🚨This is exactly how ICE agents create the very situations they later use to justify murdering citizens.
In the video, they box in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. They approach with guns already drawn, and try to open her car door… while repeatedly ordering her to unlock it, and ignoring anything she says.
And notice how they don’t identify themselves. They don’t explain why she’s being detained. They don’t tell her what crime they suspect her of committing.
To the person inside the car, it’s just a group of masked, armed men surrounding her vehicle and trying to force their way in.
That’s how panic starts.
And when people panic, move their car, or try to get away from what they reasonably perceive as a violent threat, ICE agents open fire, and later claim the vehicle was “used as a weapon.”
Law enforcement cannot detain people without legal justification. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and officers are expected to clearly communicate their authority, and the basis for their actions.
They are supposed to de-escalate situations.
Instead, they use tactics to create fear and confusion… making it more likely someone will panic, and easier for agents to claim deadly force was necessary, while they violate the person’s constitutional rights.
When these tactics become standard practice, accountability becomes nonexistent.
ICE has shot and killed yet another man, this time a 26-year-old Colombian in Maine who was not the target of their investigation.
This comes after they killed a Mexican man, who was also not the target of their operation, in Houston last week.
(https://t.co/XYE6xZFRUj)
here’s an update on keith porters case from organizers and relatives:
1. LAPD took six months to produce a report. They refused to name his killer
2. community members and journalists with the LA Times exposed Keith Porter’s killer themselves. The killer’s name is Brian Palacios
She's still in the Israeli torture prison btw, since everyone is talking about @RoKhanna being detained for a few minutes. Apply as much pressure as you can please.
What Isabel is being put through is unconscionable, and reading the details, my gut tells me the man who attacked her is a predator who's done this to others and gotten away with it because he knows that the Hong Kong judicial system is prejudiced against sexual assault victims.
a lot of people, especially westerners, especially-especially americans, conflate considering others with being controlled & respond with defiance. it’s very weird behavior.
His name is Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He was one step away from earning his worker's permit and leaves behind his sons who have spoken out about how his father was scared and trying to protect his work van and tools. The ICE agents that shot him were in an unmarked car.
“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”