• First, this is straight up Nazi secret police stuff. Second how did the court know these guys weren’t confederates of the folks in court intending a jail break. Where the FUCK were the bailiffs in this unlawful seizure?

  • @bunsley@lemmy.ml
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    The knock-on effect of this now would discourage undocumented migrants even just trying to engage with the legal system, being a witness or even reporting on crimes. For people on the fringes of a society it could lead to even worse exploitation and marginalization

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      While we aren’t seeing it now, it will be a matter of time before those marginalized people start packing and start shooting. Especially when they realize it is a fate worse than death or even just death if they comply.

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    So three men just kidnapped a dude.

    They need to be banned from doing this in plain clothes. At minumim. At best ICE needs to be abolished.

  • @Furbag@lemmy.world
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    I’m still baffled as to how they continue to do this unimpeded.

    These people are in court trying to enter the country “the right way” by going through the legal system and are getting ambushed by ICE and Homeland Security during their hearings. Unless the desired outcome is to depress the population of “good ones” trying to stay in the country via legal means by scaring them with the threat of sudden deportation, I don’t see what this accomplishes. This war on immigration is equally as stupid and futile as the war on drugs.

    Xenophobia has completely fried the brains of most Americans. This shit isn’t normal and never should be.

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      I live here, and I actually called the Sheriff and yelled at her about this. She said these ICE Nazis showed her deputies ID and warrants, and that she couldn’t stop them from entering. She has met with the judges who actually have the power to determine who is allowed entry, asking if they want her office to stop feds in the future. They were still considering it as of yesterday.

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    What alarmed Nicholas Reppucci, head of the Charlottesville Office of the Public Defender, is that the enforcers called in to detain the two men in the city Tuesday morning were wearing plain clothes and did not display badges or arrest warrants.

    Presumably, the courthouse is filled with cops and others with arrest authority, so why did they allow two men in plainclothes without badges or warrants leave with two people?

    If the DOGE pirates had been gunned down in the first lobby the invaded, it would have ended there, or at least gone down a different path.

    We should not be normalizing this behavior, and setting precedents. Without a badge, you will not be listened to, and you will leave the building immediately. Without a warrant, you will not be putting your hands on any person. If you attempt to bypass either requirement, you will be arrested. And if you attempt to do enforce your demands by force, you will be shot.

    • @flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      On the plus side, if anybody reading this ever has reason to think that they might need to go into a police station and remove someone being held there, apparently if you and a friend or two look sufficiently the part, you can just walk in, in plainclothes, and claim to be Homeland Security, and just… take a dude and leave.

    • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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      I wish they did have the guts to shoot the DOGE team. Especially since the DOGE goons have literally dragged people out and probably physically assaulted others.

    • Magnus
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      Jaw dropping that the US is so far gone some of its citizens are calling for the shooting of people in government buildings. That’s right! You can now live in a country where you are free to fire off rounds at will! Starbucks messed up your mocha latte? Cap off a few rounds and they’ll never make that mistake again!

      • @supernight52@lemmy.world
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        When they are disappearing people with no due process, the only logical response is violence. Gtfo of here with that dumb shit.

        • I think I’m going to have to seriously think about packing heat on regular basis for the exact scenario the 2nd amendment was written to cover.

          • @supernight52@lemmy.world
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            Not a bad idea, at this point. Just keep it at home, and only have it to defend yourself or others. It is always morally correct to stop a Gestapo agent through any means necessary.

      • @theblips@lemm.ee
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        I mean, isn’t this the exact scenario they wrote in the Second Amendment for? Can’t say this reaction is surprising given it’s at the roots of the country and extensively defended by the Founding Fathers

        • @supernight52@lemmy.world
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          Yeah, funny how the boot lickers forget their whole wet dream of being the ones that rise up, means they need to rebel against the tyrant Trump and his dumbshit sycophants.

  • @electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    They will be coming to your courthouses too. We will have to be organizing citizen barricades to keep them from disappearing our neighbors.

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    It’s horrifying to see so many incidents of kidnapping in courtrooms. I can’t imagine a more blatant and clear example of subversion of the legal judicial process.

    There would be no reason to remove them from a courtroom if you believed the court would come to the same conclusions they have. So the logical explanation is that they know that what they’re doing is illegal and that these people they’re snatching haven’t actually done anything wrong. It’s shameful that we’ve allowed this to happen in our country and frankly, it’s embarrassing that this is what the once great USA has stooped to.

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      The authorities are assholes. They go for schools and churches and hospitals and courtrooms. They won’t bother with rape cases unless they’re an easy slam dunk. They hold grudges and weaponize their power over people they don’t like. They won’t target gang members when uneducated immigrants are so much easier.

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      It’s cute you call crimes against humanity “subversion of the legal process”, from a country whose actual fucking motto is “land of the free, home of the brave.”

      The US is actually modern day facism. Ceausescu used to grab people off the streets too. Same with Hitler. When the streets aren’t safe for US citizens, at what point do you realize your entire way of life is a fucking lie?

  • @BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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    Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment? If they’re not even bothering to uphold the Constitution in a courthouse you guys are well and truly fucked.

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    What alarmed Nicholas Reppucci, head of the Charlottesville Office of the Public Defender, is that the enforcers called in to detain the two men in the city Tuesday morning were wearing plain clothes and did not display badges or arrest warrants.

    Sounds an awful lot like kidnapping. So then the question becomes: why didn’t the court officers or local police arrest the so-called “ICE agents”? Up to and including firing on the assailants, if necessary? Because if you don’t show your badge, and you can’t back it up, you are not who you say you are. And that becomes broad-ass daylight kidnapping. And the actual uniformed officers did nothing (I know why they did nothing - the call is coming from inside the house).

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      did people not remember trump had the same nameless goons in his first admin when kindapping people.

      • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        Sure, but this is frankly another level. Snatching protesters off the street is fucked, for sure. Snatching people out of a courthouse, while they’re engaged with the legal system, out from under the noses of judges, attorneys, and court officers is absolutely another fucking level.

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Because the people who work at the court were likely complicit.

      Of course they wouldn’t tell the Public Defender, but that doesn’t mean that he bailiff or whatever, wasn’t in on it.

      • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Sounds like a courthouse that is absolutely corrupt of the constitution and should be all held to treason. The U.S. brought back the firing squad, and the president preaches for no trials. If anyone knows me I love this country. That said, I’m fairly sure this country says we are required to shoot the judge by firing squad without a trial? Or maybe they havent been clear. Is it just racism based slaughter, or slaughter all around they support?

      • acargitz
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        You mean that some of those that burn crosses are the same that work forces? 🤯

    • @Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      Well maybe we can use this and go get Lugi. Just claim to be ICE and maybe the courts let us get him, thinking we going deport him to El Salvador.

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    Let’s assume for a moment that the abducters here were federal agents.

    How long before people get the bright idea that they can pull a stunt like this without being federal agents? Has that already happened?

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        I suppose the scenario I was really thinking of is one where someone is literally abducted by adults, and not just fucking idiot kids playing fuck around.

        Which has happened in the article posted here, we’re just taking them on their word that they’re actually federal agents.

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          Yeah, this was the part that really got me:

          “Show us a warrant,” the video shows one of the two women demanding as they attempt to get between the detainers and the detainee.

          “Do not touch me or impede me in my lawful duties,” the man in the pink shirt responds. “We are officers from Homeland Security.”

          That’s a real bully-logic move right there. How are we supposed to know that these are your lawful duties if you’re refusing to show us your warrant or even your badge? Like, if she had blocked them at this point and the issue were brought to court (and yes, it’s ironic that this is happening in a court), then I can’t imagine a jury saying “well yeah, you can’t prevent a guy from abducting someone just because he won’t give you any indication other than a pinky swear that he has the legal authority to do it.” But, of course, the obvious implication in the moment was that since he was from the “abduct people in an unmarked van with unlimited authority” branch of the government, this wasn’t going to a jury trial, and she was either getting out of the way or she was going in the van too.

          I dunno, man. It’s scary.

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            So what I’m gathering here, is if you can get some friends together, you can get yourself out of court in a pinch.

            This is not behavior they want to encourage long term

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              Yeah, I started to write about that, but it’s unclear that this guy would have actually gained anything by getting out of the courtroom. A lot of folks are released pending trial, in which case there’s really no advantage to getting your friends to grab you out of court, rather than just, y’know, skipping town. If he was already in police custody, I imagine there actually would have been more checking of the authority.

              But yeah, making court a place where your enemies know you’ll be there and they’re free to come and grab you is a terrible precedent anyway. If you can’t expect due process even in the courts, what does the rule of law even mean anymore?

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      Pretty sure some people showed up at San Francisco City Hall claiming to be with DOGE and demanding they be given access to personal files.

      The staff refused and when they finally called the police the men claiming to be with DOGE fled the scene.

      It was just some insane MAGA duds pretending to be with DOGE.

      Especially with ICE going into schools and other previous safe zones now, think about how easy it would be for people to take advantage of these situations.

      If a person is already willing to kidnap someone, do you really think they wouldn’t easily be willing to disguise their own identity, command authority and prey on people’s fears of retaliation for not complying?