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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,418 posts)
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 02:38 PM Jun 20

20 ICE Agents Armed With Rifles Just to Take Down One 60-Year-Old Woman selling Tamales

June 19
LOWES PACOIMA

20 ICE Agents Armed With Rifles Just to Take Down One 60-Year-Old Woman selling Tamales

RESULT OF ICE THUGS ABUSE…

AMBULANCE NEEDED
AMBULANCE NEEDED BECAUSE OF ICE GESTAPO THUGS

NO Badge
NO Names
NO body cameras
WITHOUT THAT, THEY'RE KIDNAPPERS

A woman who witnessed this said they manhandled her, lifted her shirt showing her breast when they tried to carry her limp body.


https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Raids/comments/1lgak8w/20_ice_agents_armed_with_rifles_just_to_take_down/

in case the video does not show: https://www.tiktok.com/@letsparza/video/7517766107382451486?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

But why are they allowed to cover their faces while being servants to the public? If I can’t ask you about your identity while you’re being paid with our tax dollars to police the public, it smells like fascism.

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20 ICE Agents Armed With Rifles Just to Take Down One 60-Year-Old Woman selling Tamales (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 20 OP
ICE agents are cowards. Irish_Dem Jun 20 #1
One can only hope. Because imo B.See Jun 20 #51
They may be "pardoned" J6 insurrectionists. Justice matters. Jun 21 #64
Yes I think they are pardoned criminals. Irish_Dem Jun 21 #72
Sorry it won't go sideways. They are LEO. If you blow a kiss to a LEO they can haul you in for assault by breathing LiberalArkie Jun 21 #73
As my mother used to say, these guys are cruising for a bruising. Irish_Dem Jun 21 #74
I'm going to put the term "ICE Agent" in quotes from now on. Buns_of_Fire Jun 20 #2
ICEtapo. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 20 #3
Better still! Buns_of_Fire Jun 20 #5
I've been running with ICEholes Brother Buzz Jun 20 #12
i refer to it as barbtries Jun 21 #58
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jun 20 #4
I live in Sacramento crud Jun 20 #9
I would think taco stands would be targeted instead of tamales... BattleRow Jun 20 #24
I see what you did there.... Bayard Jun 20 #32
LA street taco scene crud Jun 20 #39
I lived in Sacramento for nine years PatSeg Jun 20 #37
It's still like that here obamanut2012 Jun 21 #67
Yes, it is PatSeg Jun 21 #69
The woman outside the Broadway Target obamanut2012 Jun 21 #66
What awful excuses for human beings UpInArms Jun 20 #6
ISIS: "ICE is" terrorism. Just call 'em ISIS. That'll piss off the ICE religionists RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jun 20 #7
ICE IS ...... BattleRow Jun 20 #26
Maybe ICE had bad information: maybe they thought she was selling tacos, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 20 #8
The last two Democratic Presidents BidenRocks Jun 20 #10
Will the heroes receive their medals at the White Asylum? Ping Tung Jun 20 #11
Are we allowed to mention asylum in connection with immigrants? soldierant Jun 20 #41
Good thing they have KT2000 Jun 20 #13
the force display is not to take the woman away... Layzeebeaver Jun 20 #14
I think you meant "intimidate" not "assure" DBoon Jun 20 #35
I think "assure" is correct, althoug soldierant Jun 20 #42
"Assure that" Layzeebeaver Jun 21 #55
Yes it is a stunt designed to terrorize the populace. Irish_Dem Jun 20 #44
Must have been a high value target to dedicate that much manpower at what cost (???) ffr Jun 20 #15
This reminds me if the movie "Shooter" DFW Jun 20 #16
20 agents in full battle gear, several vehicles, probably 2-3 hours of their time, plus an ambulance. patphil Jun 20 #17
waste, fraud and abuse Skittles Jun 20 #52
We have two mutually exclusive views of life and of animal forms. ananda Jun 20 #18
Precisely what God do they serve? Or BattleRow Jun 20 #31
Smells of fascism? swong19104 Jun 20 #19
"...it is fascism." BadgerMom Jun 20 #20
This is the fire he stoked. SleeplessinSoCal Jun 20 #21
The parameds seemed to be more urgent in their movements once they got her to the back of the unit. moniss Jun 20 #22
Rick Wilson is wondering too (link below) One poster suggests -- Blackwater Hekate Jun 20 #23
Prince's goons. orangecrush Jun 20 #48
20 armed ICE agents arresting a 60 year old woman selling tamales. Dave Id Jun 20 #25
ARE WE GREAT YET???? LymphocyteLover Jun 20 #27
Isn't it obvious? SidneyR Jun 20 #28
They certainly wouldn't TacosUberAlles Jun 21 #57
True enough n/t SidneyR Jun 22 #75
I'm praying (in a non religious way) for someone to dox these cowardly bastards and get their families to disown them... wcmagumba Jun 20 #29
Yup. Kidnappers, imo. SheltieLover Jun 20 #30
I think Cherokee100 Jun 20 #33
Shouldn't Kristi Noem be leading the charge with her big gun? Add Boebert and MTG. Norrrm Jun 20 #34
Surely DOGE will have a lot to say about that. tanyev Jun 20 #36
Remember MissouriDem47 Jun 20 #38
DEFUND ICE n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 20 #40
Unpopular take KentuckyWoman Jun 20 #43
Why don't you mind the face covering? Would you like to be arrested in that manner? travelingthrulife Jun 21 #62
Personally, KentuckyWoman Jun 21 #65
was this woman even illegal? 4catsmom Jun 20 #45
Absolutely not Cirsium Jun 20 #46
Can states require identification Nululu Jun 20 #47
Pardoned nwduke Jun 20 #49
Pardoned nwduke Jun 20 #50
Mayhem in the streets. yellow dahlia Jun 20 #53
And ICE arrested a guy filming it! SunSeeker Jun 21 #54
They only used 20? William769 Jun 21 #56
I'll. be waiting for the joint press conference held by her US rep. State rep. and local authorities Magoo48 Jun 21 #59
Maybe they were scared of tamales? You know how deadly the spicy ones can be. cstanleytech Jun 21 #60
Whew! Another troublemaker off the streets! Wingus Dingus Jun 21 #61
It's no wonder they are a billion dollars over budget and asking for 2 billion more. travelingthrulife Jun 21 #63
Tamales??? BobTheSubgenius Jun 21 #68
ICE agents gfarber Jun 21 #70
There was this horrid take down of a skinny 20 year old citizen working at Walmart. C Moon Jun 21 #71
Just think what they would have done if it had been tacos? surfered Jun 22 #76
Just think what they would have done if it had been tacos? surfered Jun 22 #77
This message was self-deleted by its author surfered Jun 22 #78
Is it at all possible to find out if this woman is alive. Zackzzzz Jun 23 #79

Irish_Dem

(71,728 posts)
1. ICE agents are cowards.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 02:42 PM
Jun 20

One day it is going to go sideways for them and they can only blame themselves.

B.See

(5,723 posts)
51. One can only hope. Because imo
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 11:25 PM
Jun 20

the WRONG people are being locked up. Starting at the top.

Justice matters.

(8,538 posts)
64. They may be "pardoned" J6 insurrectionists.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:23 AM
Jun 21

they love to bully
they love violence
they can't find any other job for the rest of their life.

Irish_Dem

(71,728 posts)
72. Yes I think they are pardoned criminals.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 02:24 PM
Jun 21

Or some sort of criminals.

Who else would the Trump Crime Syndicate hire?

LiberalArkie

(18,508 posts)
73. Sorry it won't go sideways. They are LEO. If you blow a kiss to a LEO they can haul you in for assault by breathing
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 02:27 PM
Jun 21

on them. Remember how they were during the AIDS thing during Reagan.

Buns_of_Fire

(18,583 posts)
2. I'm going to put the term "ICE Agent" in quotes from now on.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 02:44 PM
Jun 20

Or easier still, I'll just replace it with "Gestapo".

Response to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

crud

(1,014 posts)
9. I live in Sacramento
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 03:35 PM
Jun 20

and there are tomale sellers and taco stands all over the city. Most of them are busy all the time. I haven't heard about fascist activity around here, but if they show up, it isn't gonna go to well. I'm thinking the street vendors in LA are probably staying off the street. What a shame and loss to our culture. I'm a white guy and I love my multi-cultural city.

PatSeg

(50,494 posts)
37. I lived in Sacramento for nine years
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 05:30 PM
Jun 20

It was the most diverse place I've ever lived and probably the most comfortable community that I can recall. Quite a few people that I worked with were immigrants, many of them students. I find myself wondering if they're okay right now.

PatSeg

(50,494 posts)
69. Yes, it is
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 01:16 PM
Jun 21

My main problem was the air quality and I ended up sick in the hospital many times due to respiratory failure. All the new construction at the time only made it worse. It's a shame, as it was a lovely place to live and I loved the weather.

UpInArms

(53,023 posts)
6. What awful excuses for human beings
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 03:09 PM
Jun 20

Do they cover their faces so that their wives, mothers, fathers, children won’t see them for who they are?

Monsters

BidenRocks

(1,746 posts)
10. The last two Democratic Presidents
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 03:36 PM
Jun 20

Deported many people without the dangerous terrorism.
Not many complained. Maybe because they were real crooks and they got their Habeus Corpus.

KT2000

(21,564 posts)
13. Good thing they have
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 03:44 PM
Jun 20

high powered rifles at the ready. A 60 year old woman selling tamales is known to be one of the most dangerous people in America. Don't they have any shame?

Layzeebeaver

(1,978 posts)
14. the force display is not to take the woman away...
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 03:47 PM
Jun 20

It's to assure any people in the surrounding area are too shocked and afraid to get involved in pushing back against tyranny.

soldierant

(8,679 posts)
42. I think "assure" is correct, althoug
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 05:45 PM
Jun 20

adding "that" right after it would have clarified is. (My weird mind added the "that" for me.)

ffr

(23,205 posts)
15. Must have been a high value target to dedicate that much manpower at what cost (???)
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 03:57 PM
Jun 20

Probably a ring leader or drug smuggler with ties to organized crime.

How many hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are we spending on this nonsense? Ridiculous!

DFW

(58,381 posts)
16. This reminds me if the movie "Shooter"
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 03:58 PM
Jun 20

This seems like the bad guys aren’t government agents at all, but thugs working for private contractors hired by ICE. “Arm’s Length” they call it, so that when the body count starts, not one actual government employee will have been guilty of anything, or even traceable to the perps. The only guilty parties will be the ones who defend themselves against these hired gangsters unless they get confronted by groups in numbers far superior to their own, and armed with weapons they are equally adept at both using and not using unless absolutely necessary for self defense.

Take down a few groups of these thugs, unmask them, charge them with assault and kidnapping, with film evidence to back it up. They will have no written orders on them, no warrants, no solid proof that they are anything other than criminals working for a criminal organization. They carry no government ID, not to protect their identities, but, to my way of thinking, because they have no goverbment ID. They collect their pay quietly (cash?), and vanish back into obscurity. Eventually, someone will crack, testify, and then let the round of prosecutions start: Watergate II.

I’m just dreaming, I know, but I was there to see Nixon’s thugs jailed. It’s not completely without precedent. We had to be paient, but it DID happen.

patphil

(8,038 posts)
17. 20 agents in full battle gear, several vehicles, probably 2-3 hours of their time, plus an ambulance.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 04:06 PM
Jun 20

All to grab one harmless old woman off the street.
I'll bet that operation cost at least $10,000.
Multiply this bullshit by maybe 50-100 operations a day, and the amount of money spent to support this operation goes into the mega millions really quick.
And that's just the street level stuff. All the support for this anti-american, fascist operation will easily bring the whole thing up to way over $1 billion a month.

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/report-costs-mass-deportation-immigration/

One thing to remember, the "big beautiful bill" allows for thousands more ICE agents, and huge expansion of all their equipment and facilities, including bigger detention centers.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/trump-contractors-ice-detentions-deportations/83250623007/

One wonders what they plan to do with this gestapo-like secret police force after they're done deporting people.

ananda

(32,431 posts)
18. We have two mutually exclusive views of life and of animal forms.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 04:18 PM
Jun 20

The ICE people, and all Republicans really, do not see all people
as human beings, but rather the non-whites they see as dangerous
animals that need to be eliminated from the country... one.

And their view of life is one of social darwinism and rugged
individualism on the part of white people led only by white men,
not one of shared cooperation, inclusiveness, and thought...
two.

Thus, if we expect them to think and believe as we do, we will
always make the mistake of judging them by OUR lights, not
theirs.

They think they are doing God's work, trying to set up the
world for those who are truly worthy... white people led only
by white men.

There is no way to fight this on their terms. We have to think
together and organize en masse to show them that we are the
vast majority of people in this country and that we will only
live and believe on our terms, no theirs.

BattleRow

(1,731 posts)
31. Precisely what God do they serve? Or
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 04:51 PM
Jun 20

profess to?
Jeff Sharlett has done exceptional work on Christian Dominionists,starting with his book,,"The Family",later turned into a mini series.
This group is instrumental in National Prayer Day celebrations.
Is it kismet that dominion and dominate are so similar?

swong19104

(449 posts)
19. Smells of fascism?
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 04:25 PM
Jun 20

No, it’s outright fascism. And a weak-ass fraidy cat bunch of fascists, too. These weak-ass fascists are no different than Thomas Blanton, Herman Cash, et al who bombed the 16th St Baptist Church killing four little girls. Or those who killed Emmett Till. They’re always hiding behind their hoods and robes. Today, it’s a balaclava worn over the nose.

moniss

(7,630 posts)
22. The parameds seemed to be more urgent in their movements once they got her to the back of the unit.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 04:33 PM
Jun 20

I hope not but it may have been that they saw her condition worsen or they realized the seriousness. Notice how they beat on the guy in the van to get him out.

Dave Id

(120 posts)
25. 20 armed ICE agents arresting a 60 year old woman selling tamales.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 04:45 PM
Jun 20

Hope this dangerous women didn't harm any of the agents. /s

SidneyR

(157 posts)
28. Isn't it obvious?
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 04:47 PM
Jun 20

The USA as we knew it is gone. It is now a fascist country. There is no going back. I wonder if the Founders would even recognize the country they created.

 

TacosUberAlles

(88 posts)
57. They certainly wouldn't
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 07:52 AM
Jun 21

and I'm perfectly fine with that given how much bad they supported like slavery & women not being able to vote.

wcmagumba

(4,205 posts)
29. I'm praying (in a non religious way) for someone to dox these cowardly bastards and get their families to disown them...
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 04:48 PM
Jun 20

MissouriDem47

(195 posts)
38. Remember
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 05:34 PM
Jun 20

A guy named Jesse and his brother Frank did their most productive work with their faces covered.

KentuckyWoman

(7,086 posts)
43. Unpopular take
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 06:17 PM
Jun 20

My unpopular take is if the local ICE agents are going to be tasked with TV reality show crap like this, and agree to do it, at minimum take enough agents to handle the crowd. Be sure agents are clearly tagged as law enforcement. They need body cameras ...

I don't mind the face covering. Better they find a more honorable way to make a living, but the internet is crazy. No reason their family, friends and neighbors should be at risk.

Flame away, but what I saw in that video was asinine, but not 100% bad.

travelingthrulife

(2,801 posts)
62. Why don't you mind the face covering? Would you like to be arrested in that manner?
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 09:49 AM
Jun 21

They would never use body cameras.

KentuckyWoman

(7,086 posts)
65. Personally,
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:52 AM
Jun 21

Personally, if I'm out there on the sidewalk not bothering a soul and 6 big guys in kevlar rush me, all I'm thinking about is live through it and please bring my purse with me. Next comes let me call my family and I need a lawyer - and probably I need my medicine.

You might be right in the age of social media. Maybe putting their faces on social media so the kids and wife and parents get threatened will be effective to stopping this, but I have not seen that to be true thus far in life.

Edited for brevity and sticking to the point....

4catsmom

(658 posts)
45. was this woman even illegal?
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 06:45 PM
Jun 20

not that it matters anymore. You just have to look like their stereotype of an 'illegal'

yellow dahlia

(2,585 posts)
53. Mayhem in the streets.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 11:47 PM
Jun 20

No organizational action.

Anyone can pretend to be an arrestor nowadays.

Dystopian Wild Wild West.

Magoo48

(6,510 posts)
59. I'll. be waiting for the joint press conference held by her US rep. State rep. and local authorities
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 09:05 AM
Jun 21

Condemning this attack by armed, masked criminals. This is one of those instances that should be forced into the light, no matter how much effort it takes.

travelingthrulife

(2,801 posts)
63. It's no wonder they are a billion dollars over budget and asking for 2 billion more.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 09:51 AM
Jun 21

Lots of hispanic venders out there.

BobTheSubgenius

(12,040 posts)
68. Tamales???
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 01:14 PM
Jun 21

She was selling TAMALES??? What did she think was going to happen? It might as well have been borscht.

Jesus wept. The times we are living in.

gfarber

(38 posts)
70. ICE agents
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 01:36 PM
Jun 21


A thug in a shirt full of stains
Sought fashion for lawless campaigns.
“Uniform? Nah —
They’ll just guess you’re the law
Too late, once they’re tossed in your vans.”

No badge, just a mask and a sneer,
He whispers, “The law? I’m unclear.”
No warrant to show,
No name you might know,
Just silence, and then you disappear.

They dress like a dad on the lam,
Then snatch you as cool as a clam.
No patch, no ID—
Just impunity,
And a van with no windows. Wham.

C Moon

(12,969 posts)
71. There was this horrid take down of a skinny 20 year old citizen working at Walmart.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 02:05 PM
Jun 21

Hi mother couldn't locate him. The latest I heard was that he's at a detention center. But why?

This Tiktok video is the best one (profanity warning):
https://www.tiktok.com/@latimes/video/7517688786558520607

But here's a YouTube from CBS news:

?si=w4O021JKZ616JMRN

Response to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Zackzzzz

(88 posts)
79. Is it at all possible to find out if this woman is alive.
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 12:17 PM
Jun 23

I watched the video and she was unconscious for too long.
It looked like her head was on the sidewalk.
All these big.....CAMO HE-MEN...with dangerous toys
just blocking people from filming their dirty work.
In light of new info,
do they get their bounty pay if she goes to the hospital, instead?
She has just disappeared.

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