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submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

In ‘Operation Trojan Horse’, masked officers in unmarked vehicle arrest 16 people, despite court order halting raids

US border patrol agents carried out a raid outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles on Wednesday, with officers jumping out of an unmarked rental truck and chasing and arresting more than a dozen people.

Videos of the operation, and federal officials’ statements boasting about the detentions, have raised questions about whether the US government was complying with a federal court order halting indiscriminate raids in the region due to evidence of racial profiling. That ruling, upheld last week by an appeals court, followed reports of Latino US citizens getting swept up in LA raids and accounts of undocumented people being targeted based on their appearance and whether they spoke Spanish.

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[-] mercano@lemmy.world 153 points 6 months ago

Honestly, how is the average person supposed to tell the difference between a federal raid and gang activity?

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 70 points 6 months ago

Right now, they're effectively the same thing.

[-] Laser@feddit.org 67 points 6 months ago

This graphic will help you:

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago

That graphic missed an opportunity for "thank you for your attention in this matter"

[-] piefood@feddit.online 24 points 6 months ago

theyre_the_same_picture.png

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[-] jonne@infosec.pub 16 points 6 months ago

Probably a good idea for California to loosen the gun laws (even if just temporary). The only reason they think they can get away with this shit is because they know nobody's going to shoot back.

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[-] Guidy@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

You can’t and should react accordingly.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 9 points 6 months ago

Easy, Did you end up in a basement or a death camp?

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

The gangsters have a moral code.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 93 points 6 months ago
  1. The court ruling reaffirmed that ICE needs reasonable suspicion to stop and detain people on the streets of the United States, and probable cause to arrest.
  2. It was a violation of the Penske rental agreement to transport ICE agents in the cargo compartment.

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 38 points 6 months ago

So they are just gonna ask DHS and ICE nicely to comply? Doesn't seem like something this administration is big on doing.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 25 points 6 months ago

They're probably more worried about liability if someone got hurt in the back of a truck like that.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago

That's literally all they care about

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

At least, that’s acceptable cover from any MAGA backlash if they have to blacklist ICE for “violating the terms of use.”

[-] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

They can very easily cut ties with them and refuse to rent to them. They just have to have political pressure from the populace to do so.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Idk man, I've seen quite a few people arguing against these cunts and they don't really seem to care that what they're doing is completely illegal and inhumane.

So aside from violently resisting a literal gang of armed thugs in fighting gear, what the fuck are you gonna do if you can't run away?

And I don't really see any court accepting some John Wick type of dude blowing heads off hundreds of ICE agents either, even if they are illegally kidnapping people.

I can only wish

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean boycotts do work. Penske losing business over this might help.

As does tossing the stinkiest canned fish/egg products you can find into the back of rental vehicles crammed with sweaty fascists wearing unwashable body armor on a hot day.

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[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Are we gonna dress as cops or Nazis this time?"

It literally happened like a couple months ago when a bunch of white supremacists used a penske truck to try and crash the "No Kings Protest" i believe. There was a video of a bunch of protestors heckling them into going back into the truck and driving off. I guess the difference now is that they work for the government

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago
[-] Auk@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago

Something about nazis and rental trucks.

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 months ago

"First, they rented the box trucks, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't moving that week."

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That violates the rental agreement they signed by having passengers in the rear. Also no seatbelts. Insurance adjustment needed.

Now that I think about it, start calling Penske locations(not partner locations) asking if you can move people in the trucks and how much insurance would be. Mention seeing this video.

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

despite court order halting raids

Why haven't they been arrested for the contempt of court?

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

ACAB is why

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Well you see it's just raising questions. We don't actually know how laws work in this country, so everything is a question. Donald Trump shot someone on live tv with a minigun. This raises questions about whether or not murder is against the law.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 6 months ago

Operation Trojan Horse

Wow, real creative. I bet the chuds that came up with that were patting themselves on the back

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Not a very good metaphor, either. A Trojan horse is supposed to be something willingly taken in somewhere, not just something hiding people inside. This is about as Trojan horse as a windowless pedo van.

Someone needs to make a side by side photo to really highlight the similarities

[-] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I bet those boys were proud.

[-] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Start flooding the Penske twitter and social media and ask them why they are taking part in these illegal raids. At the least Penske and others should ban the government from renting their trucks

[-] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 months ago

They already denounced federal agencies for using their trucks in that way

[-] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 months ago

I’ve maintained a mentality of Erasmus for so long; reform from within. I’ve commented before how unrealistic it is for CA/PNW secession. I’m now a huge proponent of it. Our last Civil War was fought over ‘states rights’. We’re seeing these rights absolutely demolished because of this administration. Our judicial system is flaunted, and our nation guard turned against us. We’ve been deprived of trade via tariffs, our tech is now (rightfully) spurned by our ‘allies’. CA has the largest GDP of the union (and 4th in the world) we need to make that felt.

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[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

Serious question: are the opening handles for a box truck designed in a way that I could just wedge a stick somewhere to trap them?

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Absolutely. There's a swinging lever block that can be locked in the down position, but if you stuck a half-inch stick in the lock clasp, it wouldn't swing up to release the lever. A snap-clip would work better.

[-] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 months ago

Hey there, you have a federal agency not respecting the law! Why are you still in your fucking homes?!

Do something, before it is to late:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel

[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

This is horrible and hilarious. They’re such a joke.

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

A really bad joke with guns and authority from the president. You're right, horrible and hilarious. Mostly horrible.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Yes the drug dealers and other dangerous hidden criminals at home depot!

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

These guys look real hungry, somebody should open a can of Surströmming and toss it in the back of that truck to help nourish these poor jackboots.

Additional food recommendations for enlarging these ICE lads: https://chefstandards.com/eat-stinky-dishes/

[-] Darkthrone69@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The strange thing is that Trump is so focused on deportation that he is even easily being played.

For example he started to love the German Chancellor Merz after he told Trump he would deport more people too... he increased the number from 190 to 202 people per month. Most of them were sitting in jail for various crimes and would have been deported after their sentence anyway but it was enough to impress Trump.

Or the fact that the EU promised to invest 600 billion over the next ten years in the US... which is actually a lot less than they invested before.

Or the tarrifs... the EU might not take tariffs but has put so much paperwork on US imports it becomes almost impossible to import stuff from the US into the EU directly.

Lets face it, Trump does this for the clicks, not for Realpolitik and is being played by Realpoliticians like a piano.

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