Trump officials accused of false imprisonment and ‘unconstitutional racial profiling’ over incident in LA
The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was detained at gunpoint by federal immigration agents is seeking $1m in damages and accusing the Trump administration of false imprisonment and “unconstitutional racial profiling”.
The teenager, a US citizen with disabilities, was in a vehicle with his mother outside Arleta high school in Los Angeles on 11 August when masked immigration agents surrounded them and pulled them from the vehicle. They said the boy was a suspect in a crime, and handcuffed him for several minutes until they realized they had the wrong person, the Los Angeles Times reported.
His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”.
“What’s exciting about getting guns pointed at you?” she said.
men stormed the beaches of normandy for this shit
Here in Europe we are still thankful for the huge contribution by USA. It’s really sad to see USA now choosing the path they used to fight against, and abandon democratic values they used to fight for.
It’s hard to say the USA anymore, we are very deeply divided as a country. Here on the fediverse you’ll find like-minded left-oriented people (presumably, based on my travels) but man our country is in the toilet. I’m in the over-50 category, been on this Earth awhile and this is some really bad shit - in society we have accepted standards of behaviour and we all know how Trump has dealt with that - dude paved over the Rose Garden to put in a gilded ballroom. Nicolae Ceaușescu, anyone?
Last week, not an exaggeration, an older white man I know I ran into (at the grocery) said something like “if I have to pay a black man reparations, I should be able to bring him home and beat his ass first.” I was in complete shock these words came out of his mouth and I’m a “rough” guy so to speak, I’ll swear like a sailor daily but these racists are emboldened to spew their hate loudly in public now.
Point being: the white racists with money have taken over USA politics, regardless of how people say fancy headlines I live here - it’s all about white racism and supremacy. Every single thing they do is rooted in their hate of anyone and anything not being perceived as white power. Everything else is a smokescreen, their actions show you their beliefs. Trump has (and is) systematically fired any person of color who holds a position of power or influence, it’s in the news every day.
It’s some of my neighbors (I live in a very “brown” area, mixed races etc.) and we’re all walking on eggshells because these MAGA lunatics scream and yell like little children without any logic. “Why did Trump choose 50% instead of 35% tariffs on xxxxx, what’s the math behind it or economic policy?” - “it’s the art of the deal!” (seriously, that’s the response - blurt out a Fox News talking point with zero knowledge, pure ignorance). It’s exhausting to deal with adults who have the reasoning of a 5 year old fueled by their hatred.
I too have been noticing racist and homophobic slurs that were popular in my youth make a sudden return, even in tRump1 I did not hear it as much as now.
As a white guy living in a significantly “brown” large city, these racists are only emboldened to say it to me thinking “he’s one of us” (racist); it’s extremely noticeable when I repeat what they said like I couldn’t hear it (being old has it’s advantages) loudly so other people around us in public can hear what they said. Edit: and a major number of these people I run across are older white women from an ad-hoc statistics viewpoint.
an older white man I know I ran into (at the grocery) said something like “if I have to pay a black man reparations, I should be able to bring him home and beat his ass first.”
Wow that’s absolutely disgusting, if I observed that I would definitely say so to him in no uncertain terms. But I live in a low crime country with few crazies, and I’m a big white guy, so generally I have nothing to fear.
But maybe part of the problem, is that intolerance has been tolerated way to much in USA. Making it look like the crazies have more power than they actually have.white racists with money have taken over USA politics
Indeed they have, but not without a lot of help from for instance moronic Latinos, that thought job security under Trump would be better, and are often religious nut cases, that believe Trump is the 2nd coming of Christ.
It’s exhausting to deal with adults who have the reasoning of a 5 year old fueled by their hatred.
Best wishes, nothing much I can say, it does not look good. 😟
I’m right behind you @ 45 years old, and a Navy Vet. If it makes you feel any better, Wilson was actually worse. We’ve been through this before as a country, I just hope the civil war we are in doesn’t spill out of the country.
No shade meant to the squids for that turn of phrase my bad; Army taught me how to swear and smoke. :)
No worries! We use that turn of phrase ourselves, since we are handed a “swear phrasebook” in basic so that we are able to properly swear at all allies and enemies.
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Can confirm, shipmate. My Swear Bible is sitting in my coffee table right now.
Can you imagine trying to get through a med-cruise without it?
The only problem with this is that those assholes are not paying the kid. It will be taxpayers money.
I’d say a child having a gun pointed at them is a pretty fucking big problem.
Edit: Honestly, I’m at the point where more cops need to start getting shot. Pulling a gun on someone is a threat to their life. I really wany that to start being a signal for people to shoot back. Your life is already on danger, might as well go for broke and make the world a little better place.
It’s the usual Law Enforcement pattern.
Taxpayers fund Law Enforcement --> Law Enforcement Brutalizes Taxpayers --> Taxpayers pay the other Taxpayers that were brutalized --> Law Enforcement receives no incentive to improve --> Taxpayers fund Law Enforcement -->
exciting story to tell
Yeaaah, sure, so exciting! /s
I still have ptsd from that time when cops unlawfully arrested me.
Fuck the police, ACAB.
This is wrong, she should be asking for $10 million.
I feel like all these cases tend to be around $1M, is there some weird legal threshold that maybe makes $1M cases easier to win or have less hoops to jump?
Good luck with that. Sing along kids - 🎶 qualified imuuuuunity! 🎶
USA is not only a police state, it’s a terrorist state now.
The hell you mean “now”? It’s always been a terrorist state
Arguably yes, but there can be no argument about it anymore.
I think there’s more than a few south american and middle eastern countries who would say there’s no argument. Also black ppl and natives would agree
Sure, but now it’s not really arguable for the “white countries”.
It’s a lot harder for Canada to turn and look away than it was 20 years ago.
are bad things only unarguably bad when they happen to white people?
I didn’t realize so many white people were being deported, arrested, or sent to concentration camps.
I think i misunderstood your original comment, my bad 😅
Yes when trump was elected
