A man was hit and killed on the 210 Freeway on Thursday as he tried to flee federal agents raiding a Home Depot in Monrovia, CA.

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[–] 130 points 1 year ago (13 children)

This is terror. ICE is a terrorist organization. That is why they must cover their faces. No one admits to being a terrorist.

What's more likely to cause me harm today, ICE or ISIS?

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Terrorism is the use of violence or the threat of violence to accomplish political, social, or ideological goals. This is the dictionary definition of terrorism.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Covering the face also means protecting their identity from bad people

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why don't the cops wear masks then? Or judges and lawyers? They are constantly dealing with bad people but have no issues and no masks.

    Stop buying into their bullshit.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    End qualified immunity needs to end yesterday.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    What does qualified immunity have to do with this?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Hold officer accountable, federal and state.

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  • [+] -20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Accountable for what? This guy's death was not the result of misconduct by police officers.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Romero, the UCLA professor, said the Home Depot operation appeared to be in violation of the federal court order barring the government from carrying out these types of raids. Last month, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing federal agents from carrying out indiscriminate immigration arrests based on a person’s race, language, vocation or location.

    They are chasing a person for no crime. They believe he is illegal. No proof, just brown skin. That is racially profiling which is illegal. Also a judge told them to stop this shit bc it is illegal. It's in the article.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    It's obvious, not sure what the other person is talking about. Literally the same mentality that if someone is innocent, they should comply with everything and hide nothing, no matter how unreasonable. That's not right, we should be holding those in positions of authority to a higher standard than those who are not.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Frimpong ordered federal agents not to use those factors to establish reasonable suspicion to detain people. And that all those in custody at a downtown detention facility known as B-18 must be given 24-hour access to lawyers and a confidential phone line.

    Source.

    The man who died was not actually detained, so it doesn't seem to me that his rights were violated even if detaining him would have violated his rights. He wasn't even being chased, as far as I can tell from the article - he ran on his own when he heard that ICE agents were coming. Are you proposing that (in the absence of qualified immunity) cops should be sued for something that they didn't do, but which this man suspected that they might do?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Please read the article again. Two paragraphs above your quote. Your rights can be violated even if not detained. Stop and frisk was famous for this.

    Lick the ICE boots more bv your quote is purposely misleading and has nothing to do with any of this.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    An unintended side effect of all this bullshit I have noticed: there are waaaay more pickup trucks with unsafe, unsecured loads than there used to be. I have had my car damaged from things flying out of truck beds twice this year.

    People are clearly fucking off from the hardware store parking lot as quickly as possible. I totally understand, these poor people are fearing for their lives. I hate all of this so much.

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    This should count as manslaughter.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Just FYI all home depots deploy license plate reading technology

    https://www.404media.co/home-depot-and-lowes-share-data-from-hundreds-of-ai-cameras-with-cops/

    That is probably why ICE is targeting home depot because they need to meet a quota and they know they can find people there

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I hope ICE melts.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's interesting because the person was looking for work, I thought ICE said they were going after criminals?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    A dramatic story that should never have happened.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Very California hed. "The 210 Freeway" vs. I-210. The AP Style issues with that single sentence in the body are enough to make me twitchy. Setting aside that mess, the time element is in the wrong place (should be after "killed" to avoid that unpleasant "on" after what for some reason is being treated as a proper noun).

    Then we have the absurdity of the state abbreviation. First of all, if it's in the same state, you don't use it at all. If for whatever reason you feel the need to in your local coverage area, postal codes are never indicated.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    It made me wince too. But right now, the article's headline says:

    ‘It just breaks my heart.’ Death of man fleeing immigration raid at Home Depot sparks anger, grief

    Was it different before (it says "Updated Aug. 15"), or is it heavily edited in this post?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I went with the published hed at time of post. Maybe an editor at LAT is secretly on Beehaw?

    I really don't have the energy to research right now, but if we've hit the point that a folo is being presented as a rewrite, we're squarely in Ministry of Truth territory, which is abhorrent.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Could be. Don't worry anyway, we've been in Ministry of Truth territory since the moment news outlets started going online. I've checked on Archive.org, and the only snapshot is from after the update, so... yes, that's the world we live in 🤷

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