Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s Somali American community.
ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/10/ice-agents-tackle-arrest-american-citizen-in-minneapolis
48 Comments
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 217 pts · 261d
So start arresting them for impersonating officers or something.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 261d
“Freeze!”
“No u”
pow pow pow pow pow pow
alquicksilver@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 261d
Oh man, stop, I can only get so erect.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 261d
Oo, my popcorn is ready!
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 261d
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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 261d
You cant spell police without ice
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 16 pts · 261d
or lice
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 261d
Or pole
riskable@programming.dev · 61 pts · 261d
The entire article reads like a comedy... Of errors. The ICE agents didn't know what they were doing. Didn't know where to go. Didn't have functioning equipment. Didn't know how to use said equipment. Couldn't follow basic instructions (navigation).
Forget the innocent civilian who was pointlessly harassed and detained for a moment: They are clearly wasting US tax dollars, driving around aimlessly, without proper training, accomplishing absolutely nothing.
It is astonishingly clear that ICE is incapable of doing the most basic functions of their job. Better to not even have immigration enforcement at all than this pointless waste of government resources.
This is the clearest demonstration yet that Republicans are completely incapable of governing efficiently. Or even governing at all! If they can't even implement their own Nazi/racist ideals properly, what makes you think they can do something as complicated as balancing the budget or managing a war?
They can't even get villaining right!
frongt@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 261d
You misunderstand. That they can target anyone, at any time, is the point. They want you to live in fear.
Like everyone has this image of the Nazis being very orderly and efficient. And in some ways that's true. But the Sturmabteilung, like ICE, were not accountable to the law. If they turned up and decided they didn't like you, you could be beaten, kidnapped, tortured, or killed.
LePoisson@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 261d
I know this is a little off topic but I'm tired of the whole "Nazis were well organized and ran things like a well oiled machine" trope because it's just fantasy.
There were a ton of rather inept people in office, plenty of idiots running amock and the military structure was a joke where people who had no business playing commander got to make life and death decisions.
Like I really encourage anyone to just do some more reading on how the whole government and military was organized and the cascade of errors that came about because of it. There is a reason the third Reich lasted only 12 years and it's not just because they made bad decisions in the lead up to and during world war 2.
THB@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 260d
'"only" 12 years' just made me super depressed.
LePoisson@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 260d
Yeah it's a bummer. History is full of shitty stuff, too much of it is the same as now. Also if you study history or sociology any you start to see that humans, no matter how we organize ourselves, fall into sadly predictable patterns by stubbornly refusing to learn the lessons of our past.
mkwt@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 261d
Kavanaugh, J., concurring:
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 261d
zbyte64@awful.systems · 11 pts · 261d
Oh, he offered to show them identification but they wouldn't let him.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 261d
It’s a reference to a game about being an immigration officer in an authoritarian police state
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 261d
Which was a reference to Nazis asking for papers.
Drusas@fedia.io · 27 pts · 261d
So this guy was free to just get out of that SUV and walk away, right? He made it clear he was an American citizen, after all.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
If it were me, and I were having a bad day like I do sometimes, I might do that, asking them to shot me.
"Make my day. Fuck me up bad for the camera! Oink oink piggy!"
Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 255d
Sadly(?), they'd probably just beat you up and shove you in the vehicle.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 261d
"I mean sure it violates the letter AND spirit of the Constitution which I've been sworn to uphold, but I've been told after having their rights under [that silly document I don't care about] violated wholesale, the questioning is usually just a major inconvenience, so it's fine to harass, intimidate, assault, and capture U.S citizens similar to how I treated women in college lol."
Kavanaugh, J, basically.
reddig33@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 261d
Sue them. And be sure to sue the specific agents that did this to you.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 261d
It’ll never happen.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 21 pts · 261d
Yeah, make sure to sue the masked federal agents that are immune from prosecution by name... You know the goons who hide their identity and the us legal system has defended.
reddig33@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 261d
In a lawsuit, you should be able to unmask the identities of the people who arrested you. That used to work anyway. Who knows if it would work in the current climate, but I think it’s still important to at least try.
Maggoty@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 261d
A country where the people aren't secure from random acts of violence by their government isn't a country at all.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 261d
I guess that means we've never been a country then
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 261d
There are less than 100 countries in the world.
Actually, probably less than 50.
(Its not just the US, thing are quite fucked around the world)
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 49 pts · 261d
The awesome part is, they could do this again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, forever, because no court or congress has made it clear that they can't endlessly harass citizens
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 261d
SCOTUS said it was perfectly fine for ICE to use their racism to do things like this.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 261d
Roberts legacy will be that he presided over the court that spurred constitutional reform. He will be a villain of history.
flandish@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 261d
*nazis *kidnap American citizen…
FTFY
Wilco@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 261d
This one is a quantifiable rights violation. Sue. Sue. Sue.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 260d
This is how it begins, but this isn't how it ends.
ICE is the American Gestapo. Everyone in the United States is on the menu.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 261d
Shouldn't be tackling and arresting anyone.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 261d
What about tickling? I saw one video a month ago where they pulled a woman out from her van. And as they were trying to hold her down, the one ice agent tickles her foot.
Ever since, I've been confused, trying to figure out what POSSIBLE purpose that served.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 261d
It’s a fetish combined with the willingness and permission to commit sexual assault.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 261d
When will this stop being news? We know that no one is going to do anything about it, so all this does is outrage everyone until it happens again.
Just list the persons name in memoriam and move on.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 16 pts · 261d
If someone wants to give voice to these victims then power to them
the_q@lemmy.zip · -15 pts · 261d
skeezix@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 261d
In France if tuition is raised 2% or retirement age raised by 2 years, the entire country empties into the streets and life comes to a halt.
Here, just bitch online until distracted by the next episode of It.
Drusas@fedia.io · 5 pts · 261d
Do people lose any semblance of a safety net if they lose their job in France? No? They won't die of uncontrolled medical problems or see their child starve because they decided to stand up and make a point?
Not exactly comparable, then, is it?
skeezix@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 261d
How do you think they got to that point.
And reaching that point means they don't lose their jobs over protesting.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 261d
Did the retirement age increase by two years in France after the protests?
bananaa@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 261d
The strategy right now is peaceful nonviolence. It doesn’t make for exciting headlines, but it’s really the only viable strategy.
https://youtu.be/UGGD7iScVhw
The fascist’s next move in the playbook is to gain more power by declaring martial law. Each dead ICE agent gives them fuel to make it happen.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 261d
"We can't resist them. Resisting would give them an excuse to do the thing they are already going to do."
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 260d
The only thing Trump wants more than for people to start resisting is for people to not start resisting
the_q@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 261d