Imagine this.
You’re a Palestinian running a small shop in the West Bank.
Then they arrive:
Israeli settlers, masked, storm in and destroy everything.
If you dare to resist, you’re taken by the IDF and your life is finished.
En EEUU, un abuelo de más de 80 años con artrosis, sigue limpiando las mesas de una cadena alimentaria para poder pagarse sus medicinas bajo el sistema privado sanitario y así sobrevivir bajo el capitalismo.
Así es el maravilloso "sueño americano" capitalista, este es es el sistema que quieren normalizar, que seamos explotados hasta la muerte en trabajos lo suficientemente precarios para que no puedas dejarlo nunca si quieres pagar las facturas.
ICE violently detain Hispanic kid—as his mother screams for help.
"Go inside, Mama!" son yells in Spanish.
"So they don’t get you too!"
4 agents tackle her son face down onto concrete—kneel on his back with full body weight.
"No! Why are you taking my son away!" mother cries.
Son is taken away handcuffed in an unmarked white truck.
Mother desperately chases after them—throwing her shoes at agents fleeing the scene.
Incident occurred in the Verdugo Viejo neighborhood of Glendale, California.
Benz Dizon doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
ICE slam man's head against stone wall—send him to hospital with fractured skull.
Man's hands were already behind his back.
Agents then physically assault legal observers—soon as they realize they're caught on video.
Threaten to shoot witnesses with taser—even firing it up.
Agent holds taser sideways "gangster style"—is this proper training?
Man was taken to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital.
Incident occurred outside the Kane County Judicial Center in the St. Charles suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
Just got off the phone with my college roommate.
His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.
He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.
7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren’t their problem.
He told me he’s not the same person anymore.
Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn’t go away.
They did everything right.
Two incomes. No debt. Responsible their whole lives.
One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.
And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.
I don’t know how people defend this system with a straight face.
I really don’t.
@styrozcutter i played a number of seasons of comp tf2 as a team captain, and i can say from personal experience that by far the most unreliable teammates were those who were 15-18.
ICE didn’t “enforce the law” in Santa Ana, they maimed this kid and took his eye.🤬
Six hours of surgery pulling out glass, plastic, and metal. One shard stopped 7mm from his artery.
Left eye: gone forever.
And spare me the patriotic excuses, this is commie-Nazi shit.
I saw this under actual communism, now I am seeing this here in America.
@svwilhelm@MaybeConserv@TheJFreakinC@rvus101 if an officer detains you without reasonable suspicion of involvement in a crime, then they are violating your constitutional rights and are themselves breaking the law. if they arrest you simply for refusing to id yourself, then they are also violating your constitutional rights
@svwilhelm@MaybeConserv@TheJFreakinC@rvus101 in the state of new york (where this took place), you are under no legal obligation to identify yourself unless (i) it is a traffic stop or (ii) the officer has reasonable, articulable suspicion that you have committed a crime.
@MaybeConserv@TheJFreakinC@rvus101 you don't have to follow unlawful (unconstitutional) orders. detaining someone without reasonable, articulable suspicion of a crime is unconstitutional, and therefore illegal. get the boot out of your mouth.
In my district, 18-year-old Evelyn, a U.S. citizen, was thrown to the ground by ICE agents for filming them, and one pressed a knee on her neck.
DHS later denied it was ICE despite clear proof. Silencing citizens betrays the trust these agencies are meant to protect.
@RetzielC@ThickWaluigi@StaafJackie@mattxiv ahh the classic "if he didn't grovel at stalin's feet he must have been CIA" take. nahh, some socialists just don't like authoritarians.