'Fed up' crowd in Massachusetts swarms ICE agents attempting to arrest mother

[groundloop]

Source: The Independent

Harrowing new video footage reveals the moment a mob of angry Massachusetts residents descended on federal immigration agents and attempted to thwart their operation to detain a woman with her family.

Neighbors spotted Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials intercepting a mother who was with her teen daughter and her newborn baby at about 11:15 a.m. Thursday on Eureka Street in Worcester. The father was detained by ICE on Wednesday, according to the local immigration justice network LUCE.

[snip]

The dramatic video footage, which has since gone viral online, was captured by a witness at the scene and shows the woman clinging to her infant child as ICE agents attempt to arrest her.

A swarm of 25 locals gathered, with one heard demanding to see identification and a warrant and calling to stop the chaos. “We don’t have to show you anything,” an ICE agent reportedly told the crowd.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrest-mother-video-massachusetts-daughter-b2747948.html

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Gestapo

[Irish_Dem]

9. Nazi Gestapo

[Bayard]

2. This is what its going to take

Good citizens resisting the Nazis. More, please!

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yes calling out the Ice Nazis.

Wearing masks, no ID.
Asking for papers.

This is Gestapo.

[Magoo48]

31. Yes, Hundreds of thousands of citizens.

Consistently and enthusiastically.

[stollen]

55. To include constituent meetings

[C_U_L8R]

3. That's how revolutions begin

The boneheaded magat authoritarians won't know what hit em.

[Grim Chieftain]

22. This is how to stop this coup on our country and democracy

Elected officials on both sides are doing too damn little - if they do anything at all. It's going to take We The People to stand up and say "ENOUGH"!

[Cheezoholic]

4. REPUBLICAN Gestapo! Call them what they are!! n/t

[NBachers]

5. Four flat tires would allow plenty of time for the community to arrive en masse and do some detainment of their own.

[Maraya1969]

7. I was just thinking about that! Of course I've seen it on TV and the movies but it seems

fairly easy to just walk around with a good knife stabbing the tires of these mutations

[bluescribbler]

14. Stabbing tires is actually difficult.

It would be much easier to cut off the valve stems. Quicker, too.

[Attilatheblond]

16. I usually carry a big screwdriver to remove wheel covers as my car's valve stems are hard to reach

I also carry a big rubber mallet to put wheel covers back on. Maybe I need to toss a mid-sized bolt cutter into my travel tool box, since I live where I can see Mexico and some hot headed ICE guys?

[littlemissmartypants]

29. I've got some pruning shears that would probably work, too!

❤️

RESIST!!✊️

[bdamomma]

52. Good

Trouble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Anti-ICE volunteer patrols in San Diego. . .

. . .which could serve as a model for other communities. . .

https://boltsmag.org/how-volunteer-patrols-are-working-to-protect-san-diego-immigrant-communities-from-ice/

[Buddyzbuddy]

8. This is what happens when you leave good people no choice.

I sincerely hope that nobody gets hurt.
Ice stormtroopers need to think about what they're doing and stop. You are doing the bidding of tyrants
Ice, homeland security, private prisons and private for hire armies disguised as security companies should have been outlawed years ago.

[Attilatheblond]

19. My mind keeps flashing to that scene from Milagro Bean Field War

where local sheriff is addressing the obnoxious government agent doing the bidding of developers is encircled by locals protecting one of their own. The line is something about wondering if Custer rings a bell.

Edited to add: Maybe we all need to start carrying face coverings ourselves? We keep face masks in the car because there are a lot of MAGAs here who don't like vaccines of masks and we are not that far from Texas, the measles capitol of the US.

[Buddyzbuddy]

45. Sounds like a good idea.

[Trueblue Texan]

46. I got such a horrific case of the flu A back in March, which I am STILL recovering from...

...I've thought I should start wearing a mask all the time in public. I wonder if I will ever fully recover--and I had the flu vaccine!

[Attilatheblond]

50. Yeah, we got that nasty flu in our house too, and everybody was vaxed to the max.

Wondering if a different, unexpected strain hit that wasn't in last fall's shot.

[travelingthrulife]

56. People will start shooting because Congress and judicial are doing nothing

but warning us.

[Buddyzbuddy]

60. I agree with that statement.

[Hekate]

10. Goddam Gestapo

A swarm of 25 locals gathered, with one heard demanding to see identification and a warrant and calling to stop the chaos. “We don’t have to show you anything,” an ICE agent reportedly told the crowd.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrest-mother-video-massachusetts-daughter-b2747948.html

[radical noodle]

40. But they ARE required to identify themselves if asked

and present a warrant. So they're the ones breaking the law.

[Hekate]

41. You know that & I know that, but this is an admin that makes its own rules & is lawless

So this is where we are.

[radical noodle]

43. Yes, I know

but I have to keep reminding myself of that. There's a certain percentage of people who believe them when they say they don't have to identify themselves and the media rarely points it out.

[angrychair]

12. Break the ice

first order of business if we ever again control majorities in Congress and the WH is to dissolve ICE or at the very least dramatically scale back their ever creeping authority. Really have reached the level of Geheime Staatspolizei and it's only a matter of time before they start killing people.

[calimary]

17. All the more reason to VOTE!!!

There are enough of us to keep Repubs OUT of power, if only we all VOTE!!!

[sop]

26. This cannot be stated enough.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Massachusetts knows a thing or two about starting a rebellion

Aside from the obvious, there was Shay's Rebellion in the post-war period, essentially a farmer's revolt against foreclosures by banking interests.

[Nasruddin]

15. In Worcestor

In Worcester, Massachusetts, no less.

Well that sure is unprecedented. No doubt nothing will come of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Revolt

The Worcester Revolt, or Worcester Revolution of 1774, was a confrontation between American militiamen and the British colonial authorities in Worcester, Massachusetts on September 6, 1774, during the American Revolution.[1]

[bdamomma]

53. ...........................

[Mr. Evil]

18. It's starting.

The fuse has been lit and it's getting closer and closer to the powder keg. It won't be long at all before these Nazi scumbags roll up on the wrong car, the wrong house, the wrong neighborhood and they will get everything they deserve.

[Cirsium]

20. Resisting the Fugitive Slave Law

Resisting the Fugitive Slave Law

In September of 1850, Congress passed five bills known collectively as the Compromise of 1850 in an attempt to defuse North-South tensions over slavery. As a result of the bills’ passage, California entered the Union as a free state, New Mexico and Utah territories were established with the question of slavery left to popular sovereignty; the borders of Texas were set; the sale and trade of enslaved people (although not slavery itself) was outlawed in the District of Columbia; and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 was strengthened to devastating effect.

Freedom seekers were no longer entitled to due process or trial and could be captured solely on an enslaver’s word. Officials who refused to cooperate with the return of freedom seekers could be fined and imprisoned. Although Massachusetts had a personal liberty law—the “Latimer Law”—to protect freedom seekers, Black and white abolitionists also formed the Boston Vigilance Committee and the secret Anti-Man-Hunting League to resist enforcement of the federal law. There were early successes as well as failures. In 1851, abolitionists liberated Shadrach Minkins from the Boston courthouse and conveyed him to freedom in Canada, but another freedom seeker, Thomas Sims, was captured and returned to Georgia. Three years later, the rendition of Anthony Burns, a freedom seeker from Virginia, galvanized Boston. After a failed rescue attempt, thousands witnessed the “vile procession” of federal troops and marshals that conducted Burns to the waterfront and by U.S. revenue cutter back to enslavement.

https://www.masshist.org/features/boston-abolitionists/resisting-fugitive-slave-law

Boston Responds

This law had an immediate impact in Boston. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner declared the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 "a flagrant violation of the Constitution, and of the most cherished of human rights—shocking to Christian sentiments, insulting to humanity, and impudent in all its pretentions." The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society insisted that the law: "be denounced, resisted, disobeyed, at all hazards. Its enforcement on Massachusetts soil must be rendered impossible. The testimony against it must be so emphatic and universal, that no slave hunter will dare make his appearance among us, and no officer or the government presume to give any heed to it. The religious or political journal that refuses to record its protest against the law must be unmasked, exposed, and held up to popular abhorrence."

In early October 1850, Black Bostonians met in the African Meeting House in protest of this new law and called upon their White allies to gather with them at Faneuil Hall to plan their collective response. At this meeting in the Great Hall, together they formed the third and final iteration of the Boston Vigilance Committee to assist freedom seekers coming to and through Boston on the Underground Railroad.

By October 1850, slave hunters came to Boston in search of Ellen and William Craft, only to be thwarted at every turn. In February 1851, Bostonians, under the leadership of Black abolitionist Lewis Hayden, successfully rescued freedom seeker Shadrach Minkins. Later that spring, despite the best efforts of the abolitionists, slave catchers brought Thomas Sims back to slavery. And in 1854, authorities arrested Anthony Burns in the city’s most infamous and last major Fugitive Slave Law case. The Burns case and changing public opinion led the passage of another Personal Liberty Law in Massachusetts, making it nearly impossible to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in the state.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/fugitive-slave-laws-boston.htm

[DownriverDem]

21. I agree, but

my concern is that trump will use this type of thing to declare martial law.

[orangecrush]

25. Then let him.

I think it's time for US to declare martial law

Fuck this shit.

[littlemissmartypants]

30. I have a friend that is rather steely in her demeanor.

She's an IV nurse. Once I told her that I was afraid of something...

She looked me in the eye and said, "If you're scared, get a dog."

The truth is "Action Conquers Fear" and that's why we have to DO Something, as Michelle Obama beautifully said.



❤️

RESIST!! ✊️

[Grokenstein]

34. Your options are resistance and rebellion, or learning to love the taste of the boot.

Neither option is pleasant but these are the cards we've been dealt.

[slightlv]

49. He will... either of his own volition or at the prompting by Miller, et al...

I don't look forward to it, but OTH, I'm tired of living in fear of it, too. Let him do it and make sure there are consequences he and his magats will have to face. That's the next big thing that needs to happen, no matter what form a protest takes. There MUST be real consequences for him and his minions, no matter how much he attempts retribution. We need to keep throwing the ball into his court, regardless of what he does. MAKE him own it; make him accept accountability. No one else has ever done that to him in his entire life. Just imagine the feeling of triumph it will give us when we make that happen!

[bronxiteforever]

23. The GOP evangelical party say they are Christians

but their actions highlight the lie of their claim. The GOP supports wrenching infants and mothers from their arms. We know that their morality is a LIE.

[orangecrush]

24. They ripped a baby from its screaming mothers arms

Just like the Nazis did in the concentration camps.

[OMGWTF]

32. Just like Shitler did in his first reign of t(error). Remember babies in cages? Yeah, not that long ago.

[littlemissmartypants]

28. .

[asm128]

33. The local bastard cops helped!

Fuck every single motherfucking cop!

[Gore1FL]

35. If they don't identify as law enforcement then what is stopping self-defense" or "defense of another" argument?

Could a crowd subdue and detain those impersonating police officers until the real police arrive.

[stillcool]

44. there were local police there

for crowd control....or whatever. Several people were arrested for things like disorderly conduct.

[BidenRocks]

36. Citizens on one side

ICE and an illegal executive order on the other.
I keep thinking of Lexington and Concord.
The Shot Heard Around The World!

Unless chump goes full Gaza on us, millions of armed citizens should scare the crap out of any of our service members.
When fellow veterans are fighting you, you ought to rethink your mission and your oath.
CHUMP IS NOT THE CONSTITUTION..

I felt the power of the people as a Marine during Vietnam. Shouted down as a baby killer, spat at. Then came the Gulf Wars and they were heroes.

Things will change back and our soldiers will be reviled again.

Their choice. Come for us and it's war.

[Martin68]

37. Gestapo.

[twodogsbarking]

38. Gee 60 Minutes where are you?

Hello. Is anybody there?

[iemanja]

47. 60 min is a magazine show

They plan stories months in advance. The job has never been daily coverage.

As for where the media was, you’re reading a story from the media. That’s how you know about it.

[twodogsbarking]

54. OK then. Where are you CBS? Rip that too if it pleases you.

[iemanja]

59. Did you do a search of CBS News articles

and news airings? I expect not. This took me two seconds to find.

https://m.

[twodogsbarking]

61. I did not search.

[MichMan]

39. ICE was lucky they didn't get beaten to a pulp

[Abstractartist]

57. Or

Or worse… it may be on the brink… vigilante action could very easily become a way of life in some areas. The problem with that is ICE would be replaced with army and national guard…. Even though that may happen, the key to STOPPING ALL OF THIS CRAZINESS ….IS TO VOTE THE CONGRESS BACK TO DEMOCRATS.

[Godot51]

42. the American schutzstaffel incarnate.

These things will happen, continue to happen, and will increase happening until we get used to it.

Then we will be lost.

[bdamomma]

51. Call them Out!!!!!!

Call them J-6 Insurrectionists.

[azureblue]

58. If they do not show ID

Then they are kidnappers, and should be dealt with accordingly. Citizen's arrest, for starts. Too bad they got roughed up in the process. "Officer" they refused to ID themselves, so we thought they were trying to kidnap this person. Can't be too careful these days. And there are lots of crazy people running around claiming to be cops. We're just dong our duty as good citizens."

I seriously doubt a citizen could be convicted of assault on an "officer" if the "officer" does not show ID. If a real cop arrests, then that shows collaboration and cover up.

I suggest making signs to the affect of "Anyone attempting to kidnap / arrest a person, or invade a domicile, without properly Identifying them selves before the action, will be assumed to be a criminal, and their action will be stopped by whatever means necessary. They will be subject to citizen's arrest and bound over to the authorities.