they were doing. Didn't know where to go. Didn't have functioning equipment. Didn't know how to use said equipment. Couldn't follow basic instructions (navigation).

Forget the innocent civilian who was pointlessly harassed and detained for a moment: They are clearly wasting US tax dollars, driving around aimlessly, without proper training, accomplishing absolutely nothing.

It is astonishingly clear that ICE is incapable of doing the most basic functions of their job. Better to not even have immigration enforcement at all than this pointless waste of government resources.

This is the clearest demonstration yet that Republicans are completely incapable of governing efficiently. Or even governing at all! If they can't even implement their own Nazi/racist ideals properly, what makes you think they can do something as complicated as balancing the budget or managing a war?

They can't even get villaining right!

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 18 points 8 hours ago

You misunderstand. That they can target anyone, at any time, is the point. They want you to live in fear.

Like everyone has this image of the Nazis being very orderly and efficient. And in some ways that's true. But the Sturmabteilung, like ICE, were not accountable to the law. If they turned up and decided they didn't like you, you could be beaten, kidnapped, tortured, or killed.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

I know this is a little off topic but I'm tired of the whole "Nazis were well organized and ran things like a well oiled machine" trope because it's just fantasy.

There were a ton of rather inept people in office, plenty of idiots running amock and the military structure was a joke where people who had no business playing commander got to make life and death decisions.

Like I really encourage anyone to just do some more reading on how the whole government and military was organized and the cascade of errors that came about because of it. There is a reason the third Reich lasted only 12 years and it's not just because they made bad decisions in the lead up to and during world war 2.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 36 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The awesome part is, they could do this again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, forever, because no court or congress has made it clear that they can't endlessly harass citizens

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 24 points 8 hours ago

SCOTUS said it was perfectly fine for ICE to use their racism to do things like this.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 30 points 8 hours ago

A country where the people aren't secure from random acts of violence by their government isn't a country at all.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 30 points 11 hours ago

*nazis *kidnap American citizen…

FTFY

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sue them. And be sure to sue the specific agents that did this to you.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, make sure to sue the masked federal agents that are immune from prosecution by name... You know the goons who hide their identity and the us legal system has defended.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

In a lawsuit, you should be able to unmask the identities of the people who arrested you. That used to work anyway. Who knows if it would work in the current climate, but I think it’s still important to at least try.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Shouldn't be tackling and arresting anyone.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

What about tickling? I saw one video a month ago where they pulled a woman out from her van. And as they were trying to hold her down, the one ice agent tickles her foot.

Ever since, I've been confused, trying to figure out what POSSIBLE purpose that served.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world -4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

When will this stop being news? We know that no one is going to do anything about it, so all this does is outrage everyone until it happens again.

Just list the persons name in memoriam and move on.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 9 points 3 hours ago

If someone wants to give voice to these victims then power to them