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    SWAT doesn’t even use plastic explosives when breaching a regular door unless it is a special circumstance. These idiots just showed up and played gravy seals cowardly hiding behind cars for cover, blasting doors open for a fucking minor fender bender! They didn’t even list charges so all kinds of constitutional rights were brazenly violated. But fuck it, they got a blank check on tax payer funds to cosplay being tactical shit heads. They even fucked those tactics up announcing to the entire neighborhood they were coming.

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    In a statement Friday afternoon, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman said, “Jorge Sierra-Hernandez was arrested because he rammed his car into a CBP vehicle, causing significant damage and obstructed the work of our agents and officers during course of a law enforcement operation. During this incident, agents were assaulted, and additional rioters threw rocks and other objects at our personnel. Anyone who actively obstructs or assaults law enforcement, including U.S. citizens, will face consequences which include arrest.”

    In which case it is the jurisdiction of the local police to investigate a traffic collision

    This is not a CBP case

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    It’s not going to be long before these people start acting like medieval warriors who invade villages, ransack them, and have their way with it’s people.

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    Terrorism perpetrated by the state. They brought what looks like 20+ jackbooted thugs to arrest one man. This is meant to terrorize supporters of the anti-ICE movement. I don’t want to get banned for promoting violence against the “federal agents”, specifically assassinations, so I won’t suggest such things here. Not calling for that.

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      This community is on midwest.social so you’re fine. The Nazi sympathizers that declare any anti-Nazi action “promoting violence” are on lemmy.world.

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      If an unannounced person enters your home, I encourage you to use any and all powers available to end their life to protect yours. Anyone that doesn’t want to dodge bullets can knock first. It’s really a pretty straightforward principle.

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        Easy to say. The thing about violence is that there’s a monopoly and its biggest buyer is the State…

        Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
        

        Malcom X

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    So…Border Patrol is operating more than 100 miles from a land border. Yeah, they’re using the loophole of counting international airports as “borders” afterall. Yay.

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    At no point does anyone in the story attempt to justify the explosive breach. They were looking for a guy who was in a car accident with feds and let go.

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    I don’t know what’s more terrifying, the actions of ICE or the faces of the local news anchors as they report on literal fascism in their own city.

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    In case anyone gets suspicious like I was, the domain name seemed… odd to me. I expected something more like losangeles.nbc.com or something.

    But I did a WHOIS lookup and confirmed the company that registered it is NBCUniversal, which is the legal name of the company.

    I also saw KTLA reporting this, but I didn’t bother to check them. So yeah, seems like real news, for better or worse.

    I hate that we need to check these things now on top of all the shit going down

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      In the US, local news has historically been presented via an “affiliate” model, in which a local company is allowed to air their own programming in a particular region in exchange for a fee. So when you turn to the channel for NBC in los Angeles on the TV, it’s from the national NBC most of the time but for local news it will switch to NBC Los Angeles, which is usually a different company. I would imagine NBC Los Angeles was originally an entirely different company than NBC national that later got bought by them.

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    If they do this for a simple collision, can you imagine how ICE would react if, while they’re off arresting people, a group tipped over their cars? I mean, such a disturbing event would only take about four or five people, which would be terrible. I hope it never happens, especially more than once.

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      ICE claimed that he rammed their vehicle, and that others threw stones and their car. So not a simple collision, from their official point of view. Though that does not justify what happened here.

      I also wonder why this even is a case for ICE and not the police.

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        ICE claimed

        Well the one thing we know for certain is that whatever follows these words absolutely, without a doubt, did not happen.

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        ICE also claims Narciso Barranco stood his ground and assaulted officers with a weedwacker when he was clearly fleeing on the video. Their claims are worth as much as the toilet paper square I wiped my ass with this morning.

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          Well depending on your diet, that square could have been fertilizer, so I’d say it was considerably more valuable than any claims made by ICE.

          Don’t undersell your own shit.

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              My Christian relatives are big fans of the Bible, supposedly.

              I believe there’s something in there about “from dust we were made, to dust we return” (paraphrased) so it would even be biblical, as long as we dry and pulverize the fertilizer!

              This is sounding better and better. I do want a much bigger garden so I can grow more of my own food…

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          They won’t even show their faces or credentials yet we’re also supposed to take their words as gospel truth

          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        In a statement Friday afternoon, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman said, “Jorge Sierra-Hernandez was arrested because he rammed his car into a CBP vehicle, causing significant damage and obstructed the work of our agents and officers during course of a law enforcement operation. During this incident, agents were assaulted, and additional rioters threw rocks and other objects at our personnel. Anyone who actively obstructs or assaults law enforcement, including U.S. citizens, will face consequences which include arrest.”

        ICE are lying bastards and their time is up.

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        I also wonder why this even is a case for ICE and not the police.

        Same reason the Mafia or the Cartels don’t call the police when something goes down.

        If you don’t take care of it yourself how will people know not to fuck with you ?

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          I can’t really put it into words but it feels like this should be the job of the police and that someone should be able to hold ICE accountable for this, AND hand the case over to the police. But the polices does not seem to be much better, so potato, potahto?

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            Indeed, in a working ideal model(see below for more on this*) of society the police exist to enforce the rule/spirit of law equally to all people.

            ICE should ostensibly be a federal branch that is held to account by the government as a whole and deals specifically with customs and immigration related issues.

            Citizens with no customs or immigration issues aren’t really part of that mandate so it should be handed off to the relevant authorities that do in fact deal with that type of ‘crime’.

            Things are so far removed from that, that ICE is effectively running on gang/gestapo rules at this point and the government is actively encouraging it.

            * So, by working ideal model i’m describing a point of view using traditional ideals of fairness and law, that assume the system is working towards that ideal.

            The current system is not at all set up that way, so even if it seems batshit , this might actually be the system working as intended by the current sitting majority power (or if you’re really cynical like me, capitalism as a whole).

            So not only are you fighting to move the overton window in a direction that resembles the storybook ideals of fairness and equality, you are also fighting the existing imposed status quo.

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        Sounds like a little obstruction so they went militant, you can imagine the blood pressure in the room where they were discussing it

        Ramirez said her boyfriend tried to stop the Jeep, but unintentionally hit the truck.

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    My friend and I had this awesome ski trip planned for Colorado. We changed our plans last night to go to Canada instead.

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      Based on how the skiing has been the last few years out here, youre better off going to Whistler anyways. Even without ICE terrorism and its impact on our ability to serve tourists

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        Honestly interior BC or Alberta is better than Whistler. So many nicer hills without the crowds.

        If you live nearby and that’s your only option then great. If you’re doing a trip personally I think you should head inland.