A video recorded last week has ignited outrage online after it captured ICE agents violently arresting two brothers in South Norwalk, Connecticut, in broad daylight without producing a warrant. The men, identified as Ricardo Chavez and his brother, reportedly hold legal status to live and work in the United States.

The footage (credit @alwaysfilmthepolice) shows plainclothes ICE agents forcibly detaining the men in a public area. Witnesses say the agents refused to provide identification or present a warrant when asked, instead resorting to physical force and a taser to subdue the brothers before hauling them away. They also allegedly damaged their vehicle.

Community members who know the Chavez family insist that both men are law-abiding residents with valid documentation. “They work, they pay taxes, and they belong here,” said one South Norwalk resident who witnessed the arrest. “This was nothing short of a kidnapping.”

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250820120402/https://thenerdstash.com/masked-ice-agents-smash-car-beat-and-arrest-local-father-without-warrant-in-connecticut-another-day-in-dystopian-hell/

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    Dont you guys have the ENTIRE amendment against this shit? Wear a strap, conceal carry and if somebody tries to literally kidnap you, just protect yourself.

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      I imagine for most, outside of a larger organised effort, the calculus is fairly simple. ICE agents are likely “itching” for someone to reach for a piece, for an excuse to shoot an “illegal”. And it’s not like law enforcement’s going to show up acting all reasonable to a scene with dead ICE agents too. Anyone shooting an ICE agent would get plastered all over FOX not as a defender of individual rights, but as a case in point for the propaganda machine.

      Resisting is an almost certain death warrant. Not resisting you maintain ‘hope’ that reasonable minds will win out in the end / that you’ll only be locked up for a short time.

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        You are right in your assessment, but unfortunately, if nobody starts with active defense, it will only get worse and more “accepted” by society. That is how indoctrination is done, in small steps, “checking the water” for whats accepted by the masses and whats not, slowly pushing more and more into the extremes.

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    Watching this shit happen in America from afar really is a mind fuck. I continue to fail to understand how Trump can still have any support is beyond me. The facism is just so god damn blatant at this point

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      Racism. The answer is racism. His white supremacist supporters love watching masked secret police beat the shit out of brown people. Then they’ll blame the next closest person when the food stops being produced and the farm food all rots on the vine

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        I saw a bumper sticker the other day that resonated with me “Stop pretending your racism is patriotism”

        It reminded me of something an African American woman said to me during college more than 20 years ago “I always watch out for people that love to fly the American flag because you never know what that really means.”

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        And beyond racism it is happening in blue cities.

        His supporters are primed to think that cities are dangerous places already, and that a city led by liberals is in shambles, and that all the people living there are lawless liberals that deserve punishment.

        They are cheering about this because they see it as sending their troops to go hurt others. Whether those people are other because of their race, their religion, their gender, their sexuality, or their political beliefs.

        And when these same people find out that something about them or a loved one makes them other they will act shocked. They will protest that they aren’t an other they are in the in-group.

        And then they will learn the true nature of fascism. The in-group is constantly shrinking, because there must always be an other to blame. And they will learn that lesson too late.

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      Just find like-minded people, dress up like they do, don’t identify yourself and wear a mask, and do whatever you want. It seems to work for them.

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    Imagine, I got a 7 day ban on Reddit for saying it would be funny if someone stole an ICE dick’s car and left him standing there with his little mask.

    These guys deserve so much worse than being stranded like that. And Reddit is ri-god-damn-diculous.

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    I have no idea how not a single ICE agent has been killed yet?
    Apparently the good guy with a gun is a myth.

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      Because they don’t try this shit with people who look like they can hit back, most of those have real arrest warrants on them so they can leave that for local and state cops to deal with and just focus on ambushing students and day laborers and people with small children

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      It’s possible they have, and those incidents get suppressed for fear of encouraging imitators - similar to Luigi Mangione.

      News sites want you scared, but not angry.

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      That’s a poor strategy and most people understand that on some level. Either because of the civil rights movement and understanding the value of the moral high ground or because people understand they want violence to declare martial law. That just isn’t the play.

      Also Luigi isn’t a myth.

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        I won’t comment on whether political violence is the right thing to do, but if you think the civil rights movement was peaceful you’ve been taught some disgustingly whitewashed history. Ever heard of the Black Panthers? They got in firefights with the police all the time, even though many would later pretend that MLK was the only and unanimous voice for all of America’s oppressed.

        Also the whole Civil Rights movement can be traced to the Civil War, instigated in part by people like John Brown whose whole thing was massacring slavers in the name of God.

        This rewriting of history of America as a nation of peaceful citizens who got their Rights by Asking Nicely fucking pisses me off.

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          MLK was the only and unanimous voice for all of America’s oppressed.

          And MLK himself is extremely whitewashed. His focus on economic justice and anti-imperialism are typically left out of the stories told about him in media. As well as the fact that he was broadly unpopular with Americans in his time.

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            Also the fact that he credited the Black Panthers with allowing him to be able to do what he was doing by protecting the protesters from retribution, and saying that the only reason that they weren’t doing anything more was because what they were doing already was illegal and anything more would risk actual jail time.

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              There’s also the armed nonviolent wing that gets left out, like the Deacons and the various unaffiliated armed people who literally did have to be ready to kill in order to defend some of the nonviolent protestors - one SNCC person in an interview mentioned they and a few friends were staying at an old black woman’s home after a march in Alabama, and she had half of the local black community entrenched, quite literally, with their guns in her front yard all night, because the police had shown up with what amounted to a lynch mob for the protestors.

              I also think a lot of people confuse moral nonviolence with strategic nonviolence or pacifism. You can be nonviolent and still be absolutely armed, trained, and ready to do violence if needed.

              There’s a fantastic book, This Nonviolent Stuff Will Get You Killed, that really hits the lost portions of the civil rights movement, including the armed wing of the movement.

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          Thank you boondocks for showing me Malcolm X. Yeah I know but this game is a bit different. Gotta be smarter this go around, money, it’s all money. Your color never really mattered it was just convenient.

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            If it’s all money… How do you propose the fascists will go away? Good words and peaceful protests don’t mean shit when the oligarchs own the quasi-totality of the media landscape.

            As a totally unrelated thought, Luigi’s alleged cheap 3D printer did more for access to healthcare in the US than every government from the past decade-and-a-half and that’s a straight fact.

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              Pay half the fascist to deal with the other half! Lucky for us all they’re selfish whores to their very core.

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        I tell you what the real myth is. Thinking they need violence to declare martial law. They clearly don’t. So that’s an argument people need to stop making.

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          Real martial law. And they need footage for the news they just are not getting right now. Not to say the current state of things is sustainable.

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      'Muricans should have more than enough guns. Where are they now? Hiding like rats, waiting for the Nazis to fully take over?

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        Organized federal financed paramilitary units with a hierarchy and a support structure and a multi-billion dollar PR budget are going to outperform random disconnected vigilantes who are too afraid to so much as wave at one another.

        This is the same problem the Spanish Anarchists had against Franco. Its the problem German and Italian Communists had against the Fascist/Monarchist alliance. It’s the problem the French Resistance had against the Nazi occupation and the Hamas / Hezbollah resistance has had against the IDF.

        Simply owning a firearm isn’t enough. You need a community of like-minded people operating in concert towards a recognized goal. That’s the difference between the Vietcong and Ruby Ridge. That’s what separates successful insurgencies from “lone wolf waterboarded to death in Gitmo blacksite”.

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        Blue states have encouraged disarming while the red are stockpiling. Wonder who ICE are targeting…

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        That’s because the majority of them are fascists. What happened to American exceptionalism? It never existed. it’s a nation of soft wanna be humans disguised as capitalists.

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        many of us have mental illnesses that would put us or others in danger if we had a gun. trust me, i believe in arming ourselves, especially minorities, but what if one day i have no impulse control and shoot myself? im at a loss.

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    This is eventually going to result in a new Black Panther or Guardian Angel group like the 60s/70s.

    Will be interesting to see these masked pieces of shit face some actual competition brandishing fucking rifles.

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    Surely the don’t tread on me people are fuming and about to patrol the streets to keep their communities safe, right?

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        I see the 5th and 14th above… as a non American, can someone post the Second Amendment and then I’ll be able to post all three amendments to thousands of posts. And feel smug about it.

        Seriously, these need to be constantly posted in every single thread where it’s required

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      • unless you’re brown or darker.

      You made the classic mistake of forgetting the footnote, silly! See, now it all makes sense!

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      Sure, but that only counts if you have due process, and if people are still presumed innocent until proven guilty.

      But if you don’t get your day in court, you can’t do anything about this.

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      that is another reason why they wear masks, what they do is clearly illegal. they only get away with it because the goverment is run by crooks (but who still haven’t had enough time to change every law so instead they need to use masked bandits).

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      Problem is there will be plenty of USAians still saying “this is what I voted for”.

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      For many Americans, I think the reason for their support of 2A is so they can help the fascists against the rest of us. Most 2A supporters that I’ve met are not what I’d call good people. For the rest of us, it’s hard to find someone willing to die in the hail of bullets that will certainly follow the first shot of the resistance.

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        I have to concur. I used to work at a place where some portion of employees were NRA style gun owners. Couldn’t help noticing that the people always going on about guns were psychopaths that least should’ve been allowed near anything dangerous.

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          please view the linked article and video of what happened at the house in the article.

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            I read the article. Shooting agents such as those in the article is what the second amendment is for

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                I saw the video. Do you think that you have a point, or are you just making dipshit comments for fun?

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                  You did not see the video, anyone with half a brain would know the outcome if anyone tried to 2a in that situation. Living is better than swiss cheese

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      I always thought the whole point of 2a was to shoot POC… But I’m not an American so maybe the nuance is lost on me

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        I am an American “person of color” (gods, what stupid phrase… fuck this newspeak) who owns firearms (at home; I live abroad currently).

        Here’s the exact verbiage of the 2nd Amendment:

        A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

        Interpret that as thou wilt; we’ve been arguing about it since about 1791.

        For what it’s worth, I’d amend the amendment to include this snippet from Marx, just to confuse us all even more:

        Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

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          I don’t disagree about anything you said, just a quick note because it’s a term that’s worth understanding:

          “Newspeak” is a concept based on the dumbing down of language in order to make communication more difficult and complex concepts almost impossible. It’s not just new words or phrases. If it’s not damaging our ability to think and communicate, it’s not Newspeak. For this reason, “politically correct” alternatives (like “POC”), as well as increasingly specific terms (like “omnisexual” or “demi girl”) don’t qualify as Newspeak because they either continue the existing ability to think and communicate or enhance it by being more exacting about the concepts involved.

          I’m not trying to be pedantic, it’s just important to me that people understand what Newspeak really is because the fascists really are trying to implement it as a means of reducing resistance against them. My favorite example is “climate change” which was a term introduced by right wing think tanks to undermine the more accurate (and more alarming) term “global warming.” And it worked.

          Anyway, again I don’t disagree with your points, so please carry on!

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    Reminder: nazis are worthless pieces of trash. Who could possibly still pull out of this mess with major life changes and yadda yadda.

    Nazi COPS are not saveable. They are monsters.

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        Cops are taking people to concentration camps which will certainly become death camps or slavery in time

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        Oh fuck off. People are pissed off and rightly so, don’t impose your bloated sense of morality on them and try to villainize the people being put under the boot of fascists for viewing those fascists as inhuman monsters when they are acting like inhuman monsters. Asking people to humanize victims is fine, but demanding that people humanize those that terrorize them is just moral masturbation. Shut the hell up.

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          Oh fuck off.

          No.

          don’t impose your bloated sense of morality on them

          My sense of morality is the reason I’m not a Nazi and don’t act like a Nazi.

          for viewing those fascists as inhuman monsters

          You know what, you’re right. We should just shrug, throw our hands up, and declare “guess they’re just evil subhuman scum!” instead of looking at the problem objectively and dealing with the societal issues that lead human beings into these kinds of ideologies. I bet that’ll work this time.

          demanding that people humanize those that terrorize them is just moral masturbation

          Bullshit. They are human beings. They have some really bad beliefs and it’s ok to dislike them. You’re already justified. You don’t need the hyperbolus bullshit. You don’t need to talk exactly like they do to make your point.

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            Fuck fascists. They are subhuman scum because they are actively choosing to be subhuman scum. They forfeit their right to be regarded as a person and became part of a system of hate. It’s not an innate trait of who they are, and I’m not giving them the benefit of empathy when they are making the choice of viewing real people as targets out of pure hatred of them being a different skin color or speaking a different language or being born on a different piece of land. Nazis and fascists gave up their humanity by choice, not by nature. You’re begging sympathy for the devil to appease your ego to feel holier than thou. Fuck your soap box.

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        again with this? tolerating the intolerant is not possible. in addition, I did not dehumanize them. they do it to themselves.

        why do you support nazis?

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          It’s not about tolerating the intolerant, it’s about not using their same thought process lest you fall prey to the same kinds of propaganda. Besides, removing their humanity absolves them of their sin. This isn’t like a house cat killing birds on instinct, these people choose to do this. And they should be treated accordingly.

          Broke: Nazis aren’t human

          Woke: The worst monsters to be born on this planet are all human, and they all seem to really like swastikas

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            it’s about not using their same thought process

            It’s not even close to the same thought process though. You have to know that, right?

            removing their humanity absolves them of their sin.

            Also, I take issue with the entire concept of “sin,” so that argument holds no water for me. I mean, what a meaningless “argument”. How does it absolve them of anything??

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              It absolutely is. It’s a thought process people use to make their actions easier to justify to their own sense of morality and empathy. Militaries drill that same thought process into soldiers for the same reason. It’s much easier to shoot something than it is to shoot somebody, so your enemy must be less than human to make pulling the trigger easier. So you turn a group of people into the Other. And the more you do it, the easier it gets, and all it takes is somebody convincing you that the wrong group deserves the same treatment.

              “My enemy isn’t human. My enemy is less than human. Since the dawning of Mankind, this has been the battlecry.”

              Also, I take issue with the entire concept of “sin,” so that argument holds no water for me. I mean, what a meaningless “argument”. How does it absolve them of anything??

              I don’t care one way or another about the theology around the word “sin,” but it’s the perfect word to describe their actions. By reducing them to subhuman, you make it easy to remove their free will in the equation - it becomes the “just following orders” excuse - and it’s incredibly important to remember that they chose to do this. Nobody is born hateful, hatred is learned. They made the conscious choice to be hateful and act this way, and they should be held accountable for that choice.

              People have a hard time accepting that the worst people this planet has ever seen are as human as you and me, but to deny it is to turn a blind eye to the fact that the people in that video could be our neighbors, friends, or family. Because we know them, and they’re good people, so they’d never do something like that, right?

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                I know full well that they are human, and that any human is capable of vile things… I’m not literally dehumanizing people in that I literally see them as subhuman.

                I just have a special category on human for fascists that deserve nothing but pain and death because that’s what they are intent on inflicting on the world. They need to be stopped before they literally murder millions of innocent people.

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        Yep. Which is why they need to be dehumanized. There is a difference when it’s targeting one specific group because of their murderous hatred. They need to be stopped.

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    Remember in 2019 when Hong Kong protestors called the US for help?

    Yeah… about that… 👀

    (I saw the image and I immediately thought of Hong Kong)

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      The day someone actually kills ICE-Nazis is the day i will send financial support to muricans.