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[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 55 points 3 days ago

Had to check the date on the article because this is not the first woman in scrubs on her way to work being yanked out of a car while telling ICE that she is a citizen.

We live in a dystopian hell and for some reason we keep acting like it’s all fine.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 306 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is getting weirder. Did they realize they were being shitty on camera?:

“I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,” she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. “This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?”

Agents then placed her in a patrol vehicle. She was released a short time later.

“She refused to cooperate and identify herself with all levels of law enforcement there,” said agency spokesman Alan Regalado, noting Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies were there. A Herald reporter saw deputies moving drivers along who were slowing down to watch the stop.

After agents removed the woman from her car, they found her driver’s license in the vehicle, ran it through their system and confirmed she is a U.S. citizen, Regalado said.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article313356223.html

Edit: So basically, she wouldn't show them her gold star. WTF country are we fucking living in.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 89 points 4 days ago

Why would they bother with the license if the ICE facial app scan said she was an immigrant? I thought it was absolute and infallible...

[-] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A racist one

Edit: no lie, my phone autocorrected Fascist to racist (I probably fucked the spelling). Accurate both ways

[-] xzot746@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago

And fascist don't forget that part!

It's quite sad to watch the decline of America.

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Prison sentences for ICE agents who participate. There is no excuse.

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[-] Vijfsnippervijf@feddit.nl 45 points 3 days ago

These ICE agents deserve the worst possible sentence. Especially as they caused many forced disappearances, which are crimes against humanity.

[-] aeternum 138 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I really hope there's an american nuremberg, and i hope they claim they were just following orders, because as with the original nazis, that's been proven to not be a valid excuse. I hope these cunts go to prison for the rest of their lives.

[-] Vupware@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 days ago

You know how many Nazis were hung in the Nuremberg trials? Like 10. Everyone else was basically acquitted. You cannot rely on systems of power to punish transgressors.

Geller vid

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago

Nothing will happen to them. Nothing happened to the National guard who murdered and stabbed students in 1970.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 14 points 3 days ago

Kent state, Blair Mountain, irradiating special needs kids, Greenwood District, forced sterilisation, MOVE....

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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 17 points 3 days ago

You lovingly forgave the traitors of the civil war, you gave high research positions to nazis after world war II, the signs are not hopeful

[-] retreaux@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago

Sadly most Nazis minus a few higher ups went without punishment. Many scientists even ended up working for the US as part of Operation Paperclip. Like the Civil War, the punishment NEVER fits the crime and these assholes mainly get off scot-free with no repercussions. Which always leads to a resurgence at some point.

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[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 days ago

She is visible white and 👱 blond, a medical worker, speaks with no accent.

She was eventually let go.

The first one is why the second one happened.

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 151 points 4 days ago

Only a truly sick society would allow this

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[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 86 points 4 days ago

Since when do we have to show our papers to the secret police?

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 52 points 3 days ago

Since you elected a Fascist dictator in 2024?

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[-] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago

If you are white, around 11 months. If you're not white... Well, haha... Funny thing that.. Umm, let me uhh, ya.. Let me just go look that up...

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 130 points 4 days ago

Uhg. FTA:

"She is visible white and 👱 blond, a medical worker, speaks with no accent. This should be a warning sign for MAGAt as they could be preyed by ICE at any time!"

None of that is a reason to believe she's not an undocumented immigrant. And being brown, curly-haired, not-a-medical-worker is not any reason to believe they're an undocumented immigrant.

Is this objectionable behavior by ICE? absolutely. But not because of who the victim is. but because there IS a victim. everyone in this country is protected by the constitution, and afforded the rights of due process- which ICE is flagrantly violating the shit out of.

Can we please stop with the special classes of people like this?

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 125 points 4 days ago

It is important because of the reason they cite.

By going after this woman, they're making it clear to MAGA folk that allowing the rights of minorities to be eroded also removes their own protection. Even racist assholes should be appalled at the civil rights violations being committed.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

And in making that argument, it signals to the racist assholes that the problem being that she's white, blonde and professional, and therefore the rest are fair game.

which as you say, erodes everyone's rights. But that's not particularly important to me. the rights of all are worth protecting even if that weren't true.

[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 54 points 4 days ago

I think it is about opening the eyes of the racist ICE supporters that in fact they are not safe from what they have initiated. Even if they cannot make the jump to being decent human beings caring about all people, they usually care about what happens to themselves.

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[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 91 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

All ICE agents should be treated with nothing but disdain and ridicule for the rest of their lives. We need a running list of their identities so they can be ostracized. Monuments should be built at Arlington so they can join Robert E. Lee in their shame. Make it a public urinal, right at the entrance.

[-] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago

Name and shame ice agents. Dean Cain.

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[-] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 55 points 4 days ago

I hope she sues the fuck out of them.

[-] falseWhite@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

Nothing would happen. Just a waste of money. And if it came to it, they would just get pardoned.

There is no law in the USA. Trump is the law.

[-] NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

From an outsider looking in, it sounds like more reason to sue or to run to the media. Otherwise, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago

or to run to the media

Frustratingly, the US media is owned by a small concentration of wealthy people who are being further enriched by Trump's bullshit.

[-] bystander@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

Why the defeatist attitude?

[-] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago

Gestures around vaguely

[-] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I hope someone hunts down her assailants one by one, tortures them psychologically, makes them suffer physically and broadcasts it all as a warning to other fascist fuckwits before delivering upon them the fate all Nazis deserve.

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[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Surely Florida residents are all aware that the entire state is within the 100-mile freedom exclusion zone.

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[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago

It's just too bad there wasn't one of those responsible gun owners around to prevent terrorists from kidnapping a civilian. Speaking of, where are all of these gun toting Americans that believe they have them to defend America? Fucking cowards.

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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Side note, why is she bringing her scrubs outside the hospital? Don't you return them after your shift in America, to be washed and such?

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 59 points 3 days ago

No people own and wash their own scrubs. Healthcare is for shareholder profits in America.

[-] Psychonaut1969@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Depends on where you work. They provide them at my hospital, but I still wear a privately owned pair when traveling between home and work.

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[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

These are likely not the drab, standard, facility-provided surgical or operating scrubs that even the I.T. staff has to change in to (or don over top) before crossing the red line into a clean zone, 'red' room or room with isolation precautions. These are the other personally-supplied garments staff wear to look professional in a medical setting. These are the same ones that are sometimes replaced with T-shirts and such on casual friday or department-coordinated Hallowe'en costumes on October 31.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

When the ICE is dismantled, nobody with excellent salaries and benefits should hire those shitbags.

[-] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Hire them? They need to spend the rest of their lives in prison. The most egregious and violent ones should have capitol punishment handed down.

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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

If she was American, she could afford real clothes instead of those cheap paper ones. Stands to reason.

[-] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

These fools are fucking around and about to find out.

Their force will be met with greater force.

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