ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrest-minnesota-mexican-restaurant-b2902000.html

I hope the staff spat in their food

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DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 310 pts · 208d (7 replies)

That's some Tarantino villain level bullshit.

hayvan@piefed.world · 85 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Tarantino wishes he could come up ridiculously evil shits like those.

ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 208d

This is similar to the beginning of Inglorious Basterds. The milk scene.

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 208d

Nice Guy Eddie: C'mon, throw in a buck!

Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don't tip.

Nice Guy Eddie: You don't tip?

Mr. Pink: No, I just kidnap them afterwards.

kambusha@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 208d

Or Rodriguez: You really must try this because it's “puerco pibil”. It's a slow-roasted pork, nothing fancy. It just happens to be my favorite, and I order it with a tequila and lime in every dive I go to in this country. And honestly, that is the best it's ever been anywhere. In fact, it's too good. It's so good that when I'm finished, I'll pay my check, walk straight into the kitchen and shoot the cook.

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 208d

I was thinking Johnny Depp's character in Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 208d

I wonder if they leave a bad or good review too

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 208d

It's as cold as Minnesota in January

Rhoeri@piefed.world · 134 pts · 208d (16 replies)

Why those nazi terrorists aren’t being denied service everywhere they go is beyond me.

BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 60 pts · 208d (15 replies)

Probably because they're often not clearly identifiable as law enforcement, let alone ICE. Can't It's not good business to deny service just because they look the type that might be ICE.

Edit: People seem to be misunderstanding my intentions here. Businesses should totally refuse service to anyone clearly showing to be ICE or acting in a racist way. Fuck them.

I'm saying that it's not in their best interest to deny service to middle aged white guys / rednecks because they look like they might be in ICE. They'd go out of business.

mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 208d (1 reply)

They certainly can, law enforcement isn't a protected class. It might be bad for business, but nothing is stopping anyone from denying service to LEOs

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 208d

@BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works is saying they_don't_ clearly identify as cops when showing up to eat

lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 208d (7 replies)

If they're going to stereotype people to detain them there's nothing wrong with stereotyping them back. It won't kill them to pack their own lunch.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Define the type? Middle aged white dude? Maybe fat, maybe not. Maybe bald. Maybe not?

Most don’t have visible Nazis tats.

lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 207d

Groups of white, bearded, men in sunglasses and baseball caps, walking around puffed up with authority. It's either ICE or cops, either way, fuck em.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 208d (3 replies)

“Go get some lunch big boy.”

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 207d (2 replies)

That gravy seal is really holding the thin-crust line.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 207d

That guy told me he fucked my mom on Xbox call of duty 20 years ago.

eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 207d

Too bad he's a Nazi and deserves to be cold and alone at night the rest of his life, 'cause that's a super cuddly looking guy.

0x0@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 207d

I think you missed the point of what stereotyping is...

JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl · 11 pts · 207d (2 replies)

Republicans have literally fought tooth and nail to be able to refuse service to anyone (in their case, LGBTQ people, disabled people, and black people) which absolutely can and should be used to the fullest extent against them.

BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 207d (1 reply)

My stance is fuck ICE, but not people who are possibly ICE. Judge people based on how they act and the message they send, not based on which race and age group they belong to

Jarix@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 207d

For what it's worth, I understood what you meant and am confused by their replies to you.

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Yea, they actually can. They can kick anyone out for any reason so long as it's not because they are a protected class.

BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 207d

I wasn't arguing the legality, just that it's not in their best interest to deny service to someone because they might be ICE. If they can clearly tell that the people who walked in are ICE or acting in a racist way, then deny away.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 88 pts · 208d (6 replies)

They're butthurt that they couldn't eat at a Mexican restaurant in last few days (sound on for best effect)

EvilBit@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 208d (4 replies)

Maybe instead of heckling them out of restaurants, we should use those moments to record them removing their masks so we can connect them to their crimes?

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 208d (2 replies)

And lacing their food with a lot of laxative.

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Tiger whiskers. The victim dies weeks later, and you can just find them around tigers.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 207d

Lots of free-range tigers around Minnesota?

Serinus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 208d

There's more than one opportunity, and the heckling was pretty good.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 208d

Minnesota Nice. Fuck Ice!

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 65 pts · 208d (1 reply)

So these dangerous criminal aliens were perfectly safe while preparing and serving them food and running the restaurant, but became dangerous as soon as they closed up for the day?

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 208d

Snowflakes probably couldn’t handle the pico. And that’s just embarrassing.

Soulphite@reddthat.com · 63 pts · 208d (3 replies)

I hope the staff put extra "special sauce" in their food at least. Disgraceful nazi fucks.

mumblerfish@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 208d

Like the chumbawamba song

When fine society ICE agents sits down to dine
Remember that someone is pissing in the wine

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 208d

I’d cancel the clam chowder.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 208d

"norovirus sauce or e-coli o1h57"

crimes_of_ICE@lemmy.4d2.org · 35 pts · 208d

If anyone wants to help document their crimes, check out https://crimesofice.org/ :)

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 208d

Hope someone doxxes these bastards. Presumably they had to take the masks off to eat.

AlexLost@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 207d (3 replies)

Simple response: Don't feed the animals.

Jarix@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 207d (2 replies)

Oh you feed them you feed them the off menu special.

That actually reminds me of a story.

So in 2002 I worked at a place where the old owner still owned the property and he would come by to collect his rent cheques. German fellow, old guy.

He told a story once about growing up in Nazi Germany, he was very young at the time but old enough to remember it things.

In the town he grew up in, it was a small town, turns out one day the local butcher and his wife had the SS show up and take them off to be executed.

What they found it was Gestapo officers kept going missing in the area and everyone thought that they were taken to be questioned. No no it turned out that the old couple, who's children had long left the town and had lived elsewhere, were snatching Gestapo officers and then butchering them and selling them by turning them into sausages.

He said the sausages tasted completely normal and everyone was quite surprised how good the sausages were given the fact they they were all eating human sausage

northernlights@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 207d (1 reply)

I mean they're pigs, must be pork.

Jarix@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 207d

Long pork as they say

CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 207d

Ah, so that explains a few things. A place I went to get some food yesterday, had the front doors locked. Someone had to let me in. Every time I've ever been there, it's usually busy Being vague just in case ICE were to read this.

Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 208d (4 replies)

Hypothetically, how would the police determine who on the staff accidentally added rat poison to their dish if there were no witnesses?

SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 207d (2 replies)

Realistically, all of them would be considered guilty of the crime by simply being in the kitchen when it happened.

A conviction hungry DA would use the same laws that apply murder charges to the guy who drove the car. If it happened, and you could have theoretically known it was going to happen, and you still participated in any conceivable way, you also legally committed the crime.

This is one of the many ways this country persecutes black and brown people to feed the prison labor industry.

Butterpaderp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 207d (1 reply)

Working in a kitchen isn't a felony though, nor is serving food normally. Now, if someone said they spit in the food and you knew about it but still served it, that could be a felony. If that 'spit' turned out to be rat poison and killed a guy, that's felony murder.

There has to be a level of participation before felony murder happens. If you knew about something bad happening and did nothing to stop it. But, they have to be able to prove that you knew about it, or at least convince the judge/jury

Agree with you about it being used disproportionately on non-white though, there's some fucked up felony murder charges out there.

SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 207d

You're not wrong, but you're not thinking like a shithead DA.

Rat poison was taken from the floor and added to the food of a police officer. We don't know who exactly did it, but everyone in the kitchen could reasonably have known it was happening and did nothing to stop it, and therefore is guilty of felony murder.

Again, the DA doesn't need to be right, they just need to convince a grand jury that there's a chance they're right, then they force the accused in to a plea deal. Because these are kitchen guys, they don't make much money, so they'll be using a public defender who will likely tell them they're going to prison, and the best thing they can do is plea out.

Fleur_@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 207d

Head chef, venue manager, and operator are all likely to face criminal charges for something like that. Regulators do not fuck around, least here in aus

Cruel@programming.dev · 24 pts · 207d (2 replies)

It is unclear who the individuals arrested are or what the reason was for their arrests

Wow great reporting. Didn't contact the restaurant or anything. Just writing about videos people post on social media.

BanMe@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 207d

That is unfortunately SO much media these days. We should demand better, the media is the fourth pillar and its corruption and failure is to blame as much as anything else.

northernlights@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 207d

Not even telling us if they paid their bill, so i'm guessing not. Just ate for free then arrested them.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 208d (1 reply)

So they got booed out of one Mexican Restaurant and arrested a bunch of people at another in a fit of petty revenge?

Cruel@programming.dev · 1 pts · 207d

Unlikely. If they wanted revenge, why wouldn't they arrest people at the restaurant from which they were booed?

rayyy@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 207d (2 replies)

They never heard "The Scorpion and the Frog"?

pirating@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 207d

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 207d

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someguy3@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 208d

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers reportedly arrested three staff members from a Mexican restaurant outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Thursday evening, hours after the officers ate lunch at the establishment.

58008@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 208d (4 replies)

Evil. Gimme a better term and I'll use it. But for now: evil.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 207d (2 replies)

evil implies the only way to beat them is to be "good'. it demonizes them into being monsters, which is no different than what they do.

a better term is reprobate.

an unprincipled or depraved person

NeilBru@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 207d (1 reply)

I would add unscrupulous, but it may be redundant.

Having or showing no regard for what is right or honorable.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d

oh I like that.

SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 207d

Evil is a nebulous term that can be applied by anyone to anything.

Similarly, calling them vile disgusting filth doesn't work, as it could be used by members of ICE to describe the innocent men women and children they abuse.

We need a term that satisfies several criteria.

It must be true, in so far that it is inarguably applicable to any member of ICE.

It must be understandable at a 5th grade reading level, because this is America and that's as good as most of his supporters can manage.

And it must not be applicable to the victims. Therefore the term cannot be purely emotional. But evoking an emotional response is kind of the goal.

Idk how about Genocide Squads?

elbiter@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 207d

At least I hope the staff spit on their food.

ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 208d

I hope the staff spat in their food

They probably didn't, hoping to prevent exactly what happened.

el_twitto@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 208d

I'd prefer arsenic

MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 208d

Horrible evil bastards thinking they are being clever

Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 207d

And they also arrested the people who hired these Illegal staff members right? Right?

Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 207d

I have midwest crisis fatigue and so Does most of america.

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 207d (2 replies)

anybody know how to read the independent without an overlay telling you to swipe to read the next article covering up the current article you're trying to read?

makes me want to just add them to my network blocklist

Valo85@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 207d

On mobile I use Firefox (I know I know just but hang on a minute) and there's the option to turn to page reader friendly with a tap of an icon in the address bar, near the right side.

That usually gets rid of intrusive overlays, formats the text into a more readable face type and also uses dark mode.

On topic - I'm so sorry America is infested with ICE

pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 207d

NoScript so it blocks JS by default

toeknee@piefed.social · 4 pts · 207d

I hope all their future meals taste like piss and flies

Zahille7@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 208d (3 replies)

Appropriate

Edit: it's the song from the South Park Yelp episode. 🙄

jago@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 208d (2 replies)

Please don't post links to video (esp. Youtube) without, at the least, a description of their contents. Thank you

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locahosr443@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 207d

Boogers and cum

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 208d

ICE the staff was afraid, and that made them an easy target...

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d

Yow! What a scoop!

DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 207d

WE need the Charmed Ones to curse those ICE Agents. Luckily, there's an Instant Karma Spell in the show (s04e03):

"Let Cruelty, pain and evil ways Follow this villain through all his days Reverse the torment, he creates To turn on him a crueler fate' (Just change 'villain' to 'ICE Agent')"