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Showing Original Post only (View all)'Chilling': FBI shocks with visits to homes of innocent protesters under Trump's orders [View all]
https://www.rawstory.com/fbi-protest/'Chilling': FBI shocks with visits to homes of innocent protesters under Trump's orders
David Edwards
October 23, 2025 3:48PM ET
In one case, special needs teacher Miles Serafini, 26, told independent journalist Ken Klippenstein that agents visited his home after he participated in a June protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Arizona. The two agents, who only identified themselves as "James" and "Keith", were recorded on Serafini's security camera.
Serafini said the agents that visited his home "were trying to figure out the shadowy entity behind the protest."
"What a waste of their time to go after st that doesn't exist," he added. "And they kept drilling me on the fact that I showed up alone, [that I didn't] remember where I saw the flyer, and didn't know anybody there. They told me that's unusual and pretty suspicious as if I was holding back information about whoever organized the protest. They kept insinuating that I was lying to them."
Before leaving, the agents told Serafini that it might not be the last time they saw him. The warning left him concerned enough that he decided not to attend the recent No Kings protests.
"That is exactly the chilling effect on speech that the FBI investigating political matters risks creating," Klippenstein noted.
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cbabe
Thursday
OP
Simple rule: You are under no obligation to give these people so much as the time of day.
flashman13
Thursday
#21
If I were the target of an FBI "interview" and they showed up at my door, my first question would be:
MarineCombatEngineer
Thursday
#7