Federal agents detonated explosives to raid a Los Angeles home without a judicial warrant as part of Trump’s lawless, fascistic crackdown on immigrant workers and democratic rights.

On June 27, in Huntington Park, California, federal agents from Customs and Border Protection (CPB) carried out a violent raid on the home of a working class family while Jenny Ramirez was caring for her two children, aged six and one.

In a scene of militarized terror more typical of a war zone than a residential neighborhood in Los Angeles, agents used an explosive device to blast the front door off its hinges—without warning or announcement—before storming the premises.

Home surveillance footage of the raid shows eight heavily armed agents, guns drawn, storming the home after blowing the door off its hinges. Later in the video, Ramirez and her children are seen being escorted out by the agents.

  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
    122·
    2 days ago

    I’m not in america. I know how to use firearms and am trained.

    I am asking the most armed country why it is a single way range right now, when they keep saying they have firearms for this specific situation.

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      It would seem that by “tyrannical government” most of us actually meant “non-whites”.

      More directly, I would guess the people who are in a position to do something, like myself, would prefer not to be the only one showing up against a militarized police force and federalized national guard troops. Armed resistance isn’t widely viewed as necessary even though I would argue we’re past the point where it should have been widespread. Perhaps holding that belief and not engaging in such methods makes me a coward, I’m honestly not sure. I do know that I see a lot more sentiments like “where are the armed leftists” than I do “how do I join an armed leftist organization” and I don’t think we’re going anywhere until that changes. Everyone, myself included, is waiting on someone else to step in and stop this rather than deciding that it’s up to us to do it ourselves.

      • liquorisquicker@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        2 days ago

        I think it’s also that each individual person is so isolated and each small geographic region has such a lack of interconnected community. Each individual person, no matter how well armed or courageous, is nearly powerless against these organized paramilitary occupying forces in their communities.

    • Guidy@lemmy.world
      94·
      2 days ago

      Then keep your fucking mouth shut. We left wing armed people in America are few and far between, and it’s our own party’s fault. None of my IRL friends even k ow I own guns, and they’d be horrified if they did. I can’t buy standard magazines that my guns literally shipped with in the box (they are now banned), can no longer buy the same guns I already own (they are now banned), and in another year I’ll need to attend a class and fill out a form for a permit if I want to purchase a firearm, regardless of me owning them already.

      “2a where you at?” <— fuck you, that’s fucking where. We’re probably less than 1% of the population, way too few to make any difference.

      My fellow Democrats did this.

      Enjoy fascism, assholes. You made sure we can’t stop it.

    • thedruid@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 days ago

      Because most places require checks and classes. The myth of walking in and walking out with a gun in ten minutes isn’t real in 90% f the United states.

      Then there’s learning how to shoot it without scaring yourself then there’s actually knowing how to use one under stress

      Now, one would have the learn to be cold blooded enough to want to harm someone

      Those are HIGH barriers to cross, even if one a owns a gun.

      One should always save that for last. Always.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      83·
      2 days ago

      If your skin ain’t in the game you don’t get to complain. It’s easy to tell “other people” to go risk their lives.