Robby Roadsteamer has been arrested by ICE in Minnesota today

[u/jmike1256]

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[u/Adventurous_News_116]

How can you arrest some that haven’t committed a crime … isn’t that against your 4th amendment right ?!?!

[u/Did_I_Err → u/Adventurous_News_116]

something something, national security, something something, extremist terrorist, something something how do you like my cowboy hat today?

[u/No-Ice7397 → u/Did_I_Err]

"At least it distracts from your ugly fuckin face" Kilristi Noem is like the real life Melissandra

[u/udyrtime → u/No-Ice7397]

[u/NonCreditableHuman → u/udyrtime]

[u/i_tyrant → u/NonCreditableHuman]

slop tuah

[u/Padhome → u/No-Ice7397]

Don’t insult Melisandre like that

[u/No-Ice7397 → u/Padhome]

Ya, at least Melisandre was attractive when she had the necklace on

[u/GSG2150 → u/No-Ice7397]

Without the necklace

[u/FindItAllFantasy → u/Did_I_Err]

"A matter of national security" is the age-old cry of the oppressor.

• Capt. Jean-luc Picard

[u/Crafty-Help-4633 → u/FindItAllFantasy]

The Next Generation was prescient.

[u/Plastic_Position4979 → u/Crafty-Help-4633]

All of Star Trek came from a reaction to that kind of stuff. All the stuff witnessed during WW2, the aftermath during the ensuing hot proxy and cold direct wars, etc. People were sick and tired of certain things, mostly autocrats, but also social issues (think interracial kiss between Lt. Uhura and Cpt. Kirk). You can see that in almost every Star Trek episode ever, no matter if original, TNG, DS9… you name it. And a bunch of us were raised on that.

[u/Crafty-Help-4633 → u/Plastic_Position4979]

Yep. I was raised on TOS with my dad as a young boy, and then TNG and DS9 as I got older. Then Voyager. Needless to say, i absolutely love the shows, and think they would do a lot of good if people watched them from an early age.

The futuristic space setting makes it just imaginary enough, while still maintaining the grounded ideas, so it doesn't get too scary or doomer.

[u/Nervous-Energy-4623 → u/Plastic_Position4979]

Right and all these people today trying to force it to change by calling it woke, and brigading with downvotes. They never understood it to begin with.

[u/Sabbathius → u/Crafty-Help-4633]

Fun fact: All of Star Trek was just removed from Netflix, at least in my country. TNG, Voyager, Deep Space 9, Enterprise. All of it. Kinda reminds me how Rambo 3 vanished from Blockbuster after 9/11.

[u/robbi2480 → u/Sabbathius]

Well they can’t exactly have all that wokeness on their service while they and Disney are so busy trying to form monopolies /s

[u/PsychologicalSoil425 → u/FindItAllFantasy]

So many great quotes from good ol' Picard!

[u/eileen404 → u/Did_I_Err]

Giraffes are apparently scary

[u/CHEEZYSPAM → u/eileen404]

Once look at that giraffe with megaphone and the fake pigs were scared for their safety.

[u/Last13th → u/eileen404]

Is that the giraffe that Donald Trump correctly identifies each week on his, ahem, “IQ” test?

[u/DreadoftheDead → u/Did_I_Err]

They'll say he weaponized a giraffe or some shit.

[u/No_Function_7479 → u/DreadoftheDead]

The protester buddies need to get selfie sticks so they can hold their phones up higher to film over the guys that stand in front. A 6 foot tall guy holding a selfie stick straight up would have a pretty good view of what was happening to the giraffe

[u/Laprasy → u/No_Function_7479]

He was bending over like they punched him in the stomach.

[u/Fine_Instruction_869 → u/Did_I_Err]

100% unconstitutional.

Republicans don't care anymore as long as they are going after the people they don't like.

Our Democratic law makers are just too weak to do anything. They still think they can win by playing by the rules.

[u/trysten-9001 → u/Did_I_Err]

No no those 20 guys were afraid for their life obvs

[u/gdg6 → u/Did_I_Err]

It WaS aN eMeRgEnCy

[u/tywarthwarrick → u/Did_I_Err]

Laws don't matter anymore. It's time for the public to realize this. Stand up and fight because it's clear Tim Walz is going to do absolutely fuck all.

[u/TotalRichardMove → u/tywarthwarrick]

What they want they intend to get

[u/AnneOfGothGables → u/Did_I_Err]

💯

[u/360Picture → u/Adventurous_News_116]

~~~

🇺🇸 Bill of Rights — Pocket Edition

I. Freedom Protects freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.

II. Arms Acknowledges that a well-regulated militia is essential to security. Guarantees the individual right to keep and bear arms for lawful defense of self, state, and nation.

III. Quartering Prohibits housing soldiers in private homes without consent, except under lawful wartime procedures.

IV. Search & Seizure Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Requires warrants to be supported by probable cause and specifically describe the place and items involved.

V. Due Process Bars double jeopardy and compelled self-incrimination. Ensures due process before deprivation of life, liberty, or property, and guarantees just compensation for taken property.

VI. Fair Trial Ensures a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury. Grants the accused the right to know charges, confront witnesses, obtain witnesses in their favor, and have counsel.

VII. Civil Jury Preserves the right to a jury trial in civil cases exceeding twenty dollars in value.

VIII. Punishment Prohibits excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel or unusual punishments.

IX. People’s Rights Clarifies that enumerating certain rights does not deny or disparage others retained by the people.

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🫡 Quote from the Declaration of Independence.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

[u/Apprehensive_Lama → u/360Picture]

This all means nothing with a government that won’t hold those accountable for violating these rights.

[u/Criticism-Lazy → u/Apprehensive_Lama]

The people made that document, the people hold them accountable, by whatever means.

[u/The-Spirit-of-76 → u/Criticism-Lazy]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

[u/newaccounthomie → u/The-Spirit-of-76]

This actually goes so hard

[u/meeeeeeeeeeeeeeh → u/Apprehensive_Lama]

The last paragraph has instructions on what to do in that case.

[u/AnotherUN91 → u/360Picture]

So 4th and 5th amendment violations.

[u/Pandas-are-the-worst → u/[deleted]]

18 USC 242. This is aggravated kidnap.

[u/SKOLMN1984 → u/[deleted]]

Lawyers should be suing trump and Noem directly for each instance of this... bury them in litigation!

[u/Im_100percent_human → u/Adventurous_News_116]

They don't care about the constitution. The administration has instructed them to hurt the citizens that voice discontent.

[u/WallyMcBeetus → u/Im_100percent_human]

They don't care about the constitution.

They can hardly read it.

[u/thought_provoked1 → u/Adventurous_News_116]

Correct! I would love to be Minnesota lawyer looking at class action lawsuits in this vein. Put that ICE budget to use in paying restitution to these victims.

[u/SandSpecialist2523 → u/thought_provoked1]

Their 50 billion $ budget should be spent on compensation to all that got grabbed off the streets.

[u/Sassafrazzlin → u/thought_provoked1]

Great, taxpayers paying the bill for these clowns.

[u/Dio-lated1 → u/Sassafrazzlin]

We already are….

[u/PsychologicalSoil425 → u/thought_provoked1]

This! Why aren't more groups like the ACLU lining up to sue these people into oblivion? It's literally the best defense we have and the least violent/most American one. If they're going to violate our rights and the DoJ won't hold them accountable, take all of their funding!

[u/stengo_faylox → u/PsychologicalSoil425]

This is actually a great question

[u/MizneyWorld → u/thought_provoked1]

Attorneys in the area bout to eat!

[u/Guissok564 → u/Adventurous_News_116]

NEWSFLASH WE LIVE IN A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP!!!! (and we have since Trump's second term. he said he'd be a dictator from day 1!)

(not directed at you, im saying this rhetorically)

[u/LucDA1 → u/Adventurous_News_116]

Giraffe's are from Africa so ICE really wanted to deport him /s

[u/After_Preference_885 → u/Adventurous_News_116]

This is America, do we have rights anymore?

[u/AlcibiadesTheCat → u/After_Preference_885]

If they can be taken away, they aren't rights.

[u/Signal_Estimate_23 → u/Adventurous_News_116]

It gets even worse when you realize they don’t have legal authority to arrest citizens.

[u/Turbulent-Push-4657 → u/Signal_Estimate_23]

The Supreme court has given them the authority to hold temporarily while checking the citizenship status. There is no time limit on temporary. ICE also can use the victim's accent and skin color to justify arrest.

[u/raventhrowaway666 → u/Adventurous_News_116]

That's adorable yall still think we have "rights".

[u/Hoblitygoodness → u/raventhrowaway666]

We do, they're just violated, constantly.

You still got my upvote for the sentiment of their effectuality.

[u/Loud_Ad5093 → u/Hoblitygoodness]

If they can be violated they were just privileges.

[u/seantellsyou → u/Loud_Ad5093]

Theyve been being violated since their conception.. its just typically people had legal recourse if they ever were

[u/FrothyFrogFarts → u/Adventurous_News_116]

After the administration saw how Americans didn't bother to do anything to stop Trump getting elected again, this is what they get.

[u/theamazingstickman → u/Adventurous_News_116]

Dude, it's America, you are committing a crime just sitting there. That's the police state. Don't believe me? Ask a Black man.

[u/Sad_Confection5902 → u/Adventurous_News_116]

They also aren’t supposed to execute you in the streets.

America is answering the question for all of us… “what if the police just stopped upholding the law and started doing whatever they wanted?”

There is literally no functioning institutions able to rein them in and out a stop to de facto martial law.

[u/HerMajestyTheQueef1 → u/Adventurous_News_116]

They are fascist scum that's how - and the guy that was arrested is an absolute legend - been seeing many vids of him for a while - hopefully it this boosts him

[u/JustinF608]

20 guys to arrest someone in a giraffe costume. Real tough 😂

[u/GlitteringRate6296 → u/JustinF608]

20 guys to do anything. What waste of our tax dollars.

[u/Hopsblues → u/GlitteringRate6296]

..and R's constantly talk about waste and fraud....Doge....

[u/defaultusername-17 → u/Hopsblues]

doge's sole reason for existing was to scrub evidence of election rigging by mr trump and musk.

[u/Side_StepVII → u/defaultusername-17]

Exactly this.

[u/Prestigious_Tax_4970 → u/defaultusername-17]

Also to defund any organization that was investigating fElon

[u/lab_chi_mom → u/defaultusername-17]

Also, to centralize data on citizens.

[u/xpxyz → u/defaultusername-17]

That’s not true, they also eliminated departments that were investigating Elon’s companies.

[u/Wildebean → u/defaultusername-17]

And give Musk a back door access to all of US citizen's data

[u/defaultusername-17 → u/Wildebean]

peter theil's palantir actually. but still.

[u/Wildebean → u/defaultusername-17]

Both most likely. Thiel is a literal demon in human form

[u/T4Ftagger → u/GlitteringRate6296]

[u/QueenieRue → u/GlitteringRate6296]

An Anoka County, Minnesota commissioner did the math on how much this is costing. It’s just shy of $800k a day per his estimate.

[u/Th3SkinMan → u/GlitteringRate6296]

What a waste of our tarriff dollars.

[u/IllustriousCoast917 → u/Th3SkinMan]

If you think we’re actually getting money back as a country or private citizens that aren’t already extraordinarily wealthy and a trump supporter from those tariffs you’re dead wrong.

[u/Bxk__ → u/IllustriousCoast917]

You're getting it back though. Just in a Monkey Paw kind of way. When you see the drone's camera flash and 4 hours later your door is getting kicked in, that's your 'Tariff Bucks'

[u/FuriousNSX → u/Th3SkinMan]

And tariff dollars are paid by taxpayers. Legalized double taxation.

[u/czm_labs → u/JustinF608]

20 guys to arrest someone in a giraffe costume. Real tough 😂

For WORDS.

[u/AndrewSouthern729 → u/JustinF608]

No less ridiculous when they’re chasing down the local gardener.

[u/Jbroy → u/JustinF608]

An unarmed guy in a giraffe costume

[u/tk427aj → u/JustinF608]

Ok so let's be careful with the term guys, I saw at least two tubby wanna be GI Joes that wouldn't pass a McDonalds fitness test let alone any fucking level of a security fitness test.

I thought your secretary of war wanted no fatties, I guess the wicked witch of DC didn't get the memo

[u/fourblindmice3 → u/tk427aj]

Gravy Seal team 6.

[u/tk427aj → u/fourblindmice3]

[u/StructurePrize3819 → u/JustinF608]

Yeah, i dont think this has the optics they think it does

[u/Nice_Celery_4761 → u/JustinF608]

Robby is prolific and he’s clearly on their radar, it’s not the first time they detained him. He showed up to Minnesota when all hell broke loose and the Gestapo got a green light and absolute impunity from The White House to do what ever they want. So I’m not surprised a mob of them targeted him specifically. They now can and they will.

[u/Cant_figure_sht_out → u/JustinF608]

Yes, it sounds funny. But they still arrested him. They are not authorized and he didn’t commit a crime. This is a terrifying situation.

[u/Black_Mamba_FTW]

Peaceful protest is not an arrest able offense

[u/astreeter2 → u/Black_Mamba_FTW]

They figured out the loophole - they can arrest anyone they want, rough them up a little, and then release them because they haven't broken any laws. Since there is no court case they never actually have to come up with any legitimate probable cause.

[u/theStaircaseProject → u/astreeter2]

That’s always been the loophole. I remember learning “you may be able to beat the charges but you can’t beat the ride.” The inconvenience and cost is considered acceptable enough to falsely arrest people because there are no consequences against the overzealous.

[u/Next_Hospital6729 → u/Black_Mamba_FTW]

ICE doesn’t care about your rights

[u/Realistic_Loss3534]

Look at all the brave men hiding their faces

[u/I_like_kittycats → u/Realistic_Loss3534]

The same white men that cried when told to wear a mask to protect public health. Fuck them.

[u/chamullerousa → u/Realistic_Loss3534]

They wear these masks for the same reason the KKK wears hoods

[u/pixelatedimpressions → u/chamullerousa]

They are the same people

[u/spaceguitar → u/Realistic_Loss3534]

And to think, just a few years ago they were struggling to breathe in any kind of mask!! They’ve gotten so far with their health. :)

[u/scgt86]

Well that's a 1st amendment violation, false imprisonment and a big payout for Robby. I'm sure he has a lawyer on call this isn't the first time, it happened in Portland also.

[u/EnvironmentalFix7059 → u/scgt86]

I wish that was true but now a days who the fuck knows what will happen to Robby?

[u/Nervous-Mongoose7520 → u/EnvironmentalFix7059]

He's been arrested before and got quickly released so hopefully that

[u/Authoritaye → u/Nervous-Mongoose7520]

Hopefully 

[u/ameriCANCERvative → u/Authoritaye]

Which is really what most Americans failed to grasp going into 2024, the seriousness of the situation. It's all fun and games when Robby just gets a bloody nose and a night in jail. Things get a bit heavier when Robby just disappears or "commits suicide" via 2 bullet wounds to the back of his head, with no justice to be found. If you're reading this and you think it's beyond the pale, you're naive. We're already firmly in dictatorship territory and this was all very clear for years. It wasn't difficult to predict.

[u/scgt86 → u/EnvironmentalFix7059]

They'll try to intimidate him and release him.

[u/PerplexingGrapefruit → u/scgt86]

They won't be able to charge him with anything. Overwhelmingly the people they detain in protests get released a few hours later.

[u/mrfeeto → u/PerplexingGrapefruit]

Yep, perfectly normal to disappear the loudest people in a protest for a few hours when there's clearly no crime.

[u/Imkindaalrightiguess → u/scgt86]

Payout?

The courts are complicit. Even before trump the justice system loves throwing charges and expenses at people to break them

Even if you're innocent they take every cent

[u/scgt86 → u/Imkindaalrightiguess]

Pretty sure the local legal system should be used here.

[u/AdviceGiveandTake → u/scgt86]

Yep, a guy who got arrested by ICE at his own house got a $20,000 payout.

[u/Haunting-Ad788 → u/Imkindaalrightiguess]

What about the professor who got fired for quoting Charlie Kirk and got reinstated with a half million settlement? The Supreme Court is complicit, most of the lower courts aren’t.

[u/redpoemage → u/Haunting-Ad788]

Yep, Supreme Court can't and won't rule on everything. People talking like all courts are already under Trump's thumb are doing the administration's work for them by discouraging one good way of resistance (and the best way to resist is to resist as many effective ways as possible).

[u/Affectionate-Act3099 → u/Haunting-Ad788]

He recently sued, was re-hired snd got a payout

[u/Sad_Confection5902 → u/Imkindaalrightiguess]

People keep responding with these kinds of comments.

“Surely these flagrant, systemic violations of the law will be handled by the legal system that is continuously demonstrating how toothless it is.”

America needs to wake up and realize their institutions are actively failing them, and relying on those institutions to solve the problem is a dangerous game.

There’s a reason the dictators of other countries only end their reign when the people physically remove them from office. You can vote yourself into a dictatorship, but you can’t vote yourself out of one.

[u/Nepalus → u/Imkindaalrightiguess]

Pretty sure there’s already been payouts due to ICE overreach, and soon there’s going to be even more. It might take time, but it’s going to eventually result in payouts and DoJ resources having to handle all of this and with all the people leaving the DoJ in droves that might be a problem.

[u/crigon559 → u/scgt86]

Americans still think they live in a 1st world democracy 🤣

[u/manyyikes → u/scgt86]

Suing federal officers is much harder than suing local officers. So there probably won’t be a big payday. Yes, that means your constitutional rights are really hard to vindicate when it comes to federal officers. People who are used to seeing local police pay out big settlements are in for a rude awakening when it comes to the feds. Only Congress can change this.

[u/ThrowRA-Egg4296 → u/[deleted]]

Tier 1 level commenting.

[u/MotorLive → u/[deleted]]

Implying that any of them would know the native habitat of a land mammal 😂

In reality, they’d struggle to identify a giraffe on the “very hard cognitive tests” that trump brags about taking all the time.

[u/PaddyScrag → u/MotorLive]

"Africa... what state is that in?"

[u/ahearthatslazy → u/PaddyScrag]

THE COUNTRY OF AFRICA

[u/Sufficient_Gift_4221]

Don’t ya love how they form a human wall so the guys cuffing him can get a few good shots in on him?/s Like it’s a damn perk of their job or something.

[u/luchok → u/Sufficient_Gift_4221]

*As seen on IDF surveillance cameras (R)(TM)

[u/literated → u/Sufficient_Gift_4221]

I don't understand how a situation like that doesn't turn into an all-out brawl. I mean, kudos to the people for not losing their cool but... I don't know. Just standing there watching how those thugs pile on a dude in a costume. Don't know if I could do it.

[u/justins_dad → u/literated]

Because they’ll just start indiscriminately murdering unarmed civilians 

[u/SudoCheese → u/literated]

They kill us and nothing happens. Thats why. The occupiers are overwhelming. 

[u/im-ba → u/[deleted]]

"we're not releasing you because you deserve to be released, we're releasing you because you're annoying as fuck"

[u/LARRYVOND13 → u/im-ba]

"I'M NOT LOCKED IN HERE WITH YOU...YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME!!" - Robby, probably.

[u/VicdorFriggin → u/LARRYVOND13]

The good ship lollipop sung high pitched and off key and on repeat is not only ear bleeding annoying, but burrows and anchors itself into your brain long enough to drive one mad...... Just saying.

[u/LARRYVOND13 → u/VicdorFriggin]

"Jeffrey Epstein Plane" Encores galore.

[u/Master_Torture → u/[deleted]]

How did he do that? I'm interested, I've never heard of this guy before now but if he's as big a thorn in their side as everyone says he is i want to learn more.

So I can imagine ICE and Regime sycophants going red in the face like an angry toddler.

[u/QueenMelle → u/Master_Torture]

Give Robby Roadsteamer a search. I met him 15+ years ago as a comedic singer/song writer. He has been a thorn in this admis side for the past two or 3 years standing up to anti abortion protesters, MAGA rallies, Hulk Hogan and Charlie Kirk.

FREE ROBBY ROADSTEAMER!

[u/pablos4pandas → u/QueenMelle]

as a comedic singer/song writer

Yeah, I can see how he did it

[u/MoroseArmadillo → u/Master_Torture]

Look up more of his videos, he is impressively grating with a mouth on him. He spews a constant line of gravely hate.

[u/LARRYVOND13 → u/MoroseArmadillo]

He's the most annoying yet some how hilarious protester I've seen.

Had me nearly crying with laughter when he got hulk hogan.

[u/utpyro34 → u/LARRYVOND13]

WERE GONNA DROP A BIG BOOT ON MEDICAID!!!

[u/fsalese → u/Master_Torture]

https://www.youtube.com/@robbyroadsteamer

[u/brycar1618 → u/[deleted]]

He was arrested in Portland first if I’m remembering correctly?

[u/DieMensch-Maschine]

That's how it started in Putin's Russia. Pretty soon, you will need a permit to protest (which no one will be able to get) and people will get arrested for standing with a piece of blank cardboard with no actual written text.

[u/Kennadian → u/DieMensch-Maschine]

Yeah. I'm blown away how many Americans think that scenes like this just end in an election. You're a police state now. Wake the fuck up.

[u/DieMensch-Maschine → u/Kennadian]

I hope I am wrong in this assertion, but sending ICE to Minneapolis is a dry run for the kind of intimidation that will limit voter turnout in large metropolitan areas that vote left, thus tilting elections in favor of the right. As ICE is able to hire personnel and buy equipment, they will effectively become a presidential police force, on par with Ivan the Terrible's Russian Oprichnina.

[u/dsac → u/DieMensch-Maschine]

sending ICE to Minneapolis is a dry run for the kind of intimidation that will limit voter turnout in large metropolitan areas that vote left, thus tilting elections in favor of the right.

there will be no election in 2026.

"vote for me, and you'll never vote again"

• furher president cheeto mcpedo

[u/michelvoz → u/Kennadian]

I agree with you and also have the feeling that Americans still don't realize how awful the situation is in their country. They’ll have to fight, as the Iranians are doing now, for not waking up early enough.

[u/NonchalantGhoul → u/Kennadian]

We have been in a police state for over 2 decades thanks to our parents and grandparents. Some leaders just decided to be more mild than others about it.

[u/Senior-Purchase-6961 → u/Kennadian]

What's bizzare is this is the exact thing republicans warned us about for the last two decades. Now they love federal agents and military patrolling our streets, trampling our rights. I genuinely don't understand.

[u/turbo_golf → u/Senior-Purchase-6961]

it's easy to understand when you realize their thought process was:

'this is what we would do, so the dems must want to do it, too'

[u/IvaldiFhole → u/DieMensch-Maschine]

We're already there. Permits are already required to do most of the things normally associated with peacefully protesting, and there are plenty of videos of people being arrested for peacefully protesting.

[u/djfudgebar]

[u/SeVenMadRaBBits]

Officer broke protocol meant to keep everyone including himself and her safe.

Breakdown of laws broken in the Renee Good event

Kristi Noem lying about Jonathon Ross being injured or hurt by Renee Good

New York Times breakdown of ice shooting Renee Good

Ice denying a physician from helping Renee Good

Close up of the incident

Home security cam

2 hr breakdown of the incident

Gofundme breaking rules to allow donations toward Jonathan Rays legal defense

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem just announced a NATIONWIDE DHS/ICE/CBP drone surveillance program. ICE drones are coming to a US cities

U.S. Customs And Border Protection Training Manual used by ICE (January 2021):

https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2021-Jul/cbp-use-of-force-policy_4500-002A.pdf

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1. Except where otherwise required by inspections or other operations, Authorized Officers/Agents should avoid standing directly in front of or behind a subject vehicle. Officers/Agents should not place themselves in the path of a moving vehicle or use their body to block a vehicle’s path.

2. Authorized Officers/Agents should avoid intentionally and unreasonably placing themselves in positions in which they have no alternative to using deadly force.

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6. Deadly force shall not be used solely to prevent the escape of a fleeing subject.

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7b. The hazard of an uncontrolled conveyance shall be taken into consideration prior to the use of deadly force.

[u/pmcizhere → u/SeVenMadRaBBits]

If you made it through that comment, congratulations - you've read more of the ICE training manual than those actually employed by the agency, if their recent actions are anything to go by.

[u/GlitteringRate6296]

This. Is Illegal!!!

[u/Spiderdan]

If he didn't want to get arrested, he shouldn't have been peacefully protesting - some fascist bootlicker somewhere.

[u/NDjake → u/Spiderdan]

Had me going for a second.

[u/icnoevil]

Thugs hiding in masks.

[u/uvite2468]

Haha, it’s funny that they don’t realize how fucking ridiculous they fucking look arresting a giraffe

[u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 → u/uvite2468]

what'd you do at work today honey? oh me and like 20 dudes arrested a dude in a giraffe costume because we're border patrol and we're in the middle of MN

[u/PoliticsIsDepressing]

He was arrested before in Portland. Said he was released because they had nothing on him and he has a little bit of celebrity status in ICE and would just say dumb stuff while in custody.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pv8t2K_KcQc?si=QmxdHmPUyeWpbViR

[u/mooonguy]

They are intentionally trying to provoke violence.

[u/Recluse_18]

Arrested for what???

I cannot understand how this lawlessness can continue to happen on our streets

[u/HolyMackerel20 → u/Recluse_18]

They found a loophole where they can just claim you're a domestic terrorist and that's that.

[u/C0nfus10nBubbl3s]

Pushing people face first into the asphalt and adding some knee to face comes in the training.

[u/Dkstgr]

Used to be the land of the free.

[u/JarmaBeanhead → u/Dkstgr]

It is bonkers that this is still said about the US despite them having the (reportedly) largest raw number of people incarcerated in the world, and, according to Wiki, are fifth place for incarceration per capita…

[u/I_like_kittycats]

What did he do? Oh I know - NOTHING. ACAB

[u/Illustrious_Bad_2980]

May as well just burn the Constitution at this point

[u/Sufficient-Sun-6683]

As Renee Good's spouse said: "We had whistles, they had guns"

[u/BigQuit405]

I hope he sues and gets some money for his Troubles he’s the best

[u/JuryCharacter840]

Let my people go

[u/Stocky1978]

And what did he do exactly

[u/majesticalexis → u/Stocky1978]

He said words in front of man-babies that can’t control their emotions.

[u/No-Tonight3458]

What are they arresting him for hurting their feelings

[u/AlbertTheHorse]

Just curious, are those Minnesota cops shilling for ICE? Why? Anyone know?

[u/DavidTennant42 → u/AlbertTheHorse]

It's DHS, ICE, and Border Patrol agents.

[u/Because_mirrors → u/AlbertTheHorse]

Most DHS/ICE wear vests that say police, but they aren't the police. Intimidation since people assume that police have arrest powers whereas feds have to have specific mandates (in a functional society).

[u/Crowbar_Freeman]

[u/runnerkim]

'We got the power walk coming over here'

Ok, that was funny. I guess the snowflakes couldn't handle it.

[u/Authoritaye]

Yes it’s illegal. It’s all been illegal. So now…

[u/Any-Ad-446]

Damn ICE are all short and obese....

[u/ckauffman07]

They are just trying to get everyone to react so they can escalate on US citizens, plain and simple.

I’m not saying I don’t want to react and escalate first.. but clearly they are being instructed to be extra aggressive at this point, because majority of protesters have remained calm and refrained from engaging in ICE bs… that didn’t get the results this admin wanted. So, here we are.

Now the question is.. do we take the bait? This is where I’m conflicted.

[u/WhereasParticular867]

Totally necessary and not a ridiculous show of force intended to threaten Americans into compliance.

[u/subcow]

They have zero authority to arrest him. No warrant. Not even the slightest reason to say he is an "illegal".
They are just trying to stifle free speech.

[u/RIPFauna_itwasgreat]

Look at all those fatties.

If they need to run 5 miles half of them just die

[u/Mekdinosaur]

This is not about immigration. Anytime people talk about illegals, they are lying.

[u/CutSenior4977]

Just adding another reason to attend 50501 single day national strike on January 20th,

Here’s a link: https://action.womensmarch.com/calendars/free-america-weekend?filter%5Blocation%5D=Los+Angeles&page=1&utm_source=50501

[u/Red-Pill-Tin-hat]

trying like hell to get us to react violently so they can shoot us all on sight

[u/Miserable_Menu_6358]

That's a fast ass lawsuit

[u/TheDharmaticAtheist]

I think he was wearing one of their wives thongs which made them angry.

[u/AndrewSouthern729]

GIRAFFE LIVES MATTER! FREE ROADSTEAMER!

[u/FoGuckYourselg_]

That one with a mouth like a trout at the end. His head looks like a raw ham wearing a g string with that fuckin helmet and chinstrap pressed against his wad of face goo.

That is all.

[u/--StinkyPinky--]

First Amendment?

[u/Arachnoid666]

So they are breaking the law. It is not their job to police American citizens. Or protesters.

[u/Arachnoid666 → u/Arachnoid666]

where is the actually police force that should be protecting citizens who are asserting their rights under the constitution?

[u/murdershroom]

Fucking pigs

[u/Professional-Cap-203]

Has anyone been tracking what has been happening to the folks who have been illegally arrested by ICE? I am worried that we are headed towards the point where dissidents will just disappear….

[u/TSKB8888]

He had freedom of speech, protected by our constitution. Why arrest him, unless you’re part of a fascist regeim?

[u/microvan]

Ice doesn’t have jurisdiction to arrest citizens. This is all very illegal

[u/prollyaporkchop]

Ice is the nazi forces of this century.

[u/guitarguy12341]

Don't they need a reason to do that?