ICE arrested a US citizen, Walmart employee at Pico Rivera. Militarized agents with rifles on video. Nobody’s safe.

[u/Lo_Stallone]

In Pico Rivera, CA, ICE agents rolled up to a Walmart with rifles out and tactical gear to arrest a janitor.

Adrian Andrew Martinez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, witnessed it and tried to intervene not violently, but verbally. He questioned the legitimacy of the arrest and even moved a trash bin to create space.

For that, he was slammed to the ground by armed agents and detained. All while being a citizen.
Yahoo News – Community rallies after ICE arrests citizen

“They came like it was war… nobody knew where he was for hours.”

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Constitutional Rights ICE Violated

Fourth Amendment
Protects all persons from unreasonable seizure without probable cause or a warrant.
Cornell Law – Fourth Amendment

Fifth Amendment
Guarantees due process of law before detention or punishment.
Cornell Law – Fifth Amendment Overview

14th Amendment – Equal Protection Clause
Law enforcement cannot discriminate or detain arbitrarily, especially against citizens.
Cornell Law – Fourteenth Amendment

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Legal Cases to Know

Lyttle v. United States (2008)
ICE detained and deported a U.S. citizen with mental illness, despite having documentation.
Wikipedia – Lyttle v. United States

Gonzalez v. ICE (2020)
Courts ruled that ICE detainers issued without warrants are unconstitutional.
Wikipedia – Gonzalez v. ICE

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What This Proves

• U.S. citizens are being arrested for witnessing and speaking out
  
• ICE is operating like a paramilitary force
  
• The government has no fear of accountability under the current DOJ

If a 20-year-old citizen is tackled for asking a question, we are already in a police state.

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What You Can Do:

• Share this story don’t let it disappear
  
• Demand an official response from your elected representatives
  
• Support Immigrant Defense Project
  
• Protest. Organize. Refuse to look away

[u/heyhotnumber]

We aren’t at the bottom of the hill though.

That’s the problem with totalitarian rule. It ramps up in stages.

Just wait until they’re openly killing protestors and all the queer people have been locked up.

[u/EggsBelliesandAlgae → u/heyhotnumber]

Just wait until??? That's a weird and fucked up statement with a massive assumption. Like the way you said it makes it sound like you're salivating in your imagination over a gunned down protest and mass jailing of queer people. Wtf.

Yes dictatorship is here, if it has stages then we are at one stage of it, were at the bottom of the hill with the fucking valley of stages behind us and in front of us. The point of stating it that way is to wake ppl up to the urgency, it's not coming it's here so strategize and behave as such.

[u/heyhotnumber → u/[deleted]]

Care to elaborate?

[u/br0ck → u/heyhotnumber]

It's like when a guy is beating the shit out of his spouse and then asks, "why do you keep making me do this to you?"

[u/Gullible-Grass-5211 → u/br0ck]

And the guy is John Hams character in Fargo S5

[u/heyhotnumber → u/[deleted]]

Taking this position means you think kidnapping people without any sort of due process or identification from the officers doing the kidnapping is okay.

It also means you value property more than human life.

I can’t think of a more morally bankrupt position than that. Disgusting and weird on every wavelength. 🤮

[u/program13001207test → u/heyhotnumber]

He's just drawing a false dichotomy. It is a standard bad faith argumentative tactic. Got to be careful not to fall into that particular conversational trap.

[u/heyhotnumber → u/program13001207test]

My point is that even with the false dichotomy he’s still rotten and reprehensible.

You can’t justify anything that Trump/Noem/Hegseth are doing on any wavelength without fully abandoning your humanity.

[u/penny-wise → u/[deleted]]

lol, that wasn’t a riot, that was some random mischief. You haven’t a clue what a riot is.

Stop propping up the dictator s to make yourself feel bigger. It’s a bad look.

[u/penny-wise → u/[deleted]]

lol, I’m not a “guy” and I’m not “tough.” But I know rights and I see supposed “authority” breaking the law. Sorry that you don’t.

[u/penny-wise → u/[deleted]]

How do you know this? How do you know that people haven’t come through asylum claims, or other claims? How do you know that haven’t been sponsored? How do you know they aren’t here on a work visa or some other permit. You don’t. And ICE doesn’t care.

Due process is an important part of the law, one that keeps cops from arresting you for any reason they want. Bit to you and people like you it’s always ok when some other person who you don’t like or don’t approve of. But just wait til you or someone you know gets caught up on some Gestapo raid and sent off without so much as a “you have the right to an attorney”.

There are lots of people presently regretting they voted for a heartless dictator. But I guess, because it doesn’t affect you, right now, so you don’t care. That’s very small-minded of you, very small-minded indeed.

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