Null TerraMother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim
gAlienLifeformwww.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/immigra…
The teenager, a US citizen with disabilities, was in a vehicle with his mother outside Arleta high school in Los Angeles on 11 August when masked immigration agents surrounded them and pulled them from the vehicle. They said the boy was a suspect in a crime, and handcuffed him for several minutes until they realized they had the wrong person, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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The claim, filed by the Carrillo law firm on behalf of the boy and his mother, alleges that Ice and Border Patrol agents had no reasonable suspicion or probable cause to detain the boy and caused him physical injury and emotional distress. He is traumatized and depressed, his mother said to media.
The agents “racially profiled [the teen] while he was merely sitting his car waiting for his family member”, the claim states. It also alleges the agents left live bullet rounds on the scene in an act of “clear negligence”.
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USA is not only a police state, it's a terrorist state now.
The hell you mean "now"? It's always been a terrorist state
(des)mosthenesmen stormed the beaches of normandy for this shit
Here in Europe we are still thankful for the huge contribution by USA. It's really sad to see USA now choosing the path they used to fight against, and abandon democratic values they used to fight for.
styanaxIt's hard to say the USA anymore, we are very deeply divided as a country. Here on the fediverse you'll find like-minded left-oriented people (presumably, based on my travels) but man our country is in the toilet. I'm in the over-50 category, been on this Earth awhile and this is some really bad shit - in society we have accepted standards of behaviour and we all know how Trump has dealt with that - dude paved over the Rose Garden to put in a gilded ballroom. Nicolae Ceaușescu, anyone?
Last week, not an exaggeration, an older white man I know I ran into (at the grocery) said something like "if I have to pay a black man reparations, I should be able to bring him home and beat his ass first." I was in complete shock these words came out of his mouth and I'm a "rough" guy so to speak, I'll swear like a sailor daily but these racists are emboldened to spew their hate loudly in public now.
Point being: the white racists with money have taken over USA politics, regardless of how people say fancy headlines I live here - it's all about white racism and supremacy. Every single thing they do is rooted in their hate of anyone and anything not being perceived as white power. Everything else is a smokescreen, their actions show you their beliefs. Trump has (and is) systematically fired any person of color who holds a position of power or influence, it's in the news every day.
It's some of my neighbors (I live in a very "brown" area, mixed races etc.) and we're all walking on eggshells because these MAGA lunatics scream and yell like little children without any logic. "Why did Trump choose 50% instead of 35% tariffs on xxxxx, what's the math behind it or economic policy?" - "it's the art of the deal!" (seriously, that's the response - blurt out a Fox News talking point with zero knowledge, pure ignorance). It's exhausting to deal with adults who have the reasoning of a 5 year old fueled by their hatred.
I too have been noticing racist and homophobic slurs that were popular in my youth make a sudden return, even in tRump1 I did not hear it as much as now.
As a white guy living in a significantly "brown" large city, these racists are only emboldened to say it to me thinking "he's one of us" (racist); it's extremely noticeable when I repeat what they said like I couldn't hear it (being old has it's advantages) loudly so other people around us in public can hear what they said. Edit: and a major number of these people I run across are older white women from an ad-hoc statistics viewpoint.
an older white man I know I ran into (at the grocery) said something like “if I have to pay a black man reparations, I should be able to bring him home and beat his ass first.”
Wow that's absolutely disgusting, if I observed that I would definitely say so to him in no uncertain terms. But I live in a low crime country with few crazies, and I'm a big white guy, so generally I have nothing to fear.
But maybe part of the problem, is that intolerance has been tolerated way to much in USA. Making it look like the crazies have more power than they actually have.
white racists with money have taken over USA politics
Indeed they have, but not without a lot of help from for instance moronic Latinos, that thought job security under Trump would be better, and are often religious nut cases, that believe Trump is the 2nd coming of Christ.
It’s exhausting to deal with adults who have the reasoning of a 5 year old fueled by their hatred.
Best wishes, nothing much I can say, it does not look good. 😟
I'm right behind you @ 45 years old, and a Navy Vet. If it makes you feel any better, Wilson was actually worse. We've been through this before as a country, I just hope the civil war we are in doesn't spill out of the country.
No shade meant to the squids for that turn of phrase my bad; Army taught me how to swear and smoke. :)
No worries! We use that turn of phrase ourselves, since we are handed a "swear phrasebook" in basic so that we are able to properly swear at all allies and enemies.
/s
I agree with everything you said, I remember seeing this graph that shows how likely House Democrats and Republicans where likely to vote with their party between 1949 -2011, which already showed a pretty bleak outlook, here's the full paper.
The second thing that I noticed about ten years ago maybe before that was the sudden increase in misinformation on Facebook and YouTube that people will believe as truth, and since they see it engages you they will constantly bombard them with more and of it. I remember as a kid adults saying don't believe everything you read, and if so and so would jump off a bridge would you? A lot of them should have taken there own advice.
It's not just older generations, younger ones are obviously affected by it but in different ways cyber bullying, that weird Andrew Tate following and other.
I heard someone explain like this, let's say a person walks up to on the street and asks you to buy something, obviously it's easy to say no and walk away. Now instead of a person imagine it's a machine with 10 billion times more intelligent than all of humanity combined is constantly trying to get you to click a link.
The only problem with this is that those assholes are not paying the kid. It will be taxpayers money.
ThunderWhiskersI'd say a child having a gun pointed at them is a pretty fucking big problem.
Edit: Honestly, I'm at the point where more cops need to start getting shot. Pulling a gun on someone is a threat to their life. I really wany that to start being a signal for people to shoot back. Your life is already on danger, might as well go for broke and make the world a little better place.
It's the usual Law Enforcement pattern.
Taxpayers fund Law Enforcement --> Law Enforcement Brutalizes Taxpayers --> Taxpayers pay the other Taxpayers that were brutalized --> Law Enforcement receives no incentive to improve --> Taxpayers fund Law Enforcement -->
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)exciting story to tell
Yeaaah, sure, so exciting! /s
I still have ptsd from that time when cops unlawfully arrested me.
Fuck the police, ACAB.
dan1101This is wrong, she should be asking for $10 million.
I feel like all these cases tend to be around $1M, is there some weird legal threshold that maybe makes $1M cases easier to win or have less hoops to jump?
It doesn't matter with the astronomical budget that ICE now has. Despite all these completely justified lawsuits, there is still enough left over to build a well-equipped secret police force and sufficient concentration camps for all the political dissidents who need to disappear.
/s, obviously.
That sarcasm tag should keep you outta the gulags, don't worry
The "/s" refers to the fact that it is anything but irrelevant when government officials threaten people, and minors at that, for no reason. That is wrong and, of course, an abuse of power.
The rest of the statement is simply a fact: ICE has an inexhaustible budget, and I am convinced that it is being used to build a secret police force.
Nevertheless, I have no intention of ever traveling to the US again as long as the fascists are in power—not because I'm afraid of them, but because I just don't like Nazis.
This is bullshit. They need to go for a lot more than 1mm.
Like 9mm?
(I know it was a typo and I'm trying to make jokes)
It is a good joke.
The "mm" is m x m, which is 1000 x 1000, which is a million.
wait m =1000? I thought m was 10(-3) (milli prefix) and k was 103=1000 (kilo prefix)?
Yes, both are correct. I believe your definitions are more towards measurement and the sciences, whereas the usage I mentioned, and the intent of the parent commenter, is typically for finances or roman numbering.
So you say 1m is 1000?
"mm" is often used to denote "million" in various professions and locales. Not super common in the US
I thought mm was millimeters.
It's both. Different systems. Under the context of money, its million.
Drop the suit or you'll "disappear"
Wait, how is this sarcasm?
This isn’t sarcasm, this is a news article…
Yeah, replied to OP instead of another comment. Whoops. New lemmy client, who dis...
Lemmy is actually easier to get right than reddit IMO. That has to be sarcasm though, right? I guess the tone was sarcasm but the things were real? I can never tell anymore. I was always so bad at remembering to even put the /s I got banned from reddit long ago for I thought clearly sarcastic statements. I forget you can't imply things by text though, so... Yeah.
It is counterintuitive that if anybody could understand children with disabilities, you would think it's ICE agents. Being an integral part of the disabled children community themselves should have given them insight into their plight, and hopefully a little empathy, but alas!