Trump officials accused of false imprisonment and ‘unconstitutional racial profiling’ over incident in LA

Trump officials accused of false imprisonment and ‘unconstitutional racial profiling’ over incident in LA

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was detained at gunpoint by federal immigration agents is seeking $1m in damages and accusing the Trump administration of false imprisonment and “unconstitutional racial profiling”.

The teenager, a US citizen with disabilities, was in a vehicle with his mother outside Arleta high school in Los Angeles on 11 August when masked immigration agents surrounded them and pulled them from the vehicle. They said the boy was a suspect in a crime, and handcuffed him for several minutes until they realized they had the wrong person, the Los Angeles Times reported.

His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”.

“What’s exciting about getting guns pointed at you?” she said.

  • brunchyvirus@fedia.io
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    24 hours ago

    I agree with everything you said, I remember seeing this graph that shows how likely House Democrats and Republicans where likely to vote with their party between 1949 -2011, which already showed a pretty bleak outlook, here’s the full paper.

    The second thing that I noticed about ten years ago maybe before that was the sudden increase in misinformation on Facebook and YouTube that people will believe as truth, and since they see it engages you they will constantly bombard them with more and of it. I remember as a kid adults saying don’t believe everything you read, and if so and so would jump off a bridge would you? A lot of them should have taken there own advice.

    It’s not just older generations, younger ones are obviously affected by it but in different ways cyber bullying, that weird Andrew Tate following and other.

    I heard someone explain like this, let’s say a person walks up to on the street and asks you to buy something, obviously it’s easy to say no and walk away. Now instead of a person imagine it’s a machine with 10 billion times more intelligent than all of humanity combined is constantly trying to get you to click a link.