A Somali U.S. citizen, Mubashir, was arrested by federal immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside Tuesday during a mass enforcement.
In the video, a federal officer is seen putting Mubashir in a choke hold and forcing him onto his knees in the snow as he was on his way to get food. Mubashir said he told officers multiple times that he is a U.S. citizen and asked if he could show them his I.D. Officers ignored him, dragged him in the snow and pushed him into a car as witnesses yelled and blew whistles, according to the video of his arrest.
Some other articles on this arrest:
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/somali-resident-mayor-frey-to-detail-erroneous-ice-detention/
Regardless of citizenship status, he shouldn’t be put in a chokehold and assaulted for…walking down the street while being non-white? A lot of citizens are living under the illusion that citizenship status protects people from this treatment. It doesn’t, but even if Mubashir was here illegally, he didn’t deserve this. The chokehold could have killed him, and now he has to live knowing that he can’t leave his home without risking being killed by an armed gang.
Cops have been treating citizens this way from the slave patrol days. Now it’s just ramped up. “I can’t breathe!” “Hands up! Don’t shoot!”
Yup.
Just a general reminder:
Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized
Fourteenth Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The MAGAs are reading all kinds of stuff into those words, which are very clear.
I just heard a guy rationalizing all over the place, that the 14th was ONLY to make citizens of the newly freed slaves, because…it didn’t even include Native Americans, so how could we think it means people from other countries? What if an invading soldier from another country has a child in America, is the child a citizen? Etc.
If it was to mean all those nuances they want it to mean, them those things should have been written explicitly into the Amendment, but they weren’t. So modern MAGAs don’t get to decide that they get to rewrite past passed amendments to suit their racist demands, especially since even by their own definition, it was written to do something that they would be against (citizenship for slaves and their children).
Something I haven’t yet shared or seen mentioned but I’ve suspected for some time that ICE recruitment was coordinated with the Proud Boys.
During the election campaign many Trump campaign rallies had sign-up tables for people to apply for a government job. Many younger gun-nut guys and proud boy types there were encouraged to sign up. And now there’s a bunch of them in ICE driving around terrorizing latinos and people of color. Hmm, write the coincidence, right?
Thanks, that makes sense. I still wonder how much behind the scenes coordination there is between the leaderships.
The gender neutral term is latines
This is something I have only ever heard white people argue for.
-Married into a Latino family
Likewise married into a Latino family. They acknowledge that “Latine” is a thing, but not a single one of them has heard another Latino use it in real conversation, let alone use it themselves. And they all roll their eyes extra hard, young and old, at “LatinX”. The family that speaks English all poke fun at it by pronouncing it “Latinks”.
I’m sure that some population of Latinos somewhere in the world cares about such things, but white people on the whole seem to be care a whole heck of a lot more.
That’s because your community doesn’t have many trans people who feel safe to speak up about this kind of thing. You’re only seeing trans people who feel safe to speak up about ingrained sexism among the white community. Go talk to the queer latines in your community and make them feel safe, and your experiences will change.
Ah okay. Thanks for the heads-up.
It’s not
“as witnesses yelled and blew whistles”
Wait, you’re telling me that wasn’t effective?? I can’t believe it! /s
