An ICE-watch observer who witnessed the incident unfold on 21 October told the Guardian that masked ICE agents approached Zepeda from behind, pinned him face-down on the ground and put him in a car. The agents then drove the student around for a while before letting him out. With a black eye and his wrist in severe pain, Zepeda walked the remaining half mile to his school, where staff called an ambulance.

The observer, who volunteers with a local rapid response network to document ICE activity, asked not to be named due to fears of retaliation from federal officials. To independently verify the observer’s account, the Guardian reviewed dashcam and phone videos that the observer recorded of the incident.

Local activists and US lawmakers are calling the ordeal the latest example of ICE brutality.

“ICE’s assault and wrongful detainment of Erik Zepeda was grotesque and heartbreaking,” said Adam Schiff, a Democratic US senator from California, in a statement to the Guardian. “There must be accountability for what happened to Erik.”

1 comment

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [S] 0 points 4 days ago

He didn't have a good faith skin tone for Democrat defense /s

  • source
  • 22 comments in c/news@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 44 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

    The agents then drove the student around for a while before letting him out.

    What procedure is this?!

    Either you make an arrest, assume responsibility (including medical) for your prisoner and document the procedure properly, or you don't arrest them at all.

    Breaking a wrist, noticing your fuck up, and throwing them back on the street is not how any of this works.

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 14 points 9 hours ago

    This happened to someone in my neighborhood a few months ago. ICE torqued his arm real bad getting him into the car, then after driving him around and "interrogating" him, they realized he was a citizen and just left him on the side of the road.

    The local cops took a report and started a paper trail, but because it happened outside town, it's the sheriff's jurisdiction, so not much happened.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 9 points 9 hours ago

    Breaking a wrist, noticing your fuck up, and throwing them back on the street is not how any of this works.

    this is exactly how all of this works. have you not been paying attention to police, like....ever??

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago

    They have killed at least two people over the past year by doing exactly this and releasing them in some random location without adequate clothing, money, mental competency, etc, to survive the weather and get home.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 28 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    I love that people have the courage to follow ICE and record their bullshit

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 50 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

    Reminder: Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer REFUSE to abolish ICE.

    If you have Democratic representatives in the next congress, call them and demand that Jefferies and Schumer are not made Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader, respectively.

    Sign the petitions to deny these two those roles as well:

    Petition against Jefferies:

    https://c.org/rqStFCxkRv

    Petition against Schumer:

    https://c.org/yZmVfcDhfS

     

    Please spread the word and links far and wide.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    As far as I can tell none of the other congress people seem to want that job. I wish one of them would step up

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    I mean, would you?

    The press has probably been kinder to Jeffries than to John boehner, Kevin McCarthy, or Nancy Pelosi, and it’s still not exactly flattering coverage. Paul Ryan got off pretty easy (for a guy dumb enough to tell reporters RATM was one of his favorite musicians while being a conservative legacy politician and business inheritor; to paraphrase Tom Morello, Ryan is the machine), and majority leader is a less impactful role, so they don’t tend to get as raked.

    Either one kind of pigeonholes you in congress unless you can then leap to president or vp, but most of the people trying that in the last fifty years have lost and exited politics.

    Plus, you’ve got to engage in politics all the time. I know they’re all politicians, but I really hope they didn’t all get into it because they like constantly negotiating with their caucus members and opponents, then pressuring them, then (allegedly) fucking them over if they don’t vote like they want.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 36 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Stopping this AFTER Texas Kansas and Mississippi turned BLUE is NOT on The Agenda!

    -LITERALLY Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer!

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 9 points 4 hours ago

    I thought they were going to kill me

    Probably because they've publicly executed multiple American citizens.

    I want to point out how NOT NORMAL it is for me to have typed the previous sentence.

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 13 hours ago

    I think they're afraid of education

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago*

    Don't worry I'm sure Schumer/Jeffries and the other DNC leaders will do something about that anytime now. Yup, anytime......

    Though if they don't(and they won't) there's always still becoming armed and organized. Far more valuable than waiting for the same defunct party that helped usher in this age of fascism, especially when they say that justice isn't a priority for them.

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 7 hours ago

    Worse than Slave Patrols. Long ago, they'd get in trouble if they captured and returned a slave and they couldn't work the next day.

  • source
  • [+] 1 point 9 hours ago (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    Yes. Its addressed in the article. Hes disabled.

    "Glenn Goldin, is a retired special education teacher who formerly taught Zepeda and remains a close mentor to him. He described Zepeda, who lives in a group home for adults with disabilities, as quiet, sensitive and a caring housemate, who loves the Golden State Warriors and likes to spend time scrolling TikTok"

  • source
  • parent
  • 17 comments in c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 26 points 4 days ago

    The people who are spending their days keeping an eye on these fucking thugs are goddamn heroes.

  • source
  • [–] 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    I reckon ICE's violence is a part of why republicans got trounced in the election. I hope that ICE can be effectively checked by the new congress.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] [S] 7 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Absolutely, it was.

    The GOP assumed that they had a mandate to reboot the Gestapo, but while the people wanted an immigration crackdown, voters on both teams were radicalized by the horrors that ICE was committing: killing people, chasing down children in the street, making migrant women suck their dicks in port-a-potties, wearing masks and rounding people up in unmarked cars, etc.

    I remember Republican-aligned protesters being interviewed on the news back in December, talking about how this wasn't what they voted for. That was the first time I knew that Donald and the GOP were going to get their asses kicked in the mid-terms no matter what they tried.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] [S] 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

    It's important to remember that our Democratic leaders' response to all this was to fund DHS and issue sternly-worded letters that Donald likely just wiped his ass with. And those same two leaders are acting as if they'll be majority leaders in Congress next year.

    So if you're excited right now, might be best to temper your expectations.

    LA, Portland, Chicago, and Minneapolis showed we can still have a little faith in people, though, so there's that.

    🎯 1
  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    We need massive and sustained protest in DC, people need to occupy the area around the Capitol and make Dems afraid of the people who just elected them

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    As your LEADER I Promise to do NOTHING and THATS why I know you'll Support Me!

    -LITERALLY Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer!

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    A mentally disabled high school student.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    This is a fucking child. These people are monsters.

  • source
  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    They act like marshall law

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments