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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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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago

Reminds me of this:

Imagine, every pair in this pile was a life taken.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 12 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.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This was my first thought when watching that video yesterday of them abducting the US citizen who was (allegedly) legally carrying in Minneapolis: what is going to happen to that firearm?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

But a tankie told me they wouldn't bother anyone carrying a gun 😱

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Your first thought was for the gun, not the person. jfc.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Come on now. If you're looking for a way to twist my words for your own personal outrage, sure.

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 week ago

There is no twist, those are your exact words.

[–] Talos@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I think it’s pretty clear he was thinking about the thug ICE agents stealing that poor guys’s stuff, the legal gun being the most expensive item.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I mean, literally whose gonna stop them.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

FAKE NEWS! The US Government does INCREDIBLE Background Checks on Every ICE AGENT! Gives Every ICE AGENT Top Dollar training! And PUNISHES every Bad Agent SWIFTLY! OTHERWISE that would mean we're giving BILLIONS of Taxpayer Dollars to Random Child Raping Men with ZERO oversight and I KNOW Fiscally Responsible Republicans who HATE Drag Queens would NEVER let that Happen! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!