Rafie Ollah Shouhed, 79, suffered multiple broken ribs, elbow injuries and a traumatic brain injury during the Sept. 9 incident, according to the federal tort claim filed by his attorneys.
According to his claim, when Shouhed attempted to show agents proof of his employees’ work authorization, agents “cursed at him” and “violently body-slammed him onto the pavement.” Three agents then allegedly pinned him down, with one placing a knee on his neck, the claim stated.
“You don’t f— with ICE. We are here,” agents responded, according to the claim.
Tax payer’s money 💸
He won’t win. You almost never win against the feds. The courts repeatedly ruled they’re immune from almost any civil shot. Worth a try though.
I hate the idea that ICE and LEO can commit these types of abuses and then the cost of lawsuits is borne by taxpayers broadly. Seems like it would be more impactful if liability was on the officer (through professional insurance) and the agencies that employee them.
That’s why ICE agents cover the faces. you can’t really know if they are even real agents
There will be no liability. The feds are almost always exempt from it.
I believe it would be best if it is split. $100,000 per incident by the U.S. government, $1,000,000 by the agents involved. Bankruptcy not being able to get rid of it. That’s before there should be criminal implications.
No matter how much hate ICE is getting, it is not enough
I mean we’re seeing these videos everyday. A no kings protest 2 weeks from now isn’t going to stop this. sternly worded letters won’t stop this. there is one force we know if which can stop this.
everyday
everyday: typical, mundane
every day: daily
It’s the difference between yelling “Hi Jack!” at the airport … and something else.
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I mean it’s a bit ridiculous to suggest that there are no intermediate states between where things are now and total war.
No major historical event in history has followed the trajectory you suggest; there are always intermediate states, evolutions, phases, degrees.
Maybe you just need to be a bit more imaginative, if you will.
Since ice is made up of molon labe guys, they should be fully supportive.
The molon lave guys seem to ignore the part where the Spartans did, in fact, find out
I was thinking about something similar.
I mean you figure it’s a couple hundred k to get one gestapo agent onto the streets. it doesn’t take much to see that the economics require a high level of utilization. It’s not like one gestapo can just go out there and kidnap people. they need several to kidnap one person.
Not yet! It will only be a bad catalyst. That’s what they WANT right now so I plead… Hold!
Please no, if everyone stops believing in peaceful change the US is truly f*cked
Alternatively, if the US keeps pretending that peaceful challenge is or has been effective in stopping these goons, more people end up getting disappeared into concentration camps.
Convenient assumptions that allow you to wash your hands of responsibility do not for a very historical precedent make. Civil protest requires an tacit and consensual agreement to the rule of law and to the idea that ‘courts’ and ‘rule of law’ exist mean something extrinsic to the individual: these clowns don’t believe that and are using the fact that you do against you.
This isn’t a fucking star wars movie, this is real fucking life. Every person kidnapped of the streets is a life ruined and family destroyed. If your argument is that we can only use peaceful means but peaceful means arent effective, you are responsible for the outcomes if you remove alternative approaches from the table.
The right to resist, and yes, violently when necessary, against tyranny is an in-alienable human right.
But violence is not an easy solution that doesn’t come with massive casualties of its own. A civil war would cause many deaths on both sides and should be the last resort and prevented if at all possible. I think there is still a possibility to undo the harm in a peaceful way but I have to admit those chances are decreasing.
But violence is not an easy solution
The right is already using widespread violence on several levels. To say ICE isn’t violence is simply wrong, to say the numerous persecutions of people like judges, prosecutors and James Comey because Trump perceive them as opponents, to claim that isn’t violence is also simply wrong. Attacks on politicians in their homes even killing family members is also clearly extreme violence. To arrest a judge for upholding the law in her own courtroom, is exactly the kind of violence that will pave the way for fill fledged fascist system in USA. To arrest a school administrator for protecting his pupils against unlawful practices by ICE is the same.
The failure to stop ICE among other things is leading USA directly to fascism. Why should the pain be on one side only?So to say the left should refrain from even talking about violence at this point is a bit steep IMO.
It’s more likely the left is like democrats in general, too little too late, as it is USA is steadily heading for a dictatorship.Also to talk about resistance as if it means civil war is a slippery slope argument.
I didn’t say ICE doesn’t use violence
For fucks sake, you said it’s wrong to use violence to stop ICE, meaning people should just accept the other side is using violence, but refrain from it themselves.
That’s decidedly moronic, and how do you imagine you can defend that position from a moral standpoint?You wrote:
if everyone stops believing in peaceful change the US is truly f*cked
If you think the left must remain peaceful, while the right is using widespread violence and wildly abusing any official power, there is only one way this ends, and that is with the right winning without a fight.
I don’t think fighting ICE is going to get rid of the problem before causing a civil war. And I also think that civil war is still preventable through peaceful means.
You are being naive and ahistorical. You want to support your argument? provide evidence. Because otherwise you are engaging in a dangerous fantasy, one that millions of others are also revelling in, while people are being violently kidnapped off the streets.
Consider that you may have been propagandized to believe that only “bad people” use violence. Look at every single kids movie, practically ever. It’s always the same tropes thatgoos guys can’t use the tools of their enemies, that good guys can never use violence, or if so can never engage in lethality.
The onus is on you to provide evidence that your suppositions around protest will be effective.
History shows a diametrically opposed view. History says that if you want to stop things like what are happening now, you need to resist early, fully, and by any means necessary. That in an illiberal system, protests will be ignored. And at by allowing things to become worse and further entrenched, a practical civil resistance becomes impossible when people keep thinking the institutions will save them.
You are being naive and ahistorical. You want to support your argument? provide evidence.
How is that reasonable when you haven’t done so to support your own claims and position?
Anyway, I can come up with an example. The Nazi’s used violence of jews and political enemies (real and fake) to increase their grip on Germany. They used it to enrage their supporters and poison the public opinion against their opponents. The fire of the Reichstag and Kristallnacht come to mind.
How is that reasonable when you haven’t done so to support your own claims and position?
I mean I shouldn’t need to cite it. Its literally history, and if you don’t know these things, maybe you shouldn’t be in this conversation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_resistance_to_Nazism
And that’s just one among hundreds or even thousands of other examples. Its practically all of history that agrees with what I’m suggesting: Effective resistance which begin early and use all tools at their disposal are more effective than ones which begin late and or arbitrarily hamstring the approaches they are willing to engage with. The very act of what you are doing now, this conversation we’re having, a version of this played out among the Weimar political parties.
The civil resistance took too long to take the threat of Nazism seriously and allowed themselves their opponents to dictate the terms of engagement until it was too late to be effective. Nazism in Germany could have been stopped, but too many liberals either didn’t take the threat seriously, or had the mistaken believe that the institutions of the republic would save them.
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Anyway, I can come up with an example. The Nazi’s used violence of jews and political enemies (real and fake) to increase their grip on Germany. They used it to enrage their supporters and poison the public opinion against their opponents. The fire of the Reichstag and Kristallnacht come to mind.
That doesn’t support your argument. If anything it undermines it. By not resisting earlier, and more fully and more directly, Jews and Communists became victims of the Nazis. If you wait too long to resist, the door closes. If you allow your opponents to become entrenched, you make civilian resistance untenable.
I mean I shouldn’t need to cite it. Its literally history, and if you don’t know these things, maybe you shouldn’t be in this conversation
Come now, that’s a double standard. My examples are also litterally history.
You link a generic wikipedia article. That’s fine, but could you be a bit more specific? How does it support your position?
That doesn’t support your argument. If anything it undermines it. By not resisting earlier, and more fully and more directly, Jews and Communists became victims of the Nazis.
I think it does support my argument. Here you make an argument to resist early, which I agree with. Not to resist violently.
The fire of the Reichstag was blamed on a communist and the Nazi’s used it to their advantage. They used an emergency law to effectively get rid of the democracy.
The murder of Ernst vom Rath was used to vilify jews and stage the Kristallnacht.
These were acts of violence that the Nazi’s used to their advantage. Violence can backfire like that. Whether it was really their opponents doesn’t matter, what matters is that they can blame them. And if it really is their opponents, great. Then it’s easy to blame them.
And to clarify, I do think that a point can be reached that violence does become justified and the only option left. I just don’t think the US has reached that point quite yet.
If the right thinks the left is not willing to fight for democracy USA is even more fucked.
If only the left is fighting for democracy we are well and truly fucked.
Reagan is left wing by today’s standards, so it’s only meant as left as in left of republicans today.
By left in this context, I mean left in the American binary 2 party system that are of near equal size, so by definition, in USA Republicans are the right, and Democrats are the left.And yes since Republicans have been nearly taken over completely by MAGA, nobody should expect much help from Republicans. They are almost all accomplices.
And since the 2 sides were very close in the presidential election, the 2 sides are pretty much equal in size.
Some may have moved to the side of democracy, but it’s essential that those that want to keep democracy begin to fight for it, because there are twice as many on the side of fascism than are necessary if the rest remain passive.
That is old Hitler teaching, and Trump is VERY aware of that.
Peaceful change works in a lot of places.
When you’re working with an enemy that considers you subhuman and wants to kill you there is no peace; only being abused and murdered.
If a fascist or an oligarch doesn’t think it’s gonna get shot at, it’ll do whatever it wants to you.
So do you believe this 79 year old used violence and this was the result? My guess was he tried to be peaceful and naive, like you, and guess what? ICE laughed because they got an easy target.
You are also in these comments saying people can’t provide an example of violence being used to stop fascism. Guess whatever passed for a school where you’re from didn’t teach you about allied forces spending years successfully beating back fascism. To be fair it was a very little known movement called World War Two. People like you not being taught what that sacrifice meant are the reason we are here.
Violence is a tool. It is neither good or bad. Looking at one group using violence to terrorize and harm innocents, and another group using it against THOSE people to stop it, and saying they’re both equally bad is so incredibly absurd that it is obvious you are not arguing in good faith and instead siding with the first group but pretending to be neutral.
So do you believe this 79 year old used violence and this was the result?
No.
You are also in these comments saying people can’t provide an example of violence being used to stop fascism.
Not at all. Violence can stop fascism. The allies defeating Nazi Germany proved that. But that is a really dark scenario that makes things go south before they become better. That took a war, and all I’m saying is that should be prevented when possible. It’s the last resort. I also said violence can backfire, which I truly believe.
Edit: to support that last claim I mentioned the fire of the reichstag and the prelude to the kristallnacht
This is already a dark scenario and things are getting worse without getting better. We hit that magical 3.5% protest number a few months ago and here we are. The dictator just announced more troop deployments, stating that Portland, a major metro area filled woth normal people doing nothing wrong, is an active warzone taken over by terrorists and that the military can use full force to murder civilians in an attempt genocide the “others” in society.
You are refusing to grasp the reality of the situation. When enough people do what you are doing, it normalizes fascism.
Everyone wishes violence doesn’t exist. No one wants to live through fascism or face the possibility of dying early in war. But refusing to prepare for those things when they are at your doorstep, and encouraging others to do the same, is dangerous and harmful.
When enough people do what you are doing, it normalizes fascism.
I don’t think opposing it with everything you have but violence normalizes it.
But refusing to prepare for those things when they are at your doorstep, and encouraging others to do the same, is dangerous and harmful.
I’m not even against preparing for violence. Just not yet for engaging in it and starting civil war.
Because of people like you ripping the reins back and saying people ready to stop this madness are wrong, we do not have the unity needed to start effective resistance conflict. We can’t fight how we need to, because too many of you exist who are ready to throw us to the wolves if we try.
You are deluding yourself thinking that fascists understand anything but violence, that they will have empathy or pity for you if you act helpless enough for long enough. Meanwhile, people like the man in this article have real, tangible suffering that is all too easy for you to ignore, because you have never experienced it yourself
Great. While we peacefully beg for our humanity, they can continue to violently brutalize and oppress us! This surely will work.
if everyone stops believing in peaceful change, the only thing that will be fucked is shareholder profits ;)
Hey look at all the argument in this thread… between leftists!
I wonder if they planned that? 🤔Ice came to chicago to learn how to put a government in debt from lawsuits due to law enforcement behavior.
Claims? There’s a video.
Legalese
Cowardly journalism
Best I can do is the rest of your life in an El Salvadoran concentration camp.
I heard there aren’t any guns in Chicago
