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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust saw this on my friend's Facebook. He is a professor.
U.S. Professor kidnapped and disappeared by ICE for nearly a day he still remains detained.
Yesterday a California Faculty Association union leader, Professor Jonathan Caravello, was dragged away by four masked ICE agents while lawfully observing a raid. He was put in an unmarked vehicle with no explanation of where he would be taken and no access to his medication.
After a heart wrenching 20-hour search, he has finally been located, but remains in detention.
This is not normal.
Peaceful protesters, even American citizens, are being tear gassed and abducted by masked men with guns.
Yet in the face of this hate, Jonathan demonstrated the meaning of union solidarity. He stood up for his undocumented students and neighbors. We will never stop fighting for one another. And we won't be silent until our union brother is released. ✊

gab13by13
(29,068 posts)They could be Eric Prince mercenaries.
calimary
(87,201 posts)If they feel the need to hide their faces, isnt that what they ARE?
Asking for a bunch of friends and acquaintances.
AllaN01Bear
(26,709 posts)Puppyjive
(760 posts)My sister's ex husband worked for some of those defense contractors and he is nothing short of crazy. Total white supremacy and ex military.
OMGWTF
(4,860 posts)Magoo48
(6,548 posts)MayReasonRule
(3,588 posts)This has nothing do do with freedom and everything to do with establishing the forever rule of a fascist oligarchy.
Call out these bastards for what they are, what they've done and for what they are continuing to do.
Call them fascists.
Call them Nazis.
Call them Storm Troopers.
Call them war criminals.
Call them murderers.
Call them child abusers.
Call them traitors to humanity.
These individuals deserve no honorific.
These individuals deserve to be vilified, punished and expelled from society forever more.
soldierant
(8,775 posts)MayReasonRule
(3,588 posts)
LudwigPastorius
(13,054 posts)Translation: Assault Department
bdamomma
(68,902 posts)the Jan 6th Insurrectionists, who don't want to be identified.
teach1st
(5,991 posts)In a statement, the California Faculty Association said that Caravello, according to witnesses, was arrested on July 10 after attempting to help a person in a wheelchair who had a tear gas canister lodged underneath their wheelchair.
CFA President Margarita Berta-Ávila said in the July 10 statement that while attempting to help the bystander, who could not see or breathe, Caravello was abruptly taken down by immigration agents, dragged into an unmarked vehicle and taken to an unknown location.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, Caravello is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,992 posts)Response to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #3)
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Hekate
(98,696 posts)mdbl
(7,039 posts)The Democrats have nothing to do with this at the moment.
Shipwack
(2,787 posts)When this is over*, there needs to be accountability. Those who gave illegal directives and those who carried them out must be brought to justice. We need to show the free world and future generations that authoritarianism is not allowed.
Weve been here several times before. Republicans do something evil, and instead of being held accountable, the Democratic leadership and pundits declare some variation of we need to look forward, not backward. Since there have never been any consequences, the Republicans will go even further the next time they decide to seize the levers of power.
Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
*I refuse to entertain any other possibility.
orangecrush
(25,891 posts)Shipwack
(2,787 posts)The Wizard
(13,292 posts)Diaper Don deems it to be. There is no more law.
burrowowl
(18,320 posts)Autumn
(48,186 posts)WTF. Masked men with guns, still detained. Do we even know if they are "ICE" that kidnapped him ?
lastlib
(26,382 posts)It's time to treat them as such.
I wonder if anybody has thought of air-tagging their vehicles.....
Figarosmom
(7,268 posts)So we can be tracked if we disappear. They take our phones but something small we can hide might be wise.
Eliot Rosewater
(33,275 posts)Until we realize it and react accordingly, we are fucked.
bdamomma
(68,902 posts)normalize their illegal actions it is about FEAR and INTIMIDATION!!!! Stephen Miller's name is all over this. He's a SF!!!
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)Gestapo...............
Dictionary definition:
: a secret-police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against persons suspected of disloyalty
DFW
(58,603 posts)Translation: Secret State Police
Like so many other repressive aspects of Stalin that Hitler and Himmler admired, the NKVD (later KGB) was one of them.
for filling us all in........
Diraven
(1,475 posts)Because if he's not they'll revoke his visa out of spite so they don't have to admit they were wrong.
coffeenap
(3,269 posts)coffeenap
(3,269 posts)Has was disappeared until a few hours ago when friends finally located him in the LA metro detention center. Still no contact allowed, per a few hours ago.
ClaudetteCC
(82 posts)Initech
(105,789 posts)Fuck ICE, fuck Trump, and fuck Tom Homan! May they all rot in the hottest circle of hell!
BurnDoubt
(874 posts)It was clearly a mistake not to have done before they became normal. Now they shit on My freedom and satisfy their need to express their cruelty with tacet approval under guise of service to our Nation and their "patriotic" embrace of a Traitorous Tyrant.
sakabatou
(45,137 posts)They don't care about rights. They don't care about the person they detain.
Eliot Rosewater
(33,275 posts)Justice matters.
(8,679 posts)Inside Ravensbruck: The Most Horrific Nazi Camp for Women

Many thugs like them there didn't care either. They loved their cruelty.

oasis
(52,586 posts)The Wizard
(13,292 posts)And we're under his thumb until he merges with the Universe at which time Junior will assume power. Like North Korea, but without the good will and sense of humor.
Dante's 8th Circle beckons.
Justice matters.
(8,679 posts)They are accessories after the fact now.
In spite of the polls numbers diving further and further down every new release.
At what point in the polls did they tell Nixon he was cooked and it was time to resign or they would impeach and remove him?
Will they do the same to their scamming pedfelon at the same point or worst?
BobTheSubgenius
(12,056 posts)I have no words.
Martin68
(26,236 posts)snot
(11,237 posts)This shouldn't happen to anyone legally present in the U.S., of course; just wondering about the degree of whatever.