Marilu Mendez said when ICE vehicles began following her and her husband Monday and then surrounded their car on Tallman Street in New Bedford, she took out her cell phone and started recording.
Her video shows a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforement agent using a large hammer to break the back passenger window of their car.
Marilu said the agents were focused on her husband, Juan, but kept calling him “Antonio”, the name of another man who lives in their building.
Juan Mendez is now being held in a detention facility in Dover, New Hampshire, with a hearing scheduled for May 7.
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If you’re inside understand there is no going back from this, you will not be able to vote your way out of this. Go to the protests this weekend.
I read somewhere Donald is trying to make it illegal to protest. Sooner or later he’s just going to rip that Constitution up and he’ll be like, “now Dems… you’re in a Constitutional crisis.”
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if it came out that he has special toilet paper printed with the Constitution’s text so he can literally wipe his ass with it
Go to the protests this weekend.
More is needed. I’m not a history buff, so I don’t know the exact number of times peacefully protesting has worked in authoritarian regimes, but…
“Peaceful” protests (they invariably involve clashes with the military or police) do work (see: post-communist Eastern Europe, Ukraine and the Arab Spring) but when you compare something like Euromaidan to 50501 you’ll see a very clear difference in boldness even despite both being nonviolent.
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If that happens in the US we’ll have CiviI War II.
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I pretty much agree with everything you just said. Humanity is pretty fucked one way or another. And yes I believe the survivors will eventually rebuild but that won’t be in our lifetime. I’m personally just trying to last as long as I can at this point.
Peaceful protests rarely lead to anything against authoritarians on their own. They do tend to gather a lot of people though, who will over time get less and less peaceful.
This is true, but with an important qualifier: Those people choose to become less peaceful. There’s no unstoppable march of history to cause these things; it’s real people like you and me who make them happen. If you want to escalate then you must spread that desire in your community and get them to escalate. The fact that I’m barely hearing a peep about any kind of strike is very concerning for American democracy.
Edit: By the way I said escalate, but there’s no reason that escalation must be violent. Striking and mass occupations (think occupy wall street) are very effective methods of peaceful resistance, but they’re still a far cry from protesting on a weekend.
They also hurt a lot more of their own. We need a critical mass ready to strike or they’ll just pick off the weakest. I’m gonna be asking around about strikes at this weekends protest.
Even starting with a 2 day strike, one where we could plausibly be “sick” and not lose our livelihoods would be a good step.
And won’t feal alone or isolated
Sure, but I think it’s about momentum and building blocks. Can’t ask Joe Schmo to get to the guillotines right now…not even sure I personally agree with that anyway…but we as an American society have gotten very, very comfortable with a life full of conveniences. I think a lot of people are seeing things falling apart not sure what to do. Attending a peaceful protest is really energizing and hopeful for folks that are looking to take any sort of action. You see so many other people feeling the same way you do and it kind of snaps you out of something and you realize you care and your neighbors care. Yes fighting directly against an enemy is needed but a lot of revolution and resistance is also caring for your community and taking care of one another when systems fall. I think there’s a quiet power in just showing up for one another. Why put out the doom message that step 1 is not enough, when it’s going to require step 1, 2, 3…and so on.
As an old leftist who has become disillusioned, i wish the young generation would stop wasting time like we did and skip the protesting bit and go to guillotines. I feel like every new generation discovers the same injustices and jumps the same hoops, then they get jobs and homes and kids and that ends, new generation comes, repeat. We never actually make it past protests before we become unable to do anything more
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Nobody is going to live a normal life anymore if things continue.
Maybe it would be more helpful if the old leftists who wasted too much time protesting started putting their lives on the line instead of insisting their children should do it for them.
Oh I’m ready, but then you get shit on for not being a nice little peaceful protestor
RIP Willem Van Spronsen
So many people are so convinced that other people should commit suicide by cop and not them.
People can’t even stop using reddit or twitter, I don’t think they can even comprehend a fight for their freedom.
Yes, its time for a bit more than protests. We need to start relying on Jury Nullification
Jury nullification only helps if you get an actual jury.
Well we don’t get a home, jobs are being replaced with AI, and no one can afford children. So we can avoid those roadblocks lol
I’d rather tell people to get out of the country if they can or focus on getting out of the country
I can’t wait for somebody to exercise their stand-your-ground rights against these kidnapping fascists.
It would be very unlikely to go well. I remember a case during the BLM protests where police were shooting at a random car, and the person in the car shot back. The police unloaded their clips - surprisingly no one got hurt.
But specifically regarding the law, Stand Your Ground only works if there’s an imminent threat to your body (getting arrested doesn’t count). Basically, you would have to prove that you believed the ICE agent was going to severely hurt you to justify any severe harm to the agent. I’m not sure if there’s many examples of ICE agents doing that
they do that to their own officers who blow whistle on corruption or abuse, they also tend to do that to people they get the wrong address of
Being sent to a foreign prison without due process is certainly an imminent threat to your body
Legal rights or not, your situation is the biggest, belligerent, militarized, fascist gang wants to either kill you or kill you, and everybody knows this is reality right now. There is no good option here.
100% at least go down swinging
Hmm, good point. Before, it was probably in your best interest to cooperate since rule of law meant there was at least a chance you’d get your day in court. At this point, people have nothing to lose when ICE approaches them. Might as well go all out and take as many as possible with you.
Yeah. There’s no always. That will stop them fight. Fight hard. Do not let them do as they wish. Resist
Being illegally arrested does count, i think. Especially with the general trend of police brutality occurring in America. That said they don’t really care about the law here.
surprisingly no one got hurt.
Are you sure this was BLM? Are you sure it wasn’t star wars? Were these stormtroopers you were watching?
I watched that video and I was terrified. If a group of people stop my car and come at me with sledgehammers then I will assume they mean to do me bodily harm. That’s what terrified me most about that video. It’s only a matter of time before “ICE” starts straight up killing people.
Death camp in el salvador or getting shot where you stand. Hmm.
Never go to a second location.
It certainly helps against plainclothes people and hiding their face. You don’t know who is an actual officer and who isn’t.
I do remember that event for BLM. The police were using paint balls or bb guns for their “riot control” after there was a curfew.
This needs the full on force of armed citizen watchdog groups who escort ICE and hold them off. A whole community that is armed and saying “no, this is my neighbor and you cannot take him.” Is going to be the way to stop ICE.
I would love to see the “police free zone” that Portland had during the BLM protests get recreated as “ICE free zones.”
Not to be that person or anything, but the rule of law is
almostdead here in the States. Especially when the current “admin” is ignoring laws to begin with. Stand your ground people, help any who might need it.I’d even go further and say go to immigrant communities and help them stand their ground.
While that may go right or wrong for a few, because people are defending themselves from the murders, the resulting change in tactics accelerates everything and the murders may occur in place.
We are in a very bad place right now in history.
It doesn’t matter. The first one through the door is going to deliver a message to the rest. It won’t be the message they want to hear.
As a wise man once said: Do not obey in advance. Everything you fear the fascists will do if you give them an excuse they’ll do anyway. They’re not waiting for you to do a Bad Thing before they escalate; they’ll escalate whatever you do because their goal is absolute power.
It’ll be a massacre. If we’re lucky, lots of pigs will go down as well, but they have quasi military gear. The ratios aren’t in your favor.
The populace outnumber the police by more than 1000:1. Yes, it could be a massacre, but if the populace want victory bad enough then they can get it. However i’m convinced that Americans would stay at home and stop protesting if police start shooting at them, Americans are cowards. History has proven that the US Gov’t could bomb and burn a US city to smithereens and Americans will do nothing as a consequence (Tulsa and Philadelphia)
300 of those 1000 will take up their pathetic guns and support the police.
Probably so they can get money to “take care of their family.” That’s why I hate the excuse of “If I do what’s necessary, then I won’t be able to feed my kids or pay my mortgage” people because that’s the reasoning of a cop or a Nazi soldier putting a gun barrel to the back of a pregnant womans neck, “I’m just protecting my own.” As if prioritizing your own children over other children at large isn’t anything other than fascist. Those people are self-reporting themselves as narcs and should be feared like the plague. Everyone’s family is at risk now, fuck your own. People need to start realizing the world is bigger than themselves.
Not for nothing but that quasi military gear is pretty widely available. If that’s your concern that’s all the more reason to arm yourself and to start organizing.
Gestapo.
I said that on a reddit post about ICE kidnapping someone, and now my account has been banned, they even went as far as banning my IP adress so any new account I make gets banned instantly.
I consider this a win. They’ll slowly bleed users until all that’s left is the fodder we really don’t want to interact with anyway. Besides, with 4chan’s demise, something tells me the trolls will mass migrate to Reddit.
I hadn’t thought of that. Gosh, can you imagine Reddit getting worse? That’s just spine tingling.
That’s not what usually happens with censorship, though. Censorship can be very effective, which is why it’s so dangerous, and why we have the 1st amendment in the US.
I really don’t consider it a loss, it really was the last push I needed to fully migrate to lemmy. Only downside now being that I can no long keep stirring the pot on Reddit.
We should get IP banned on every public network we can access!
ive seen an increase in shadowbanning, and someone on another forum said reddit has AGIAN updated thier filtering processes. just go on the shadowban sub, you notice alot of people getting banned for no reason at all, simply because thier “new accounts, or inactive accounts” that started posting is being flagged as spam and instantly shadowbanned.
I got banned for insulting musk
I was posting his Doge email adress in the comments, and that would get deleted instantly. But it didn’t get me banned for some reason
Can we dox people on Lemmy? I know in Reddit it’s not allowed but how are the rules here?
No. You cannot.
Unfortunate.
I had no doubs about “.world” don’t worry
So why did you ask?
Is it doxing if it’s government employees carrying out official duties?
Not if it’s easily obtained publicly available information.
I’m asking Seth Gorka and he’s telling me it’s terrorism.
In most instances you can’t. If you think your reason is valid, you’re part of the problem.
This guy is not an ICE member. He is a member of a right wing immigration militia patrol.
There are posts on Reddit about him.
Is he even a veteran? I’m guessing he is not.
It’s possible he can be both. Given the current administration it’s even likely
Technically it would depend on the instance you were doing it on. That said, I’m pretty sure it’s agianst the rules on all of them.
but these are not people
You have a point!
You’re really dumb. Educate yourself and come back.
Why do we need to know that the woman is massive? The title is strange.
harmless joke got mass. downvoted
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At least this one wasn’t masked so he can be publicly ostracized for his willful participation in a fascist regime.
Stand up for democracy and your right to vote.
Spread the word about upcoming fed and state elections.
Get your birth certificate and passport to exercise your Right to Vote.
Why do they need that big ass hammer lol you can do that with a spark plug
My guess would be to intimidate and invoke terror.
I just see advertised swings and a reason to get in close with a knife
Emergency window breakers are about the size of a pen, right?
Yes they are. Sometimes they’re even just on the end of the pen. A small piece of hard ceramic is all you need.
Because this is a Goon. They don’t think. They act. They act most efficiently when it involves hurting someone else. Do not go easily. Fight the gestapo.
Probably to scare people or to feel cool.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
Absolute legend
How long until the media stops being allowed to tell us these things?
Tho ones who need to hear this already don’t.
Or are chearing it on. When they say “I think Trump is doing good but the Tariffs are Bullshit” this kind of thing is part of the doing good.
The south considers this the victory they’ve dreamed of for years.
Finally, brown people being put in their place.
wanna bet they arnt all LEO.
Look at this guy, these thugs are living their best life now that they have a blank check to terrorize people without due process.
ICE have gone too far nowadays.
They’ve been morally unacceptable since day 1.
A republican guy I used to work with was in huge support for ICE doing sweeps during trump’s first administration. I asked him why he was in support of another armed gov’t group going around cities asking for papers. He made it clear that they weren’t going to go after people like him or me. Even after I pointed out what he was saying, he was OK with it. He was educated too. Just fucking morally awful people.
Most humans are really like that. It’s why it is ok for AI to replace us.
There’s a huge fucking understatement LOL. I like you :)
Fuck this infel fuck. Every Nazi ICE shitpile should be targeted and taken out by Americans.
Wait, he’s getting a hearing? We’re still doing that?
I wouldn’t bet on it being anything fair.
