Federal immigration agents seeking to detain a Honduran landscaper chased him into a Southern California surgical center and quickly found themselves in a tense standoff as clinic staff demanded to see identification and a warrant.
In a video clip of the Tuesday altercation that has spread on social media, Ontario Advanced Surgery Center staff in blue scrubs are heard telling an armed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent wearing a mask and bulletproof vest to let go of the man, who is crying and gasping for breath.
“Get your hands off of him. You don’t even have a warrant,” says one staff member, shielding the man from an immigration agent. “Let him go. You need to get out.”
The news needs to stop giving these people in masks the benefit of the doubt.
They are wearing masks and bulletproof vests. Anyone with 500 dollars can get those things. Stop calling them “Agents” when they don’t show identification. Start calling them “Armed unidentified men” because thats all those surgical staff members saw. When you have your agency on your uniform and you show a badge and ID, then you’re an agent, otherwise you’re just a random man with a gun and people will treat you accordingly.
Good. Fight back!
Everywhere. Even if they have warrants. Seriously. These are Nazis and should be treated as such. Do not let them kidnap people. Shame them until there are enough numbers on your side to fight back.
If you don’t know the victims name. Learn it and keep repeating it. Yell “they are trying to kidnap <name>!”. It humanizes them further against a masked person that won’t identify themselves. It can help attract people around to help.
And it has to be you. Everyone else is in “freeze” mode as they don’t know what’s going on. You do. You know. You gotta be the one to start resistance. But you won’t be alone long.
Fuck these Nazis.
Medical staff are used to high stress situations, they don’t put up with shit
According to the article the man was still taken and no-one knows where he is now. So their actions didn’t matter in the end.
So their actions didn’t matter in the end.
Point of order: Just because the end result was the same, doesn’t mean it didn’t matter.
It does matter. It matters to those of us that care. It matters to know what side people are on.
No. This post was an action that doesn’t matter. What they did mattered.
I’d disagree. A post matters if you care about a toic or action, because more people see what is happening.
Edit: Given my down votes, I’m guessing the above person meant “comment” and not “post”. And others are attributing it as such.
