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    According to Downey councilman Mario Trujillo, the man was working when he noticed ICE was at his job. He immediately started riding his bike toward the apartments. That’s when one of the agents stopped him by grabbing one of the tires, causing him to fall to the ground.

    WTAF

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      Melyssa Rivas, who lives in the area, captured the whole thing on camera.

      “It looked like a full on kidnapping scene out of a movie, it was scary,” Rivas said. "“My dad has papers, he has his citizenship but he looks just like that man. He’s a full citizen. They stereotyped that man.”

      This is heartbreaking.

      It’s a sad confirmation of what I always feared the USA really was.

      This stain on the American brand will long outlive Trump.

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    Yeah, bcz they’re gonna start getting shot at or beaten to death with baseball bats. Is your life worth your job? This guy didnt think so, he did the right thing. Honestly, im gonna have a hard time pinning down the date of the start of the civil war when the history books are written.

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        Sure, we can mark no kings day next year as well, and celebrate. June 14th right? There was something else on that day, but I dont remember what for the life of me. Oh well.

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        And a political assassination on the same day? Yeah, that was the start of the Second American Civil War. We’ll see how quickly things heat up now

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    That is terrible journalism… Correction:

    Masked kidnappers stopped by local community.

    Unidentified masked men tried kidnapping a man in Downey. They fled the scene after local community members intervened.

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    Stop calling these assholes ICE and federal agents. We have no idea who these people are, so stop pretending.

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    They’re loving kidnapping people in CA because open carry is illegal. Imagine trying to kidnap somebody from an unmarked car with a mask on in Texas or some other open carry state?