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.”

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Well Harris wasn’t progressive enough for me so this is okay so we can show the democrats we’re sick of them.

If 4 years of bullshit leads to a stronger opposition party that can learn from this and make sure it never happens again, great. That's admittedly a big bet against heavy odds but one can hope.

People forget this is the second time trump has been president. The Democrats had 4 years to prepare to prevent what we're currently living with. And they came up with a plan, they chose a doddering senile old man as their candidate then when it became obvious that he was a doddering senile old man they replaced him midstream with his deeply flawed and uncharismatic VP. And she lost, wow, I'm shocked.

So you’re not worried about the people who will die because Trump is in power?

There's very little I can do about it now. If i.could go back and change it I would. I can't, so I'm hoping the DNC learns from this. I'm not holding my breath. I'm 90% convinced they're controlled opposition and have been actively working towards this.

So you’re not, I got it.

I don't get why they try and weasel around it. Just own it, tankies.

We aren't the ones who could have simple not funded ICE.

And so, you're fine with what's happening under Trump. Yes, we get it.

Just own that, and stop weasling.

Would you point to anything I have said that suggests I'm fine with what's happening under Trump?

No, pointing out that the dems chose to enable this is not being fine with what's happening under Trump. Funding the gestapo being bad when the dems did it does not make it good when Trump does it.

Fine as in, when considering that either Kamala or Trump would be president, you don't care which one got in, and the results we're seeing would be the same either way.

I absolutely do care, hence why I point out what needed to be done to change the outcome.

Voting for Kamala was what needed to be done to change the outcome.

And doing fuckall to improve your constituents material conditions for 4 years while also facilitating genocide, sending the police to kick the shit out of the politically activated kids, you know the ones who phone bank and get all their friends to vote, funding ICE, etc is exactly how you make sure people won't vote for you.

Nothing I did encouraged the dems to do these things. Instead I encouraged the democrats to do the things they needed to do to win, while every lib demanding we vote blue no matter who 2 years away from the election helped them maintain the delusion the dems could win while telling their base to eat shit.

It would have been so easy too, all the dems had to do was not include ICE or Israel funding in the federal budget, or just refuse to dispense the funds, or order the head of ICE Biden appointed to fire everyone and spend the funds on something worthwhile, and suddenly the republicans symbolize returning this great evil the democrats just ended. But they had no interest in stopping any of that shit, and now here we are.

You're given 2 and only 2 options:

Option 1 - Every day:

• A child is killed

Option 2 - Every day:

• 10 children are killed
• 5 puppies are set on file
• Your neighbor gets stabbed
• One item of your personal property is stolen from you

You have to pick either one of these options, or abstain and let someone you don't like pick for you instead.

You're standing there, telling your neighbor "at least I didn't pick a child killer!"

If you're campaigning on killing a child every day, you absolutely suck at your job and need to be replaced. It is predictable that many people aren't going to vote for you.

No logic or vote-shaming or whatever is going to make killing a child every day a popular policy. You can change policy, you can't convince voters that actually killing a child every day is OK because the other party wants to kill 10 children every day.

Right, so you don't give a fuck about your neighbor. Stop pretending you do, and just admit you want to let bad people burn down the system and think your perfect ideology will rise from the ashes. If your neighbor gets stabbed, and babies start dying at an accelerated rate, so be it.

Just. Own. It.

What the fuck are you talking about?

It seems like you just made a person up in your head to get mad at.

What part are you confused about?