In ‘Operation Trojan Horse’, masked officers in unmarked vehicle arrest 16 people, despite court order halting raids

US border patrol agents carried out a raid outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles on Wednesday, with officers jumping out of an unmarked rental truck and chasing and arresting more than a dozen people.

Videos of the operation, and federal officials’ statements boasting about the detentions, have raised questions about whether the US government was complying with a federal court order halting indiscriminate raids in the region due to evidence of racial profiling. That ruling, upheld last week by an appeals court, followed reports of Latino US citizens getting swept up in LA raids and accounts of undocumented people being targeted based on their appearance and whether they spoke Spanish.

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    5 days ago

    Idk man, I’ve seen quite a few people arguing against these cunts and they don’t really seem to care that what they’re doing is completely illegal and inhumane.

    So aside from violently resisting a literal gang of armed thugs in fighting gear, what the fuck are you gonna do if you can’t run away?

    And I don’t really see any court accepting some John Wick type of dude blowing heads off hundreds of ICE agents either, even if they are illegally kidnapping people.

    I can only wish

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      5 days ago

      I mean boycotts do work. Penske losing business over this might help.

      As does tossing the stinkiest canned fish/egg products you can find into the back of rental vehicles crammed with sweaty fascists wearing unwashable body armor on a hot day.

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        Oh yes I’m not even remotely implying you should stop resisting.

        I’m just saying that a person by themselves can do very little.

        Should write and publish some sort of manual on how to behave in case of a raid like that. I’m sure there are dozens but if everyone had the same one and everyone was on the same page, linking arms, dousing tear gas canisters with water and baking soda, having umbrellas (to shield from mace), etc etc.

        But yeah sounds like surströmming is made for this job.

        Mad Cook - Surströmming