Jacelynn Guzman said she is a U.S.-born citizen. The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it "determined the individual in question was not the target."

Jacelynn Guzman said she is a U.S.-born citizen. The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it “determined the individual in question was not the target.”

Masked immigration authorities were recorded on video this week following a woman back to her Louisiana home during what the Department of Homeland Security is calling a “targeted immigration enforcement operation.”

Jacelynn Guzman, 23, was walking home Thursday from a corner store in Marrero, a New Orleans suburb, when a silver, unmarked SUV pulled up next to her and two masked agents exited, she said.

“I was walking and the first car pulled up on the side of me and I thought it was an Uber,” she said. “They said, ‘Wait don’t run, Ma’am.’ That’s all I heard before I blasted off,” Guzman told NBC News on Saturday.

Guzman said she repeatedly told the agents she’s a U.S. citizen.

  • Pavidus@lemmy.world
    86·
    3 months ago

    “Wait, don’t run ma’am” is a really weird way of giving your credentials and reason for the stop.

        • RePsyche@lemmy.world
          25·
          3 months ago

          It’s not. It can’t be. Officers of the Law must ID themselves as such. It’s basic law, and these creeps are pushing the limits, like fascists and bully’s do, to see wha the can get away with. Cowards, and Traitors the lot of them.

        • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          3 months ago

          You can tell they knew from the beginning that it was shady and they would be hated.

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Haven’t there already been documented cases of thieves dressing up this way? And the FBI also reportedly warned DHS/ICE that this was likely to happen if they continued to cover their faces etc.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        3 months ago

        I think it’s moreso been rapists so far. I have been saying that the quickest way to get the masks off ICE is to have people dress up as ICE and rob white businesses.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    36·
    3 months ago

    She’s lucky the assholes didn’t shoot her for “disobeying an order”.

    I don’t envy the PTSD she’s going to have each time she leaves the house now. ICE needs to get fucked

    • grue@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 months ago

      They’re lucky she didn’t shoot them for being jackbooted thugs indistinguishable from criminal kidnappers.

  • weariedfae@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    3 months ago

    If you watch the whole video one of the ICE kidnappers was hispanic. The step dad (?) of the girl calls him out. Wild.

  • Null User Object@lemmy.world
    19·
    3 months ago

    These guys are absolutely fucking morons! Woman walking alone. Unmarked SUV pulls up next to her and masked men jump out. And they think she’s not going to fucking run for her god damn life?

    ‘Wait don’t run, Ma’am.’

    Oh, yes, that clears everything up. Kidnappers looking to take her to Epstein’s Island for Matt Gaetz wouldn’t ever say that. /s

    Absolute fucking dipshits.