It's literally the old "I-ran-into-her-fist" story

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David J. Bier @David_J_Bier
After her family dropped her off at work, ICE agents jumped on this little woman on the right and then, after they discovered she's a US citizen, they claimed she "assaulted" them. The agents have yet to show what injuries they sustained from what must have been a brutal attack.



David J. Bier @David_J_Bier 3h
It's literally the old "I-ran-into-her-fist" story. Sounds totally credible.

A U.S. citizen who was arrested by immigration agents on her way to work earlier this week was released on bond Thursday, June 26, at a federal courthouse in Los Angeles.

Andrea Velez’s sister and mom had dropped the marketing designer off for work Tuesday in downtown L.A. moments before masked agents detained her as part of an immigration raid in the area. In the moments after they dropped her off, Velez’s family watched agents grab her arm, push her to the ground and carry her away, leaving her bruised.

Her family and lawyers said they couldn’t get answers regarding where she was being held until the following day.

Agents didn’t ask Velez for her ID until after she they had placed her in a vehicle, she said Thursday after her release. When she showed them her California driver’s license, Velez said authorities questioned its validity, and she provided them with more information like her medical insurance. She and her attorneys believe her arrest was a result of racial profiling.

“Our law enforcement need to conduct their official operations in a process that is fair,” said Gregory Russell, an attorney representing Velez in her criminal case. “Not racial profiling, not wearing head coverings, not walking around without ICE clearly marked on their uniforms.”

https://www.presstelegram.com/2025/06/26/u-s-citizen-released-on-bond-after-ice-agents-detained-her-on-her-way-to-work-in-downtown-los-angeles/

...thugs.

This is a classic case for a stand-your-ground defense. There is no reasonable distinction to be made by anyone accosted by these agents who are masked and out of uniform, with someone literally trying to kidnap them.

It's abomidable that these agents wait until these targets of theirs are in the most vulnerable of positions, as if women like this young lady pose some sort of threat to these armed gangs of roving thugs.

It's really simple assault, and they should not be allowed protections from identifying themselves which are designed to defend against real and present threats to their safety.

The well-being of the citizenry should be their primary concern, and this phony justification of some sort of emergency that requires powers to defend against actual invasions and attacks on the nation is a sick and dangerous ruse which has impacted dozens of U.S. citizens to date, including a Canadian national who died in custody after being unjustly held by agents for days.

Johnny Noviello became a lawful permanent US resident in October 24, 1991, after entering the US in January 1988 with a legal visa, ICE said. He had served around 125 days of a 12 month sentence in 2023 with credits for good behavior and time served, for racketeering, trafficking Oxycodone and Hydrocodone. Served his time, and no one except this virtue-cosplaying administration believed he was a danger to anyone anymore.



The dirty secret is that Trump's ICE has a rising body count, and it's been normalized as if it's acceptable collateral damage by Americans holding their breath, afraid perhaps to make any sound that might direct this administration's fascist thuggery their way.

As of now, eleven people have died in ICE detention centers this year alone, according to federal data. This number has increased significantly compared to previous years, with 12 deaths reported in fiscal year 2024.

Any other police force with this track record of abuses and deaths would have sparked calls for their disbandment. But with so many people already fallen victim to these SS-like forces with so little defense from the public, there's almost a resignation to it because, the word 'immigrants' has been distorted into something of an enemy to us, instead of the families and workers that most of us live and work with everyday.

So many despicable lies... ones that this president and his accomplice were elected on. And now it's being revealed how much this regime really does consider Americans "enemies of the state" as Trump has said loudly and repeatedly about his political opponents and those who dissent against him.