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Eliot Rosewater

(33,275 posts)
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:17 PM Jul 12

Just 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. ✊

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Just saw this on my friend's Facebook. He is a professor. (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Jul 12 OP
Should we keep calling them ICE Agents if they never identify themselves? gab13by13 Jul 12 #1
How 'bout "Chicken-shits"? calimary Jul 12 #4
cowards. AllaN01Bear Jul 12 #8
I think they are Puppyjive Jul 12 #5
And J6 felons who were pardoned by T💩p. Sure, he ruined their lives, but now they owe him big time. OMGWTF Jul 12 #9
No. They are masked bounty hunters and kidnappers. Magoo48 Jul 13 #26
Call Them What They Are Fascist Nazi Storm Trooper War Criminals Committing Mass Crimes Against Humanity MayReasonRule Jul 13 #30
I saw the term "ICEstapo" somewhere. soldierant Jul 13 #32
ICE - US and ICEstapo Are Dead On Point MayReasonRule Jul 13 #37
Sturmabteilung LudwigPastorius Jul 13 #41
Or adding to bdamomma Jul 13 #44
Pacific Coast Business Times: CSUCI Professor arrested among Glass House raids teach1st Jul 12 #2
+1 dalton99a Jul 13 #23
This professor will have a great lawsuit against these assholes LetMyPeopleVote Jul 12 #3
Post removed Post removed Jul 12 #11
Can you justify that assertion? Hekate Jul 12 #14
I also don't understand that statement mdbl Jul 13 #29
I think I understand it. Shipwack Jul 13 #31
Which is why we are where we are now. orangecrush Jul 13 #33
1000% correct! nt Shipwack Jul 13 #36
You assume the law will be something other than what The Wizard Jul 13 #35
Here's hoping we can still do something about it! burrowowl Jul 12 #6
Do our party leaders need to do another fund raiser? Autumn Jul 12 #7
AFAIAC, they're Gestapo. lastlib Jul 12 #10
Maybe we all have to start carrying air tsgs or gps Figarosmom Jul 12 #12
They're going to imprison or kill everyone non-maga Eliot Rosewater Jul 12 #15
Do not bdamomma Jul 13 #45
Exactly DENVERPOPS Jul 13 #22
It is an abbreviation DFW Jul 13 #27
Thank you DENVERPOPS Jul 13 #28
Is he a US citizen? Diraven Jul 12 #13
Yes, he is a citizen. coffeenap Jul 12 #17
I posted about this--he is my grown kid's friend. coffeenap Jul 12 #16
His attorney says he has a court case on Monday ClaudetteCC Jul 13 #43
ICE is out of control. This is fucking criminal! Initech Jul 12 #18
This is kinda like what I thought should have been done when armed militias started showing up. BurnDoubt Jul 12 #19
To me, I'd consider every ICE agent a kidnapper/human trafficker sakabatou Jul 12 #20
Agreed Eliot Rosewater Jul 13 #21
Yep, and from there, it's a never-ending escalation if nobody stops them Justice matters. Jul 13 #24
Horrible inhumanity. nt oasis Jul 13 #25
Trump's actions have rendered the Constitution moot. The Wizard Jul 13 #34
The repugnant$ in Congress have rendered the Constitution moot. Justice matters. Jul 13 #38
I have been sitting here, trying to compose my coherent yet accurate response to this. BobTheSubgenius Jul 13 #39
The "ICE-stapo?" The Secret PoLICE? Or just plain: The Thugs? Martin68 Jul 13 #40
Just curious: was he a citizen? snot Jul 13 #42

gab13by13

(29,068 posts)
1. Should we keep calling them ICE Agents if they never identify themselves?
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:32 PM
Jul 12

They could be Eric Prince mercenaries.

calimary

(87,201 posts)
4. How 'bout "Chicken-shits"?
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:39 PM
Jul 12

If they feel the need to hide their faces, isn’t that what they ARE?

Asking for a bunch of friends and acquaintances.

Puppyjive

(760 posts)
5. I think they are
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:46 PM
Jul 12

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)
9. And J6 felons who were pardoned by T💩p. Sure, he ruined their lives, but now they owe him big time.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 08:09 PM
Jul 12

MayReasonRule

(3,588 posts)
30. Call Them What They Are Fascist Nazi Storm Trooper War Criminals Committing Mass Crimes Against Humanity
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:54 AM
Jul 13

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.



teach1st

(5,991 posts)
2. Pacific Coast Business Times: CSUCI Professor arrested among Glass House raids
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:33 PM
Jul 12
https://www.pacbiztimes.com/2025/07/12/csuci-professor-arrested-among-glass-house-raids/

Jonathan Caravello, a professor at CSU Channel Islands, was among one of the more than 200 people arrested from the federal agent’s raid of Glass House Farms’ operations in both Carpinteria and Camarillo on July 10.

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.

Response to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #3)

mdbl

(7,039 posts)
29. I also don't understand that statement
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:51 AM
Jul 13

The Democrats have nothing to do with this at the moment.

Shipwack

(2,787 posts)
31. I think I understand it.
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 10:29 AM
Jul 13

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.

We’ve 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.

The Wizard

(13,292 posts)
35. You assume the law will be something other than what
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 12:31 PM
Jul 13

Diaper Don deems it to be. There is no more law.

Autumn

(48,186 posts)
7. Do our party leaders need to do another fund raiser?
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 07:01 PM
Jul 12

WTF. Masked men with guns, still detained. Do we even know if they are "ICE" that kidnapped him ?

lastlib

(26,382 posts)
10. AFAIAC, they're Gestapo.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 08:11 PM
Jul 12

It's time to treat them as such.

I wonder if anybody has thought of air-tagging their vehicles.....

Figarosmom

(7,271 posts)
12. Maybe we all have to start carrying air tsgs or gps
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 08:38 PM
Jul 12

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)
15. They're going to imprison or kill everyone non-maga
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 09:37 PM
Jul 12

Until we realize it and react accordingly, we are fucked.

bdamomma

(68,902 posts)
45. Do not
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 04:56 PM
Jul 13

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)
22. Exactly
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 12:40 AM
Jul 13

Gestapo...............

Dictionary definition:

: a secret-police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against persons suspected of disloyalty

DFW

(58,603 posts)
27. It is an abbreviation
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:10 AM
Jul 13
Geheime Staatspolizei

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.

Diraven

(1,475 posts)
13. Is he a US citizen?
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 09:17 PM
Jul 12

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)
16. I posted about this--he is my grown kid's friend.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 10:17 PM
Jul 12

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.

Initech

(105,789 posts)
18. ICE is out of control. This is fucking criminal!
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 10:45 PM
Jul 12

Fuck ICE, fuck Trump, and fuck Tom Homan! May they all rot in the hottest circle of hell!

BurnDoubt

(874 posts)
19. This is kinda like what I thought should have been done when armed militias started showing up.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 11:20 PM
Jul 12

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

(45,138 posts)
20. To me, I'd consider every ICE agent a kidnapper/human trafficker
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 11:25 PM
Jul 12

They don't care about rights. They don't care about the person they detain.

Justice matters.

(8,679 posts)
24. Yep, and from there, it's a never-ending escalation if nobody stops them
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 03:06 AM
Jul 13

Inside Ravensbruck: The Most Horrific Nazi Camp for Women




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

The Wizard

(13,292 posts)
34. Trump's actions have rendered the Constitution moot.
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 12:27 PM
Jul 13

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)
38. The repugnant$ in Congress have rendered the Constitution moot.
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 01:35 PM
Jul 13

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)
39. I have been sitting here, trying to compose my coherent yet accurate response to this.
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 01:51 PM
Jul 13

I have no words.

snot

(11,237 posts)
42. Just curious: was he a citizen?
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 04:42 PM
Jul 13

This shouldn't happen to anyone legally present in the U.S., of course; just wondering about the degree of whatever.

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