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groundloop

(12,947 posts)
Fri May 9, 2025, 12:23 PM May 9

'Fed up' crowd in Massachusetts swarms ICE agents attempting to arrest mother

Source: The Independent

Harrowing new video footage reveals the moment a mob of angry Massachusetts residents descended on federal immigration agents and attempted to thwart their operation to detain a woman with her family.

Neighbors spotted Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials intercepting a mother who was with her teen daughter and her newborn baby at about 11:15 a.m. Thursday on Eureka Street in Worcester. The father was detained by ICE on Wednesday, according to the local immigration justice network LUCE.

[snip]

The dramatic video footage, which has since gone viral online, was captured by a witness at the scene and shows the woman clinging to her infant child as ICE agents attempt to arrest her.

A swarm of 25 locals gathered, with one heard demanding to see identification and a warrant and calling to stop the chaos. “We don’t have to show you anything,” an ICE agent reportedly told the crowd.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrest-mother-video-massachusetts-daughter-b2747948.html

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'Fed up' crowd in Massachusetts swarms ICE agents attempting to arrest mother (Original Post) groundloop May 9 OP
Gestapo Ferrets are Cool May 9 #1
Nazi Gestapo Irish_Dem May 9 #9
This is what its going to take Bayard May 9 #2
Yes calling out the Ice Nazis. Irish_Dem May 9 #11
Yes, Hundreds of thousands of citizens. Magoo48 May 9 #31
To include constituent meetings stollen May 10 #55
That's how revolutions begin C_U_L8R May 9 #3
This is how to stop this coup on our country and democracy Grim Chieftain May 9 #22
REPUBLICAN Gestapo! Call them what they are!! n/t Cheezoholic May 9 #4
Four flat tires would allow plenty of time for the community to arrive en masse and do some detainment of their own. NBachers May 9 #5
I was just thinking about that! Of course I've seen it on TV and the movies but it seems Maraya1969 May 9 #7
Stabbing tires is actually difficult. bluescribbler May 9 #14
I usually carry a big screwdriver to remove wheel covers as my car's valve stems are hard to reach Attilatheblond May 9 #16
I've got some pruning shears that would probably work, too! littlemissmartypants May 9 #29
Good bdamomma May 9 #52
Anti-ICE volunteer patrols in San Diego. . . DinahMoeHum May 9 #6
This is what happens when you leave good people no choice. Buddyzbuddy May 9 #8
My mind keeps flashing to that scene from Milagro Bean Field War Attilatheblond May 9 #19
Sounds like a good idea. Buddyzbuddy May 9 #45
I got such a horrific case of the flu A back in March, which I am STILL recovering from... Trueblue Texan May 9 #46
Yeah, we got that nasty flu in our house too, and everybody was vaxed to the max. Attilatheblond May 9 #50
People will start shooting because Congress and judicial are doing nothing travelingthrulife May 10 #56
I agree with that statement. Buddyzbuddy May 10 #60
Goddam Gestapo Hekate May 9 #10
But they ARE required to identify themselves if asked radical noodle May 9 #40
You know that & I know that, but this is an admin that makes its own rules & is lawless Hekate May 9 #41
Yes, I know radical noodle May 9 #43
Break the ice angrychair May 9 #12
All the more reason to VOTE!!! calimary May 9 #17
This cannot be stated enough. sop May 9 #26
Massachusetts knows a thing or two about starting a rebellion bucolic_frolic May 9 #13
In Worcestor Nasruddin May 9 #15
........................... bdamomma May 9 #53
It's starting. Mr. Evil May 9 #18
Resisting the Fugitive Slave Law Cirsium May 9 #20
I agree, but DownriverDem May 9 #21
Then let him. orangecrush May 9 #25
I have a friend that is rather steely in her demeanor. littlemissmartypants May 9 #30
Your options are resistance and rebellion, or learning to love the taste of the boot. Grokenstein May 9 #34
He will... either of his own volition or at the prompting by Miller, et al... slightlv May 9 #49
The GOP evangelical party say they are Christians bronxiteforever May 9 #23
They ripped a baby from its screaming mothers arms orangecrush May 9 #24
Just like Shitler did in his first reign of t(error). Remember babies in cages? Yeah, not that long ago. OMGWTF May 9 #32
This message was self-deleted by its author littlemissmartypants May 9 #27
. littlemissmartypants May 9 #28
The local bastard cops helped! asm128 May 9 #33
If they don't identify as law enforcement then what is stopping self-defense" or "defense of another" argument? Gore1FL May 9 #35
there were local police there stillcool May 9 #44
Citizens on one side BidenRocks May 9 #36
Gestapo. Martin68 May 9 #37
Gee 60 Minutes where are you? twodogsbarking May 9 #38
60 min is a magazine show iemanja May 9 #47
OK then. Where are you CBS? Rip that too if it pleases you. twodogsbarking May 10 #54
Did you do a search of CBS News articles iemanja May 10 #59
I did not search. twodogsbarking May 10 #61
ICE was lucky they didn't get beaten to a pulp MichMan May 9 #39
Or Abstractartist May 10 #57
the American schutzstaffel incarnate. Godot51 May 9 #42
This message was self-deleted by its author COL Mustard May 9 #48
Call them Out!!!!!! bdamomma May 9 #51
If they do not show ID azureblue May 10 #58

Irish_Dem

(70,000 posts)
11. Yes calling out the Ice Nazis.
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:10 PM
May 9

Wearing masks, no ID.
Asking for papers.

This is Gestapo.

Grim Chieftain

(173 posts)
22. This is how to stop this coup on our country and democracy
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:04 PM
May 9

Elected officials on both sides are doing too damn little - if they do anything at all. It's going to take We The People to stand up and say "ENOUGH"!

NBachers

(18,516 posts)
5. Four flat tires would allow plenty of time for the community to arrive en masse and do some detainment of their own.
Fri May 9, 2025, 12:37 PM
May 9

Maraya1969

(23,275 posts)
7. I was just thinking about that! Of course I've seen it on TV and the movies but it seems
Fri May 9, 2025, 12:48 PM
May 9

fairly easy to just walk around with a good knife stabbing the tires of these mutations

bluescribbler

(2,345 posts)
14. Stabbing tires is actually difficult.
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:27 PM
May 9

It would be much easier to cut off the valve stems. Quicker, too.

Attilatheblond

(5,993 posts)
16. I usually carry a big screwdriver to remove wheel covers as my car's valve stems are hard to reach
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:42 PM
May 9

I also carry a big rubber mallet to put wheel covers back on. Maybe I need to toss a mid-sized bolt cutter into my travel tool box, since I live where I can see Mexico and some hot headed ICE guys?

Buddyzbuddy

(894 posts)
8. This is what happens when you leave good people no choice.
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:02 PM
May 9

I sincerely hope that nobody gets hurt.
Ice stormtroopers need to think about what they're doing and stop. You are doing the bidding of tyrants
Ice, homeland security, private prisons and private for hire armies disguised as security companies should have been outlawed years ago.

Attilatheblond

(5,993 posts)
19. My mind keeps flashing to that scene from Milagro Bean Field War
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:44 PM
May 9

where local sheriff is addressing the obnoxious government agent doing the bidding of developers is encircled by locals protecting one of their own. The line is something about wondering if Custer rings a bell.

Edited to add: Maybe we all need to start carrying face coverings ourselves? We keep face masks in the car because there are a lot of MAGAs here who don't like vaccines of masks and we are not that far from Texas, the measles capitol of the US.

Trueblue Texan

(3,348 posts)
46. I got such a horrific case of the flu A back in March, which I am STILL recovering from...
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:03 PM
May 9

...I've thought I should start wearing a mask all the time in public. I wonder if I will ever fully recover--and I had the flu vaccine!

Attilatheblond

(5,993 posts)
50. Yeah, we got that nasty flu in our house too, and everybody was vaxed to the max.
Fri May 9, 2025, 10:09 PM
May 9

Wondering if a different, unexpected strain hit that wasn't in last fall's shot.

Hekate

(97,786 posts)
10. Goddam Gestapo
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:07 PM
May 9
A swarm of 25 locals gathered, with one heard demanding to see identification and a warrant and calling to stop the chaos. “We don’t have to show you anything,” an ICE agent reportedly told the crowd.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrest-mother-video-massachusetts-daughter-b2747948.html

radical noodle

(10,205 posts)
40. But they ARE required to identify themselves if asked
Fri May 9, 2025, 03:06 PM
May 9

and present a warrant. So they're the ones breaking the law.

Hekate

(97,786 posts)
41. You know that & I know that, but this is an admin that makes its own rules & is lawless
Fri May 9, 2025, 05:59 PM
May 9

So this is where we are.

radical noodle

(10,205 posts)
43. Yes, I know
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:17 PM
May 9

but I have to keep reminding myself of that. There's a certain percentage of people who believe them when they say they don't have to identify themselves and the media rarely points it out.

angrychair

(10,641 posts)
12. Break the ice
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:19 PM
May 9

first order of business if we ever again control majorities in Congress and the WH is to dissolve ICE or at the very least dramatically scale back their ever creeping authority. Really have reached the level of Geheime Staatspolizei and it's only a matter of time before they start killing people.

calimary

(86,439 posts)
17. All the more reason to VOTE!!!
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:42 PM
May 9

There are enough of us to keep Repubs OUT of power, if only we all VOTE!!!

bucolic_frolic

(50,505 posts)
13. Massachusetts knows a thing or two about starting a rebellion
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:26 PM
May 9

Aside from the obvious, there was Shay's Rebellion in the post-war period, essentially a farmer's revolt against foreclosures by banking interests.

Nasruddin

(1,028 posts)
15. In Worcestor
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:27 PM
May 9

In Worcester, Massachusetts, no less.

Well that sure is unprecedented. No doubt nothing will come of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Revolt

The Worcester Revolt, or Worcester Revolution of 1774, was a confrontation between American militiamen and the British colonial authorities in Worcester, Massachusetts on September 6, 1774, during the American Revolution.[1]

Mr. Evil

(3,296 posts)
18. It's starting.
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:43 PM
May 9

The fuse has been lit and it's getting closer and closer to the powder keg. It won't be long at all before these Nazi scumbags roll up on the wrong car, the wrong house, the wrong neighborhood and they will get everything they deserve.

Cirsium

(2,538 posts)
20. Resisting the Fugitive Slave Law
Fri May 9, 2025, 01:52 PM
May 9
Resisting the Fugitive Slave Law

In September of 1850, Congress passed five bills known collectively as the Compromise of 1850 in an attempt to defuse North-South tensions over slavery. As a result of the bills’ passage, California entered the Union as a free state, New Mexico and Utah territories were established with the question of slavery left to popular sovereignty; the borders of Texas were set; the sale and trade of enslaved people (although not slavery itself) was outlawed in the District of Columbia; and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 was strengthened to devastating effect.

Freedom seekers were no longer entitled to due process or trial and could be captured solely on an enslaver’s word. Officials who refused to cooperate with the return of freedom seekers could be fined and imprisoned. Although Massachusetts had a personal liberty law—the “Latimer Law”—to protect freedom seekers, Black and white abolitionists also formed the Boston Vigilance Committee and the secret Anti-Man-Hunting League to resist enforcement of the federal law. There were early successes as well as failures. In 1851, abolitionists liberated Shadrach Minkins from the Boston courthouse and conveyed him to freedom in Canada, but another freedom seeker, Thomas Sims, was captured and returned to Georgia. Three years later, the rendition of Anthony Burns, a freedom seeker from Virginia, galvanized Boston. After a failed rescue attempt, thousands witnessed the “vile procession” of federal troops and marshals that conducted Burns to the waterfront and by U.S. revenue cutter back to enslavement.

https://www.masshist.org/features/boston-abolitionists/resisting-fugitive-slave-law


Boston Responds

This law had an immediate impact in Boston. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner declared the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 "a flagrant violation of the Constitution, and of the most cherished of human rights—shocking to Christian sentiments, insulting to humanity, and impudent in all its pretentions." The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society insisted that the law: "be denounced, resisted, disobeyed, at all hazards. Its enforcement on Massachusetts soil must be rendered impossible. The testimony against it must be so emphatic and universal, that no slave hunter will dare make his appearance among us, and no officer or the government presume to give any heed to it. The religious or political journal that refuses to record its protest against the law must be unmasked, exposed, and held up to popular abhorrence."

In early October 1850, Black Bostonians met in the African Meeting House in protest of this new law and called upon their White allies to gather with them at Faneuil Hall to plan their collective response. At this meeting in the Great Hall, together they formed the third and final iteration of the Boston Vigilance Committee to assist freedom seekers coming to and through Boston on the Underground Railroad.

By October 1850, slave hunters came to Boston in search of Ellen and William Craft, only to be thwarted at every turn. In February 1851, Bostonians, under the leadership of Black abolitionist Lewis Hayden, successfully rescued freedom seeker Shadrach Minkins. Later that spring, despite the best efforts of the abolitionists, slave catchers brought Thomas Sims back to slavery. And in 1854, authorities arrested Anthony Burns in the city’s most infamous and last major Fugitive Slave Law case. The Burns case and changing public opinion led the passage of another Personal Liberty Law in Massachusetts, making it nearly impossible to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in the state.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/fugitive-slave-laws-boston.htm

littlemissmartypants

(27,756 posts)
30. I have a friend that is rather steely in her demeanor.
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:26 PM
May 9

She's an IV nurse. Once I told her that I was afraid of something...

She looked me in the eye and said, "If you're scared, get a dog."

The truth is "Action Conquers Fear" and that's why we have to DO Something, as Michelle Obama beautifully said.



❤️

RESIST!! ✊️

Grokenstein

(6,008 posts)
34. Your options are resistance and rebellion, or learning to love the taste of the boot.
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:36 PM
May 9

Neither option is pleasant but these are the cards we've been dealt.

slightlv

(5,568 posts)
49. He will... either of his own volition or at the prompting by Miller, et al...
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:45 PM
May 9

I don't look forward to it, but OTH, I'm tired of living in fear of it, too. Let him do it and make sure there are consequences he and his magats will have to face. That's the next big thing that needs to happen, no matter what form a protest takes. There MUST be real consequences for him and his minions, no matter how much he attempts retribution. We need to keep throwing the ball into his court, regardless of what he does. MAKE him own it; make him accept accountability. No one else has ever done that to him in his entire life. Just imagine the feeling of triumph it will give us when we make that happen!

bronxiteforever

(10,453 posts)
23. The GOP evangelical party say they are Christians
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:05 PM
May 9

but their actions highlight the lie of their claim. The GOP supports wrenching infants and mothers from their arms. We know that their morality is a LIE.

orangecrush

(24,721 posts)
24. They ripped a baby from its screaming mothers arms
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:10 PM
May 9

Just like the Nazis did in the concentration camps.

OMGWTF

(4,727 posts)
32. Just like Shitler did in his first reign of t(error). Remember babies in cages? Yeah, not that long ago.
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:28 PM
May 9

Response to groundloop (Original post)

Gore1FL

(22,464 posts)
35. If they don't identify as law enforcement then what is stopping self-defense" or "defense of another" argument?
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:38 PM
May 9

Could a crowd subdue and detain those impersonating police officers until the real police arrive.

stillcool

(33,933 posts)
44. there were local police there
Fri May 9, 2025, 07:16 PM
May 9

for crowd control....or whatever. Several people were arrested for things like disorderly conduct.


BidenRocks

(1,515 posts)
36. Citizens on one side
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:44 PM
May 9

ICE and an illegal executive order on the other.
I keep thinking of Lexington and Concord.
The Shot Heard Around The World!

Unless chump goes full Gaza on us, millions of armed citizens should scare the crap out of any of our service members.
When fellow veterans are fighting you, you ought to rethink your mission and your oath.
CHUMP IS NOT THE CONSTITUTION..

I felt the power of the people as a Marine during Vietnam. Shouted down as a baby killer, spat at. Then came the Gulf Wars and they were heroes.

Things will change back and our soldiers will be reviled again.

Their choice. Come for us and it's war.

iemanja

(56,020 posts)
47. 60 min is a magazine show
Fri May 9, 2025, 09:31 PM
May 9

They plan stories months in advance. The job has never been daily coverage.

As for where the media was, you’re reading a story from the media. That’s how you know about it.

iemanja

(56,020 posts)
59. Did you do a search of CBS News articles
Sat May 10, 2025, 09:53 AM
May 10

and news airings? I expect not. This took me two seconds to find.

https://m.


Abstractartist

(240 posts)
57. Or
Sat May 10, 2025, 09:29 AM
May 10

Or worse… it may be on the brink… vigilante action could very easily become a way of life in some areas. The problem with that is ICE would be replaced with army and national guard…. Even though that may happen, the key to STOPPING ALL OF THIS CRAZINESS ….IS TO VOTE THE CONGRESS BACK TO DEMOCRATS.

Godot51

(473 posts)
42. the American schutzstaffel incarnate.
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:08 PM
May 9

These things will happen, continue to happen, and will increase happening until we get used to it.

Then we will be lost.

Response to groundloop (Original post)

azureblue

(2,431 posts)
58. If they do not show ID
Sat May 10, 2025, 09:43 AM
May 10

Then they are kidnappers, and should be dealt with accordingly. Citizen's arrest, for starts. Too bad they got roughed up in the process. "Officer" they refused to ID themselves, so we thought they were trying to kidnap this person. Can't be too careful these days. And there are lots of crazy people running around claiming to be cops. We're just dong our duty as good citizens."

I seriously doubt a citizen could be convicted of assault on an "officer" if the "officer" does not show ID. If a real cop arrests, then that shows collaboration and cover up.

I suggest making signs to the affect of "Anyone attempting to kidnap / arrest a person, or invade a domicile, without properly Identifying them selves before the action, will be assumed to be a criminal, and their action will be stopped by whatever means necessary. They will be subject to citizen's arrest and bound over to the authorities.

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