ICE Agent Fled From Angry Residents Outside New York School — and Got in a Car Crash
theintercept.com
Masked and unidentified ICE agents lurking near schools sparked fear, confusion, and a car crash in Latino-heavy New York suburbs.

Last week, top ICE officials ordered officers to increase arrests and to get “creative” in their methods, including trying to nab people the officers happen to encounter in what are known as “collateral arrests.” The orders come in the wake of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller setting a quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day, along with a sharp rise in protests against the crackdown.

In Westbury, the HSI agents didn’t respond to the gathered crowd. After a few minutes, the agents drove away. A commotion erupted down the road, off-camera, and onlookers began rushing toward the corner.

One of the Nissans, carrying two of the HSI agents, had crashed into a black pickup truck that happened to be passing through the intersection. Three eyewitnesses told The Intercept that the agents’ car had sped away. Two of the witnesses believe the Nissan blew a stop sign, causing the crash. (Nassau County police referred questions about the accident to ICE, which did not respond to an inquiry.)

  • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    108·
    2 months ago

    If ICE is meeting resistance even in a place like Westbury, then at least something is going right.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    84·
    2 months ago

    I watched most of the video clip. The agents all look kinda perplexed. As if they can’t understand that nearly any species alive will go nuts when you go for their offspring.

    Guys, I think ICE agents are aliens.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      2 months ago

      Well, they’re supposed to snatch innocent people, kids, break apart families, so I think it’s granted they must be some kind of sadistic psychopaths.

      After that, the way they try to get around the illegality of what they’re doing suggests they’re also very, very, very dumb.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      201·
      2 months ago

      I think it’s a case of psychopathy and the fact that some of these people TRULY don’t see black and brown people as people. The dehumanization is truly complete to the point that they really don’t understand that they’re PEOPLE, with thoughts and feelings.

      • RedPostItNote@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Psychopaths understand people a lot better than these ice agents. These are garden variety sociopaths at best

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      I didn’t see a video on the archived site, didn’t want to subscribe with an email to see the page. Does the video cover their acts and the following crash? Weighing my interests, maybe I’ll find it elsewhere

      • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        Not the crash itself. But the direct aftermath. They see something happened down the street and start going there.

        As for the agents fuckery, they get yelled at on the street outside the school and look like shocked deer at an approaching car.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    391·
    2 months ago

    So, Imma go back to my philosophy 101 argument structure days. Fill in the blank.

    Premise 1. Racists should never feel safe being racists. Premise 2. Nobody willingly becomes an ICE agent without being a racist. Conclusion: Therefore, … ?

    • asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      ICE should never feel safe, at any time, ever again. Make them NEED marines and NG cover every time they go out for one of their abduction raids.

  • Buske@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    Sooo Federal officers get to flee scenes, guess insurance doesn’t matter anymore.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    251·
    2 months ago

    I’m thinking that if ICE et al keeps this up, pretty soon random people are gonna start taking sneaky potshots at them. Amongst many, many other things, these dipshits are actively making their own jobs wildly more dangerous.

    • Odelay42@lemmy.world
      313·
      2 months ago

      That would bring the military into our communities even quicker. Seems like a very bad idea.

        • Odelay42@lemmy.world
          45·
          2 months ago

          Sniping ICE agents would make things much worse much more quickly.

          Maybe the progression of violence is inevitable, but once you start killing pigs, it will all happen very quickly.

            • Odelay42@lemmy.world
              45·
              2 months ago

              Look man, I am a protesting, pro-physical intervention, pro-whatever it takes leftist. All I’m saying is random people shooting at ICE is going to end protest and resistance, and begin the part where the government shoots and kills protestors and resistance on sight.

              If you think that’s the best plan, that’s fine. I do not. I think there is more that needs to happen before the shooting starts.

              I own many guns. I practice with them. I have thousands of rounds of ammunition. When the government starts shooting people, I will decide if I’m ready to die to protect my family and community.

              But I’m not gonna kill myself and dozens of others by foolishly “taking a pot shot” at these fucking nazis.