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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,362 posts)
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:09 AM Thursday

CBS News: Trump's Masked Gestapo Grabbing US Citizens...because of brown skin

Trump’s Klan Night Riders,
Trump’s Gestapo,
Trump’s Masked ICE goons

Grabbing US citizens

Family members outraged as U.S. citizen detained by federal agents in downtown LA on way to work

Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T10:24:44.156Z


https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/family-members-outraged-u-s-citizen-detained-federal-agents-downtown-la/

Family members outraged as U.S. citizen detained by federal agents in downtown LA on way to work

June 26, 2025

The family members of a U.S. citizen who was taken into custody by federal agents in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday are demanding answers as she was detained while on her way to work.

Andrea Velez, a Cal Poly Pomona grad working in merchandising at a shoe company, had just been dropped off by her mother and sister for the workday when they saw her being taken into custody, adding they had barely even driven a block before the arrest began.

"They didn't have vests that said ICE or anything," said Velez's sister Estrella Rosas. "Their cars didn't have license plates."

She says that her mother was driving away when she looked in her rearview mirror at what was described by police as immigration enforcement.

"In the rear mirror she saw my sister was kinda, like, attacked from the back and she was already on the floor," Rosas said.
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CBS News: Trump's Masked Gestapo Grabbing US Citizens...because of brown skin (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Thursday OP
Living NJCher Thursday #1
Arrested for her brown skin IrishBubbaLiberal Thursday #3
Meanwhile, G.O.P.skips over gangs, and invites mex cartel and other criminals in BoRaGard Thursday #2
Our rights are being violated daily. This is no longer my representative government. lindysalsagal Thursday #4
Pepper spray. jeffreyi Thursday #5
What popped out for me? peggysue2 Thursday #6

IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,362 posts)
3. Arrested for her brown skin
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:15 AM
Thursday

Brown skin.

Arrested for her brown skin….

CBS News:

……. Witnesses told CBS News Los Angeles that no one asked for her identification, but her family believes that it was nothing she actually did that led to her arrest, but rather the way she looks.

"Just because of the color of our skin, they think we're criminals," Rosas said. "My sister was there, so they were like, 'Oh, she looks Hispanic, so let's take her too.'"

lindysalsagal

(22,712 posts)
4. Our rights are being violated daily. This is no longer my representative government.
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:21 AM
Thursday

Handmaid's Tale wasn't fiction. The GOP has turned us into Gillead.

jeffreyi

(2,396 posts)
5. Pepper spray.
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:07 AM
Thursday

Good for those pesky attacking dogs and for fascist ICE (or whoever they are) goons. If someone tries to manhandle us without showing their identification credentials, we can defend ourselves, no?

peggysue2

(11,966 posts)
6. What popped out for me?
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:21 AM
Thursday
The cars didn't have license plates.

These are not ICE or police or any legal enforcement agency. Instead, Miller and his sycophants are allowing vigilante goons to sweep the streets picking up anyone with less than lily white skin.

This is not immigration enforcement. It's kidnapping in broad daylight, an ethnic purge by a bunch of ideological, racist lunatics.
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