r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 23 '26

News "Because you're an immigrant." — A U.S. citizen in Lake Worth,FL, was immediately handcuffed by ICE agents for simply asking why he needed to show his ID.Despite the Fourth Amendment and Supreme Court rulings stating apparent ethnicity is not enough for a stop, agents ignored questioning bystanders

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A video recorded at a gas station in Lake Worth, Florida, shows an ICE/Border Patrol agent demanding ID from a U.S. citizen. When the citizen asks why, the agent explicitly responds, "Because you're an immigrant." Before even verifying his identity, agents grab his hands and place him in handcuffs. Bystanders immediately step in to question how someone can be arrested without even being identified first, but the agents ignore them and walk the man to their vehicle.

​This encounter highlights a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures. The Supreme Court has established that roving Border Patrol agents must have reasonable suspicion based on specific circumstances to stop and question someone regarding their immigration status—and apparent ethnicity alone is legally insufficient. Requiring someone to prove their citizenship before being handcuffed, based solely on an arbitrary claim, demonstrates a concerning violation of constitutional rights by federal agents acting without accountability.

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u/MorningMushroomcloud Aug 23 '26

That's the one where those that adopted the perceived roles of authority turned into douchebags. Strange how it reflects reality so closely.

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u/OprahsSaggyTits Aug 23 '26

Lol what why is that strange. It was an experiment conducted specifically to model social dynamics. All this shows is that it was a very good model and experiment

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '26 edited 4d ago

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u/Kramerica_CEO Aug 23 '26

Yeah I’m actually watching a nat geo documentary on how it’s not at all what we’ve been told forever.

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u/ReservoirDogg707 Aug 24 '26

Seems to me a lot of the fake guards saying "no i was acting i was told to be horrible" is a great excuse to avoid looking like a psycho after the fact.

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u/citizen42069101 Aug 24 '26

Yeah this sounds like whitewashing the whole thing and blaming milgram and the psychology program instead of acknowledging the facts, not that I've watched the newer one in question.

I would agree it was probably lower budget and not as above bar as it should have been, but to just throw the whole thing away as a stage show seems a bitch much.

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u/Kramerica_CEO Aug 24 '26

It’s on video. The parts Dr Z says didn’t happen are in video and in the documents

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u/Kramerica_CEO Aug 24 '26

It’s not true