After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
Those who lived through it describe the ICE raids as a “siege” or an “occupation”.
At the height of the raids last year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets.
Then, officers killed two US citizens during an ICE “blitz” on Minneapolis. After a public backlash, the Trump administration said it would try a new approach.
A couple months ago a video was posted of an ICE agent that was stupid enough to enter an apartment complex alone. The video showed probably 200 black residents following him while dumping water all over him and mocking him. He couldn’t do anything but take it because he was so severely outnumbered.
It was one of the best things I’ve ever seen.
The lesson being that there are WAY more of us than them and there is strength in numbers.
Edit: Sauce
Sauce?
It is Reddit, so if you really hate Reddit, don’t click the link. This particular one has a guy narrating what’s happening, which is annoying but doesn’t obstruct the video. A Google search indicates the internet is at odds whether it’s an ICE agent or not.
Doesn’t change that there’s strength in numbers.
My pasta is dry. I need some sauce too.
Forgot to wet the drys, rookie mistake.
“But but but! Why is tourism taking a hit? Come back! We only violently kidnap and treat people like animals a little!”
I am begging the people who live in the states and are horrified about what is going on but feel a need to do something: please join your local mutual aid co-op or neighborhood ICE patrol.
