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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums🚨This video is terrifying. And it's another example of how ICE is making everyone less safe......
Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC
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🚨This video is terrifying.
And its another example of how ICE is making everyone less safe.
At Las Vegas International Airport, two people, in plain clothes, are seen trying to handcuff a man.
The man is screaming for help.
When the person filming asks a TSA agent what is happening, the agent replies, Its law enforcement.
But when the person filming walks over and starts recording the people claiming to be law enforcement, one of them tries to swat the phone away.
Then, as more people begin watching, they get up and leave.
The man is left with a handcuff still attached to one of his wrists. He is visibly shaken and says they stole his belongings.
Think about how dangerous this is.
The government is normalizing armed agents, in plain clothes, grabbing people in public, without immediately identifying themselves in a way bystanders can verify. That creates confusion, panic, and makes it impossible for ordinary people to know whether theyre witnessing a lawful arrest, or a kidnapping.
In this case, people intervened They started asking questions, and filming.
If no one had stepped in, who knows what would have happened to that man.
A government that expects people to simply accept unidentified agents, taking someone away without question, is making every person in this country less safe.
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🚨This video is terrifying. And it's another example of how ICE is making everyone less safe...... (Original Post)
riversedge
8 hrs ago
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Blues Heron
(9,256 posts)1. Is that a fake moustache on the ice guy? He looks rabid
obamanut2012
(29,826 posts)5. I literally thought, "He looks feral"
Exactly.
biophile
(1,780 posts)2. TSA agent probably gets a kick back
He might be in on it. Or just a stupid jerk .,
hlthe2b
(115,541 posts)3. Pretty likely not to be ICE given they did not give up.
Given this victim is Asian (Chinese?) I could posit a possibility (to rule out) that I've read about previously and that is that they were agents of that government trying to kidnap him to return to that country. Obviously that sounds outlandish, but I think it was 60 minutes (when it actually had some credibility) that reported on such an episode years ago.
Maybe someone in authority will get more information from the victim. Were the police called to go after those two assailants? That airport security guard did not call others to assist?
No, I don't get it. But there has to be much more to the story that ought to be updated.
orangecrush
(32,130 posts)4. That was a robbery
They took his belongings.