What alarmed Nicholas Reppucci, head of the Charlottesville Office of the Public Defender, is that the enforcers called in to detain the two men in the city Tuesday morning were wearing plain clothes and did not display badges or arrest warrants.

Sounds an awful lot like kidnapping. So then the question becomes: why didn’t the court officers or local police arrest the so-called “ICE agents”? Up to and including firing on the assailants, if necessary? Because if you don’t show your badge, and you can’t back it up, you are not who you say you are. And that becomes broad-ass daylight kidnapping. And the actual uniformed officers did nothing (I know why they did nothing - the call is coming from inside the house).

Let’s assume for a moment that the abducters here were federal agents.

How long before people get the bright idea that they can pull a stunt like this without being federal agents? Has that already happened?

Maybe shoot kidnappers? Amazing how often your guns are used to kill school children and how rarely to fight injustice.

These gestapo need to be doxxed

What alarmed Nicholas Reppucci, head of the Charlottesville Office of the Public Defender, is that the enforcers called in to detain the two men in the city Tuesday morning were wearing plain clothes and did not display badges or arrest warrants.

Presumably, the courthouse is filled with cops and others with arrest authority, so why did they allow two men in plainclothes without badges or warrants leave with two people?

If the DOGE pirates had been gunned down in the first lobby the invaded, it would have ended there, or at least gone down a different path.

We should not be normalizing this behavior, and setting precedents. Without a badge, you will not be listened to, and you will leave the building immediately. Without a warrant, you will not be putting your hands on any person. If you attempt to bypass either requirement, you will be arrested. And if you attempt to do enforce your demands by force, you will be shot.

Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment? If they're not even bothering to uphold the Constitution in a courthouse you guys are well and truly fucked.

Is this exactly the kind of stuff 2A was supposed to have solved? What were the half a billion guns for?

It's horrifying to see so many incidents of kidnapping in courtrooms. I can't imagine a more blatant and clear example of subversion of the legal judicial process.

There would be no reason to remove them from a courtroom if you believed the court would come to the same conclusions they have. So the logical explanation is that they know that what they're doing is illegal and that these people they're snatching haven't actually done anything wrong. It's shameful that we've allowed this to happen in our country and frankly, it's embarrassing that this is what the once great USA has stooped to.

The knock-on effect of this now would discourage undocumented migrants even just trying to engage with the legal system, being a witness or even reporting on crimes. For people on the fringes of a society it could lead to even worse exploitation and marginalization

First, this is straight up Nazi secret police stuff. Second how did the court know these guys weren't confederates of the folks in court intending a jail break. Where the FUCK were the bailiffs in this unlawful seizure?

So three men just kidnapped a dude.

They need to be banned from doing this in plain clothes. At minumim. At best ICE needs to be abolished.

Questioning the security of the courthouse if you can just do that

It's probably the gesta- I mean ICE