Here's what's going on in the streets of the Malignant Fascist's America every day:
As two masked men dragged her into an unmarked SUV, Andrea Velez tried to focus on details she might later remember – one man’s red shirt, the car’s leather seats, a black backpack inside.
At 9.20am on 24 June in downtown Los Angeles, the 32-year-old was heading into work at a footwear company when the men in gator masks jumped out of their car and started chasing vendors and other people on the street, she recalled. As people fled, Velez froze and held on to her bag.
Suddenly, she recalled, one of the men slammed her to the ground and placed her into his car. The men had “Police” vests, but otherwise were in plainclothes and didn’t identify themselves. She didn’t know why they had taken her.
The men, it turned out, were Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) deportation officers. They were looking to question people about “whether they were lawfully present” in the US, an agent later wrote. Velez is a US citizen who grew up in downtown, not far from the incident.
“They just came out ready to attack anyone,” said Velez, in her first interview since her arrest. “I thought they were kidnapping me.”
A day after her arrest, the Department of Justice charged Velez with assaulting an officer, which could carry a 20-year sentence. The claim was shocking to Velez, who is 4ft 11in and said she had not laid hands on anyone.
She is one of many southern California residents swept up as the Trump administration has aggressively jailed and prosecuted protesters, as well as civilians who film and object to Ice arrests and bystanders caught up in haphazard raids...
We'll stop there. You need to read the rest of The Guardian article, with accompanying videos of her arrest and others, too. The lingering impacts on their lives should infuriate everyone.
The term "haphazard raids" is correct, but missing one key element: these thugs are haphazardly hunting anyone who doesn't have white skin (any Hispanic or Asian will do) in order to meet their Stephen Miller- determined daily quotas. After her arrest on bogus charges, the young American citizen Ms. Velez spent two nights in jail, then waited 16 days for the "Justice" Department to drop the false charges against her.
Would this level of lawless, terrorist, racist behavior by government agents be tolerated in any other civilized country? Well, it is here. What a dangerous, dark, evil time (and also incredibly stupid) we're living in.
By the way, here's the dangerous American citizen the ICE goons swept up:
Brave warriors!
(Photo: via The Guardian)
Look at her! You can tell she's a rapist and a thief! LOCK HER UP!
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