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When They’re Not Applying Banned Chokeholds, ICE Agents Are Apparently Stealing and Selling Citizens’ Phones (www.jezebel.com)
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But when the 16-year-old’s case resurfaced this week in the context of a ProPublica deep dive into the widespread use of banned chokeholds by immigration agents, there was another detail that stood out as particularly galling in its sheer disregard for the idea that agents might face any kinds of consequences: The fact that the ICE agents in question allegedly sold Arnoldo Bazan’s confiscated phone for cash, potentially on the very same day that they took it from him.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago

when they broke into all the residences of a massive building in chicago a bunch of stuff was stolen. they trashed stuff and threw some outside and some just disapeared.