It’s pretty simple:
American society has prioritized private space. We have, on average, better, larger, and nicer homes
European society has prioritized public space. They have, on average, better, larger, and nicer parks, plaza, transit, shopping districts, etc.
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ICE has already changed its story, from “he was using his car as a weapon” to “we shot him because of public safety.”
If you’re posting “Bad decisions lead to bad outcomes” all over the internet, know that it’s a slogan used to excuse killing first and asking questions later.
You are repeating ICE’s unproven justification as though it were established fact.
https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY confirms: The man ICE killed was not the person they were seeking. The agents were in unmarked cars, masked, in partial uniforms, and wearing no body cameras.
DHS’s account has already shifted, witnesses describe a different sequence of events, and Sen. Angus King says no evidence has yet been presented showing that the agent faced an imminent threat.
Release the evidence. Let an independent investigation determine who made the deadly decisions.
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A tourist was seriously injured Friday evening after being thrown 8 feet into the air by a bull bison in Yellowstone National Park. Professional photographer Mike Macleod filmed the incident and said the bison was "angry, agitated and charging anything and everything." (No audio)
ICE killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine.
He was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and had a Social Security number. His wife and 3-year-old daughter were in the car when ICE fired at least five shots into the vehicle.
He was not the person ICE was looking for.
An eyewitness says an SUV struck his vehicle before the shooting and heard him say, “I tried to stop.”
The ICE agents involved were not wearing body cameras.
https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY highlights a simple reality: when masked, unidentified people in unmarked vehicles try to ram you off the road, it can be extraordinarily difficult to know who they are or how to comply.
That is why identification, body cameras, transparency and accountability matter.
Without them, this is not legitimate law enforcement. It is fascism.
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Kristol's framing here is worth sitting with directly because it inverts the argument this administration has spent a decade making. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the version of the American Dream Republicans claim to be defending. Thirty five years of work. A business that gave other men jobs. Three sons pushed through college specifically so they would not have to labor in the sun the way he did. He was in the process of legally regularizing his status, filling out paperwork, providing fingerprints, doing the thing every immigration hardliner insists people should do instead of staying undocumented.
He did the thing, and his own government shot him anyway, then went silent. More than six hundred open misconduct complaints are currently sitting with the DHS inspector general, a number large enough that this case is not an aberration inside that count, it is one more entry in a pattern the government's own watchdog office is already tracking. Kristol's line lands because it is not really about Lorenzo at all. It is about what it says when the people running the country cannot manage a fraction of the discipline, humility, or accountability that a construction worker who never wanted his own children to see him in pain managed for three decades without anyone asking him to.
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent.
There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's @JRogalskiKHOU found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off.
Renee Good all over again.
ICE under @StephenM has lost 90% of its cases.
Let that sink in, folks.
These are the facts.
They’re breaking the law with violent, and often untrained, masked agents — who don’t wear body cameras.
This should be concerning to freedom-loving Republicans most of all.
Why aren’t any of you speaking up?
Nothing?
Cowards!
If you’re in Trump’s circle, you’re not allowed to criticize anything this administration does.
You must exhibit TDS at all times: Trump Derangement Syndrome
This incompetence is a major contributor to @realDonaldTrump’s plummeting approval rating, and why the democrats will likely dominate the midterms.
We must hold @EnvoyNoem@StephenM@PamBondi and @RealTomHoman accountable
… but they’ll all get pardons.
How you treat the meek is the best way to judge a person's character, as is staying silent in the face of injustice.
Cowards!
NEW: None of the officers at the scene where a man was fatally shot by ICE in Houston were wearing body cameras, according to two DHS officials and a source familiar with the investigation. https://t.co/iyuRL5tEXr
🚨BREAKING: (Chicago suburb, St. Charles) ICE agents smashed a handcuffed man’s face into a stone wall, then assaulted a U.S. citizen, multiple times, once they realized they were filming.
In the video, multiple ICE agents have a man in handcuffs. While he is completely under their control, and not resisting, they smash his face into a stone wall.
A U.S. citizen begins asking for the man’s name, while filming... note that he is not interfering, blocking the agents, or preventing the arrest in any way…. But that doesn’t stop the ICE agent from chases after him, while another agent threatens him with a taser.
As the citizen is actively backing away, the agent continues walking toward him, and aggressively shoves him backwards.
Even after the detained man is being escorted to the vehicle… and the legal observer is nowhere near the agents, or their cars… that same ICE agent continues shoving the U.S. citizen for no apparent reason.
And while he is standing on the public sidewalk, another agent walks over and points a taser inches from him, and then turns around and points his taser at other innocent people, who are just standing and watching.
Americans have a First Amendment right to record government officials performing their duties in public. Threatening, intimidating, or assaulting someone because they are documenting law enforcement, violates that right.
And slamming a person face, who is handcuffed and not resisting, into a stone wall is excessive force.
This is exactly why it’s important to always record anytime you see ICE agents.
Because when there isn’t video evidence, we’re told to trust the government’s version of events. And more often than not, their version is filled with lies.
But when there is video, the people filming often become the next target… just for documenting what is happening.
And that’s what makes this so alarming.
This is happening across the country, almost every single day. Americans are watching videos of people being thrown to the ground, beaten, threatened, shoved, tased, and intimidated by federal agents… while never seeing anyone held accountable.
When a government refuses to investigate or discipline agents who violate people’s constitutional rights, it sends a message that they can keep doing it.
And that’s exactly what we’re seeing.
The Constitution means nothing if the people sworn to uphold it can violate it without consequence.
And as long as this administration refuses to hold ICE agents accountable, Americans should expect to keep seeing videos like this… because impunity breeds abuse.
ICE shoots Houston man in stomach during traffic stop—he died 7 hours later.
Family was never notified he was taken to hospital for hours—denied a chance to say goodbye.
Stepdaughter only found out by social media—seeing video of her father screaming in pain after being shot.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was pulled over while driving his van at 6:50am—and pronounced dead at approximately 3:00pm.
ICE agents claim he "ignored verbal commands" and then tried to "weaponize his vehicle."
No eyewitness testimony or video has been provided to prove the agents' claims.
Incident occurred near Canal Street and Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas.
Hey @Netflix: The first season has 10 episodes and you binge it in a week. The second season airs three years later with 8 episodes that come out in two random chunks six weeks apart for no reason. And by the time it airs, you've forgotten the first season anyway and it's not worth the time to go back and rewatch it.
There. Just saved you a crapton of consulting money. You're welcome.
ICE shoots protester in stomach with "less than lethal" bullets—had to be rushed to hospital.
Agent leans out of moving car to shoot with one hand—while driving with other.
Injures protester in abdomen at point blank range.
Car was not blocked—attack was completely unprovoked.
Video clearly shows every other ICE vehicle exiting the driveway unobstructed.
Protesters were just holding signs on the public sidewalk.
Incident occurred outside the Broadview ICE Processing Center in Illinois.
Person filming doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.