US man arrested while filming Home Depot ICE raid sues government for $1m
US man arrested while filming Home Depot ICE raid sues government for $1m
www.theguardian.com
US man arrested while filming Home Depot Ice raid sues government for $1m
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🖕 ICE
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It was so good to hear that in the LA protests
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Or maybe start holding some of these large corporations (fruit companies, Home Depot) responsible for encouraging and enabling illegal migrant labor ?
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Home Depot doesn’t employ them. It’s just a convenient parking lot to hang out on looking for day jobs.
My ex’s uncle, conservative asshole had a Russian mail order bride and was staunchly against immigrants. However that didn’t stop him from going down to the Home Depot and hiring a couple to do things like clear brush and move hillsides (although karma came around and he was put on some kind of blacklist where they refused to work for him because of the work he had them do)
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So there’s a secret gringo list ? Neat . Your uncle sounds like the hypocrisy the current administration represents.
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Yes, if they really wanted to stop illegal workers they would hold the employers at fault for the charges. If they were actually worried about theft, and fraud, they would be going after employers and contractors, not the peasantry. This is just a violent display of who is on top, and demonstration of how small you are.
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Step 1: Get binoculars
Step 2: Attach binoculars to Camera
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit?
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This is actually a thing called Digiscoping. Search Digiscoping adapters on Amazon and you can attach your cellphone to binoculars. I actually do this as a hobby, that is, doing wildlife photography on a cellphone, which usually requires a telephoto lens. Not to hijack the post but you can see the results on my IG page at theCronicBirder. I have some reels that show the zoom effect. I use a spotting scope instead of binoculars to get a farther reach.
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Aiming a little low IMO
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They say this every time, whether or not there is footage obviously proving otherwise.
Apart from being so insulting and pathetic that this is the government's generic response to unconstitutional arrests (though he is suing under a tort law due presumptively due to qualified immunity), it's also outright defamatory to falsely claim that someone has committed a crime and assaulted ICE.
The story doesn't provide evidence either way, but if this just is their typical Baghdad Bob propaganda, I hope the victims of ICE start to sue for defamation as well - drain the new bill's obscene funding with a wave of court-ordered compensation to ICE's victims.
Is verbal harassment of police and such even a thing? What if he did shout 'fucking pigs' or whatever while he was videoing? To me that would change nothing - but would it?
They say he was arrested for the "assault," but yep, they intentionally phrased it to conflate "verbal harassment" with actual (if true) criminal conduct. It's a meaningless phrase.
If anything, they put it there because to the right wing base, it justifies police violence or could support disorderly conduct, or one of the other catch-all pretextual "crimes" used when police want to arrest someone for no real reason.
These people are arguing in the court of public opinion. The guy could be 100% in the clear legally and it wouldn't matter if public opinion is against him. The governlent has been doing tons of unconstitutional/illegal things, but only reversed the ones with widespread negative public sentiment
Verbal harassment isn't a thing. You can legally tell a cop to fuck off while flipping them off. The only kind of speech that isn't allowed is "fighting words" or calls to violence.
That has stopped literally no one from trying to make arrests before.
Oh man, seeing how all of this bill is basically "trickling up" wealth again , it'd be kinda hilarious to use strategic ICE suing to drain it back down to the people again.
Lawyers would see it as blood in the water after one or two successful cases, especially after that huge budget increase. Gold rush on ICE lol!
Ice agent threateningly approaches person holding camera yelling at them to stop recording. While waving his hands around in anger his arm touches the camera person.
Charge: Felony assault on a police officer.