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In reply to the discussion: 20 ICE Agents Armed With Rifles Just to Take Down One 60-Year-Old Woman selling Tamales [View all]KentuckyWoman
(7,164 posts)65. Personally,
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.
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20 ICE Agents Armed With Rifles Just to Take Down One 60-Year-Old Woman selling Tamales [View all]
IrishBubbaLiberal
Jun 20
OP
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
ISIS: "ICE is" terrorism. Just call 'em ISIS. That'll piss off the ICE religionists
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
Jun 20
#7
Maybe ICE had bad information: maybe they thought she was selling tacos, ...
JustABozoOnThisBus
Jun 20
#8
20 agents in full battle gear, several vehicles, probably 2-3 hours of their time, plus an ambulance.
patphil
Jun 20
#17
The parameds seemed to be more urgent in their movements once they got her to the back of the unit.
moniss
Jun 20
#22
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
Shouldn't Kristi Noem be leading the charge with her big gun? Add Boebert and MTG.
Norrrm
Jun 20
#34
Why don't you mind the face covering? Would you like to be arrested in that manner?
travelingthrulife
Jun 21
#62
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
It's no wonder they are a billion dollars over budget and asking for 2 billion more.
travelingthrulife
Jun 21
#63