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Federal agents blast their way into house using explosives. They found young children and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend had a traffic collision with ICE (www.nbclosangeles.com)

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 54 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In a statement Friday afternoon, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman said, “Jorge Sierra-Hernandez was arrested because he rammed his car into a CBP vehicle, causing significant damage and obstructed the work of our agents and officers during course of a law enforcement operation. During this incident, agents were assaulted, and additional rioters threw rocks and other objects at our personnel. Anyone who actively obstructs or assaults law enforcement, including U.S. citizens, will face consequences which include arrest.”

In which case it is the jurisdiction of the local police to investigate a traffic collision

This is not a CBP case

[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 70 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If they do this for a simple collision, can you imagine how ICE would react if, while they're off arresting people, a group tipped over their cars? I mean, such a disturbing event would only take about four or five people, which would be terrible. I hope it never happens, especially more than once.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago (6 children)

ICE claimed that he rammed their vehicle, and that others threw stones and their car. So not a simple collision, from their official point of view. Though that does not justify what happened here.

I also wonder why this even is a case for ICE and not the police.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 78 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

ICE also claims Narciso Barranco stood his ground and assaulted officers with a weedwacker when he was clearly fleeing on the video. Their claims are worth as much as the toilet paper square I wiped my ass with this morning.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well depending on your diet, that square could have been fertilizer, so I'd say it was considerably more valuable than any claims made by ICE.

Don't undersell your own shit.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hey, with enough will power and fed up people, an ICE agent could also be used as fertilizer.

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[–] frunch@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They won't even show their faces or credentials yet we're also supposed to take their words as gospel truth

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

In a statement Friday afternoon, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman said, “Jorge Sierra-Hernandez was arrested because he rammed his car into a CBP vehicle, causing significant damage and obstructed the work of our agents and officers during course of a law enforcement operation. During this incident, agents were assaulted, and additional rioters threw rocks and other objects at our personnel. Anyone who actively obstructs or assaults law enforcement, including U.S. citizens, will face consequences which include arrest.”

ICE are lying bastards and their time is up.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I also wonder why this even is a case for ICE and not the police.

Same reason the Mafia or the Cartels don't call the police when something goes down.

If you don't take care of it yourself how will people know not to fuck with you ?

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can't really put it into words but it feels like this should be the job of the police and that someone should be able to hold ICE accountable for this, AND hand the case over to the police. But the polices does not seem to be much better, so potato, potahto?

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

ICE claimed

Well the one thing we know for certain is that whatever follows these words absolutely, without a doubt, did not happen.

[–] parody@lemmings.world 9 points 6 days ago

Sounds like a little obstruction so they went militant, you can imagine the blood pressure in the room where they were discussing it

Ramirez said her boyfriend tried to stop the Jeep, but unintentionally hit the truck.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

ICE and police lack any credibility, it's a creative writing exercise.

[–] jimjam5@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Ice-tipping, I love it.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It's not going to be long before these people start acting like medieval warriors who invade villages, ransack them, and have their way with it's people.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

They already did in 2017. We had ice raping minors in detention centers

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[–] this@sh.itjust.works 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is different from terrorism...how?

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago

Because it's state sanctioned.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So...Border Patrol is operating more than 100 miles from a land border. Yeah, they're using the loophole of counting international airports as "borders" afterall. Yay.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Always have been.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago

I don't know what's more terrifying, the actions of ICE or the faces of the local news anchors as they report on literal fascism in their own city.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (6 children)

These pieces of shit deserve cancer. They really do. Slow and miserable cancer.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

No they need to be immediately stopped

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

I hope they all get ass cancer.

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Nah they deserve to starve in a small hole in the ground.

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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 17 points 6 days ago

SWAT doesn't even use plastic explosives when breaching a regular door unless it is a special circumstance. These idiots just showed up and played gravy seals cowardly hiding behind cars for cover, blasting doors open for a fucking minor fender bender! They didn't even list charges so all kinds of constitutional rights were brazenly violated. But fuck it, they got a blank check on tax payer funds to cosplay being tactical shit heads. They even fucked those tactics up announcing to the entire neighborhood they were coming.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 31 points 6 days ago (4 children)

If you met a Nazi today would you murder them?

[–] NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Proactive self defense

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

... have the Feds not bombed a private residence for a long time?

I know of 1985 but I'm sure this is a more regular occurrence.

There must be a list, but I can't find it on Wiki.

(To clarify if unclear, the explosives used in this case was to damage the door, not to bring down the building.)

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 12 points 6 days ago

Cops have used explosive door breaching devices for a while now. I haven't turned up a ton of citations, but there's this essay from the Arkansas Criminal Justice Institute, where a seargent discusses the pros and cons of explosive breaching.

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In case anyone gets suspicious like I was, the domain name seemed... odd to me. I expected something more like losangeles.nbc.com or something.

But I did a WHOIS lookup and confirmed the company that registered it is NBCUniversal, which is the legal name of the company.

I also saw KTLA reporting this, but I didn't bother to check them. So yeah, seems like real news, for better or worse.

I hate that we need to check these things now on top of all the shit going down

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In the US, local news has historically been presented via an "affiliate" model, in which a local company is allowed to air their own programming in a particular region in exchange for a fee. So when you turn to the channel for NBC in los Angeles on the TV, it's from the national NBC most of the time but for local news it will switch to NBC Los Angeles, which is usually a different company. I would imagine NBC Los Angeles was originally an entirely different company than NBC national that later got bought by them.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

The SS and NKVD would be proud of the ICE masked clowns.

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