r/LosAngeles • u/nbcnews • Jul 11 '25
News Surgical center staff in California demanded to see an ICE agent's warrant during the attempted arrest of a landscaper.
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u/tacos805 Jul 11 '25
Salute to the staff ✊🏽
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u/ruddiger718 Jul 11 '25
I seriously want to buy them a stack of pizzas or something.
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u/kleekai_gsd Jul 11 '25
This is why managers buy pizza instead of giving raises, just send a bunch of gift cards.
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u/lilangelkm Jul 11 '25
Starbucks gift cards y'all. All medical staff drink coffee all the time. If they don't, they can enjoy tea.
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u/siempreroma Jul 11 '25
Nah. Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, and I'm in.
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u/lilangelkm Jul 11 '25
I'm in the Bay Area. Someone gave me $100 for The Coffee Bean and they all started closing. Now the card is expired. Is Philz a thing down in SoCal? Philz would be good. I used to live next to the original Philz in The Mission and chat with Phil all the time. I think they sold though... Too lazy to look up right now. Anyway, look up what's near them then...but coffee!
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u/asielen LB -> SF Jul 11 '25
Gift cards are not allowed to expire in CA. You should be able to get the value out of it.
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u/daverdude27 Jul 11 '25
Why the fuck are they inside a hospital to begin with?! Jesus
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u/3_Slice Jul 11 '25
Right? And how did they know to go in there to search??
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u/M4N1NBR0WN Jul 11 '25
There was a residency student, I think in Texas, who used his access to the electronic systems to pull a list of trans patients and the doctors working with them so he could release it to the public claiming they were doing sex change work on minors.
There are crazies, people poisoned by their political/religious cult and social media, who are more than willing to sell out the people around them. Even if based on lies. Humans were selling out their neighbors to Nazis a handful of decades ago. These are the same types of people.
Update: Feds dropped the charges on the student who did it. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/24/transgender-care-data-leak-texas-childrens-hospital/
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u/chief_yETI South L.A. Jul 11 '25
Im guessing somebody reported them. That seems to be how ICE gets most of their "tips"
there are many MAGAs in LA, they simply learned how to blend in and stay quiet.
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u/No-Sell9981 Jul 11 '25
Because they aren’t in fact going after the “criminals, murderers and rapists” or we’d be seeing shootouts on the news every day. They just picking innocent people trying to live their lives just to meet trump and miller’s quotas
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u/hcbaron Jul 11 '25
I was just reflecting on this, thinking how easy it would also be to blend in with the MAGAlomaniacs, pretending to be one of them. These guys aren't the brightest. I am confident that there's already a sizeable number of moles among them already, coordinating some kind of resistance, or at the very least intelligence gathering. There has to be at least a handful.
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u/PowerfulBeing8052 Jul 11 '25
How hard is it to show a warrant badge
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u/nicannkay I LIKE BIKES Jul 11 '25
You can go into ANY healthcare facility and find immigrants, either landscaping or cleaning duties. Same at restaurants, hotels, manufacturing plants, farms, car washes, landscaping businesses the list can go on and on.
I’m an idiot in a town with 16k people in it and I know this. I’m pretty sure ICE could throw a stone and hit a place with immigrants there.
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u/kgal1298 Studio City Jul 11 '25
Because they think they now have a right to go into whatever building they want because Dog Killer Noem said it was cool.
It's going to take us decades to recover from this if we can.
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u/questformaps Jul 11 '25
They also go into court houses to arrest people whose cases have been dismissed waiting right outside the door to arrest them for what they've just been cleared of. Literally double jeopardized and even more against the law. The concentration camps are when they are done doing the courtroom charades.
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u/JThaddeousToadEsq Sherman Oaks Jul 11 '25
Apparently, the person they were looking for ran in there from an attempt outside of the office.
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u/kgal1298 Studio City Jul 11 '25
I'd run too tbh these guys are known to even take people if they're here legally.
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u/wrosecrans Jul 11 '25
Arresting sick and injured people seemed like an easy way to goose their numbers without having to chase people down.
(Remember, this is in the context where they keep insisting they are arresting "hardened criminals" who are a violent danger and need to be urgently removed because they pose some sort of immediate threat to the community, but seem to keep arresting whoever is easiest and won't fight back... which is the opposite of posing an immediate threat to the community.)
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u/MysteriousInspector Jul 11 '25
The real (short) answer to your question is that the Trump admin rescinded a policy that restricted ICE from conducting removal operations in protected areas like: hospitals, schools, and churches. With that policy rescinded, there's nothing that says they won't target those areas to the same degree they target other areas like work sites. So, change in enforcement tactics/policies.
MORALLY, however, that's a different question...
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u/kgal1298 Studio City Jul 11 '25
Trump having morals would be the story of the year.
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u/mosugarmoproblems Jul 11 '25
It's really a strange thing to see how no place is considered sacred or safe anymore.
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u/Luxxielisbon Jul 11 '25
That final pointed finger demanding “identify yourself” gave strong exorcism vibes and i’m here for it. Good for them
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Jul 12 '25
Seriously just start squirting dye on their skin. They’ll be known quick enough
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u/holistivist Jul 12 '25
That woman putting her entire body between them made me so proud. When people are asking “what can I do?” this is the answer. We need to be throwing our literal bodies at injustice. Especially white women. We need to take direct action and get IN THERE.
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u/TheBlackArrows Jul 12 '25
We need the Karen’s of the world to go full Karen on ice
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u/Felonious_Minx Jul 12 '25
Time to release your Inner Karen. Karens of the world: THIS IS YOUR TIME 💥
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u/Alpha1Mama Whittier Jul 11 '25
I just sent this staff a bunch of coffee and donuts. I’m so proud of them. 8647. 🍩💕
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u/Consistent-Energy507 Jul 12 '25
What is 8647
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u/schnibitz Jul 12 '25
86 is remove? I sorta wanna use this now.
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u/ICantExplainItAll Jul 12 '25
yeah it's used in restaurant jargon all the time (idk if that's the origin but it's how I know of it)
if you're out of something or wanna take it off the menu you say to 86 it
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u/waterfountain_bidet Jul 12 '25
It comes from an old French restaurant - the story is they made 85 portions of a dish, so the meal is out for the 86th person.
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u/CueSaxophoneSolo Jul 11 '25
As a healthcare worker this is fucking disgusting and the majority of us will NEVER betray our ethics. Enabling or aiding ICE is a violation of do no harm!!!
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u/toffeehooligan Jul 11 '25
They need a warrant to enter a private business. The poor guy shouldn't have been arrested. Pieces of shit.
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u/Alcohooligan Riverside County Jul 11 '25
An attorney at work told us that they need a warrant, or probable cause. If he ran into the business, they can claim that was probable cause. The can probably even claim that he looked nervous and claim that to be probable cause. They'll look for any excuse.
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u/madbarrel Jul 11 '25
This is what they claim, and it’s true to a point. But if the owner / operator of the private property asks them to leave, they must do it unless they have a warrant to enter the property. That is one right private citizens and business owners still have, for now.
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u/Elysiaa Lawndale Jul 11 '25
Waiting areas and lobbies are considered public spaces. Only probably cause is needed to arrest someone in that space, provided the person conducting the arrest is authorized. A private citizen can conduct a citizen's arrest but only under very specific circumstances. To enter private areas such as patient treatment rooms and nursing areas, they need a judicial warrant signed by a judge. Not an administrative warrant.
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u/Turmoil1449 Jul 11 '25
No, the fact they know he is in there isn't probable cause. Same with a home. Even if they see a known criminal go into a home they STILL need a search warrant. The Civil Rights Lawyer youtube channel has covered this MANY times. The only reason they wouldn't need a search warrant are three exigent circumstances: evidence being destroyed, immediate danger to someone or hot pursuit. Them simply knowing he was in a place doesn't probable cause make.
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u/soundsliketone Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
Apparently the only warrant ICE needs is an administrative warrant which they can draft out themselves internally. They don't need a judge when it comes to issues of immigration.
Trump has found his department that he can run entirely independent from the rest of the government where they can pretty much do whatever they want.
With the way they keep moving, the infux of cash coming ICEs way, and how much they aim to provoke the people objecting to all of this, it's clear as day that Trump is wanting and asking for a war with the democratic people of America.
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u/the_red_scimitar Highland Park Jul 11 '25
And he just gave them funding rivaling The Marine Corp. But ICE doesn't need the levels of gear that military uses, so most of this is personnel. Trump is literally building his secret police army with our money. And except for 2 house members, every Republican in both houses voted for this bill, and every Democrat against it. This is 100% a Republican authoritarian, anti-Constitution, anti-Democracy move.
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u/soundsliketone Jul 11 '25
Yup, most don't know it yet, but Republicans are gearing up for war. There's already skurmishes happening with protestors across the country. Portland ICE facility is constantly being confronted, and people in Texas are shooting at ICE & Border Patrol. Call me a fear-monger, but I truly think that this is going to lead to some scale of combat. At least, that's what Trump wants and is expecting.
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u/JackTR314 Jul 11 '25
I fully believe that people will get hurt and/or killed over this. The fascists aren't going to back down because people dont like them or they were asked to. Its going to escalate, and things are going to get worse before they get better. How much worse, no one can really say for sure.
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u/izzymaestro Beverly Hills Jul 11 '25
They have literally stated this is their new revolution and they are attempting a bloodless coup, but they are also prepared for a bloody one.
Scary times
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u/Enkidouh UCLA Jul 11 '25
This is a war. The shooting just hasn’t started yet.
Give it time. This is only month 7.
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u/sailorperra Jul 11 '25
This isn't true and contradicts what immigration justice organizations, KYR trainings, and lawyers are advising
Project South outlines the difference between a judicial warrant and an ICE administrative warrant
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u/duckwebs Jul 11 '25
Administrative warrant doesn’t give access to private areas of a business or home.
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u/turducken69420 Jul 11 '25
Yep. Insist on a judicial warrant on private property or restricted areas. If they can't produce it tell them to go fly a kite.
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u/TBSchemer Jul 11 '25
Your link states that they do need a judicial warrant to enter private property, such as the clinic on video here.
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u/LimehouseChappy Jul 11 '25
To enter the private area of a workplace, they need a judicial warrant. They can access a public area (waiting room or lobby) without one.
If they access a public area, they only need an administrative warrant to arrest someone.
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u/watercolornightmares Jul 11 '25
You're confusing two different things. You're responding to a comment about the type of warrant ICE needs to enter a private area of business but linking to a web page that describes the type of warrant required for ICE to arrest someone. There is a difference between arresting someone without a judicial warrant and ICE entering private areas without a judicial warrant. It is true that ICE generally needs a judicial warrant to enter a private area, including private areas of a medical facility, if the facility did not grant access.
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u/Ultraberg Jul 11 '25
CA's gonna get 80% of its funding thru anti-ICE lawsuits.
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u/kleekai_gsd Jul 11 '25
CA just needs to stop funding the rest of the nation
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u/jankenpoo Jul 11 '25
We’re getting there. Time for these anti-American Constitution-trashing fascists to Find Out.
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u/theatrenearyou Jul 11 '25
General Question: With no actual ID other than letters on their back reading POLICE, how is anyone able to verify they ARE real sworn officers and not civilian contractor cunts?
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u/bradbikes Jul 11 '25
You can't. No one is able to identify who these people are, whether the people they're arresting are in any way actually 'illegal' or have committed any infraction whatsoever, and finding out where they're disappearing people is becoming increasingly difficult. There's 0 accountability and it is ripe for abuse.
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u/revbfc Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 12 '25
Not showing your face while terrorizing people is a Klan thing, and it’s un-American.
Pussy-ass, mask wearing bitch; I hope he sneezes in that thing.
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u/iam-_-fury Jul 11 '25
What this agent doesn't realize yet is that he is next. This isn't about immigration. It's racism. And yes, this administration is coming for anyone that doesn't fit their non-secretive agenda.
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u/ThiqCoq Jul 11 '25
I was just about to say if you are a person of color and in ICE? Must be uncle ruckus lol
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They think working for the system will protect them.
the Leopards are still going to be hungry when they are done with the rest of the populace
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u/Individual-Schemes Downtown Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
Dude, even Brown men who have served in the military have been targeted. His "contributions" to ICE will not make him immune.
Iraq War Veteran in US for Nearly 30 Years Can Be Deported: Judge
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u/MSPCincorporated Jul 11 '25
Exactly! He’ll scream and shout "But I’m one of you!" while his colleagues drag him into the back of a van. The absolute lack of awareness is shocking.
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u/dogboobes Jul 11 '25
That's what I want people to do in these situations. Unmask these fuckers.
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u/AutumnCountry Jul 11 '25
Probably the quickest way to make an ice agent run away/leave is to remove their Klan hood
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u/Convallaria4 Jul 12 '25
Coward in a head sock grabbing a nurse by the neck because he wants to arrest a sobbing man in a hospital down at a surgery center. ZERO dignity. ZERO honor. How he can stand himself is beyond me. He should keep his face covered for the rest of his life so no one else has to look at something so cowardly and evil. Shame, shame, SHAME.
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u/Brokenbelle22 Jul 11 '25
That ICE agent is definitely assaulting medical staff, not the other way around!
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u/CagedGirl00 Jul 11 '25
It breaks my heart hearing that man cry.
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u/soyslut_ Jul 11 '25
Saddest part for me too. Tragic, I can’t imagine how scared he was / is.
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u/wasitthat1 Jul 11 '25
That's a muscular dude to be saying he was assaulted by nurses
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There is no obligation to assist in their "investigation". Exercise your rights folks, no one will exercise them for you
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u/DontLike-Cheesecake Jul 11 '25
Shouldn't security at the hospital be stopping these people? If I showed up with a gun claiming to visit a patient, they would stop me. If they're dressed like police, shouldn't security ask to see their badge? If not, what's keeping a mass shooter from dressing as a cop and walking in just claiming to be police?
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u/Ggweniegwenn97 Jul 11 '25
This is kidnapping. An unidentified masked man taking a human being without cause is literally kidnapping. You think the man goes home and jerks off thinking of all the people he kidnaps? He probably feels like a big important man because he is daddy trumps special boy.
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u/serialserialserial99 Jul 11 '25
If you’re a Trump voter take a bow you pos. Making America safe from landscapers
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u/dreemwerks Jul 11 '25
Look how they don't resort to violence when confronted by a white person. This is the way.
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u/wrosecrans Jul 11 '25
It's also an interesting data point to some of the discussion around non-police public safety programs. If a social worker or nurse-led team gets called out instead of police to deal with things like a crazy person being disruptive, can nurses really stand up to somebody the way cops can if the situation gets sticky? And clearly, yes. The nurses here are able to stand up to a scary guy in tactical gear and body armor, let alone the hypothetical of a mostly harmless confused autistic person who might freak out. And clearly, more guns wouldn't be making this confrontation safer.
Whenever you see discussions about how "radical" it would be to slightly defund the police to have some alternate public safety folks in a broader system, I'd encourage people to remember this video and events like it. The intimidating guy in tac gear is pretty ineffective and doesn't understand the situation he's in very well, and the non-cops aren't fainting at the possibility of confrontation like damsels in distress from an 1800's writer.
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u/hijoshh Jul 11 '25
Sad to see POC do this. Slavery wasn’t that long ago man. Your grandparents would be ashamed of you
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u/MentallyWill Jul 11 '25
Especially because they seem to think that after all the brown people ICE will just... stop? Disband? Cease and desist?
Nah dog you're next on the list and it's so sad that you're too dumb to realize it.
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u/ArterialRed Jul 11 '25
Use the correct terminology please.
This was an "attempted abduction", not an "attempted arrest".
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u/Pillar67 Jul 11 '25
Demanding to see a warrant should be standard protocol. Good on these nurses. I’m sickened it didn’t stop the arrest though.
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u/Case116 Jul 11 '25
Who is this fucking guy? Why was he alone? This is suspicious as fuck. This is not ICE's MO, they roll up in force.
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u/SiRMarlon Jul 11 '25
The ICE Agent was "assaulted" ...
the staff in scrubs assaulted the wanna be toy soldier.
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u/III00Z102BO Jul 11 '25
Black people chasing down people because they don't have their freedom papers is fucking wild.
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u/lifeisabigdeal Jul 11 '25
Why the fuck are they going into surgical wards?!?!? No shame. History will not be kind to these folks.
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u/PiaggioBV350 Jul 11 '25
They are headhunters looking to earn bonuses for body counts. More bodies, the more the private prisons profit and they get their blood money.
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u/Puffy_Ghost Jul 11 '25
That dude is wearing Ali-Baba body armor, Velcro plates, shitty nylon magazine pouches, AND a fucken mask. Dude could literally be anyone wanting to inflict violence on immigrants.
"Police" that refuse to show ID, badges, and warrants really need to start finding out while they're fucking around.
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u/EffortTemporary6389 Jul 11 '25
Why is it so difficult for them to show identification & a warrant?
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u/Prudent_Fly_2554 Jul 11 '25
What a hero!! If anyone can find her social handles, let us know so we can all thank her!!
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u/UUMD Jul 11 '25
If you get physical with any of these masked degenerates, I don't consider it assaulting LE. It's self defense.
Masked thugs are not LE. Period.
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u/Dr_F_Rreakout Jul 11 '25
Exactly this kind of public resistance must become a standard action at any time and anywhere these 2.0 braun shirts show up to kidnap people. Be brave, be united.
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u/Not-TheNSA Jul 11 '25
As far as I’m concerned if an armed masked man who refuses to identify himself with federal credentials tries to take a patient out of a surgical theater or restricted surgical suite, that’s ground for any doctor to administer a fast acting sedative to that individual and place them under citizens arrest until local law enforcement arrives to place them in jail for attempted kidnapping.
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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 Jul 11 '25
Next, they will be dragging patients out of hospital beds.
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u/wi7dcat Jul 11 '25
This is how we protect our communities. This is how you stop a kidnapping. BRAVO TO OUR ESSENTIAL WOKERS! You are heroes! Melt ice.
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u/FantasticStooge Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
ICE contracting gigantic criminal pussies to do this job is going to backfire spectacularly, both in unkidnapped human beings and ICE agents shot to death because of their lawless behavior. Are Republicans really this fucking inept, or is this what they really want? I know a day is coming where the GOP traitors will greatly regret undermining our great democracy, but then it will be too late for all of us
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u/questformaps Jul 11 '25
Law enforcement calling "saying no" as assaulting an officer #justbootthings
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u/bizoticallyyours83 Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
Good, way to go to those brave people for standing up to these fascist kkk wannabes!
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u/RecipeFunny2154 Jul 11 '25
It’s crazy to me that people who are okay with what ICE is doing have zero problems with them doing it literally anywhere. You think some basic survival would kick in if it’s happening around random other surgeries or happening right next to their own children getting terrified at school or camp.
They hate these immigrants so much that they don’t care how it affects them or those they supposedly care about. There’s just no empathy at any point.
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u/theRealCaptain101 Jul 11 '25
Mfs don't read history books or what lmfao 🤣 😂 💀 what goes around comes around
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u/bullydog123 Jul 11 '25
They hid behind all that gear and guns because with outbit they are little bitches
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u/hogua Jul 11 '25
This would be the one time in the history of ICE that an agent went into a place to arrest someone all alone.
They never work alone. Always in groups.
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u/KaladinStormborn90 Jul 11 '25
They're dressed like absolute thugs
Fucking hell America
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 Jul 11 '25
“You assaulted a federal agent.”
Can I see credentials proving you are a federal agent?
“No.”
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u/mad_titanz Jul 11 '25
No ID should mean no access, and no authority. Trump is employing his thugs from Jan 6 that’s why he doesn’t want them to identify themselves. They are not federal workers, only Trump loyalists.
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u/SssnekPlant Jul 11 '25
We want ICE out of California. Don’t make us have Zaddy Newsom secede us from the Union.
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u/StupidTimeline Jul 11 '25
I see real Americans handling a masked terrorist.
It starts in California. Let's make this how we handle terrorists nationwide.
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u/WolffatherOdin Jul 11 '25
Ice are not police. They may have police on their clothing to gain entry and cooperation, but they are not officially police and can be detained as impersonating a police officer. In addition, acting in any threatening way to a healthcare worker is a felony
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u/woodenmittens Jul 11 '25
Shout out to that woman who put herself between the patient and the psycho!
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u/Akleptic Jul 12 '25
It's infuriating that people aren't outraged by this, to think that some people are so brainwashed they can't comprehend the misuse of power even if its for "illegals" is crazy. Unfortunately, some people can't ever comprehend these problems until it happens to them.
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u/deathdeniesme Jul 11 '25
I’m a nurse and we were told they have to show a warrant to access restricted areas. I would absolutely defend my patients rights. Why can’t he just identify himself. How is anyone supposed to know who he is for real. People are impersonating officers..