Marilu Mendez said when ICE vehicles began following her and her husband Monday and then surrounded their car on Tallman Street in New Bedford, she took out her cell phone and started recording.
Her video shows a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforement agent using a large hammer to break the back passenger window of their car.
Marilu said the agents were focused on her husband, Juan, but kept calling him “Antonio”, the name of another man who lives in their building.
Juan Mendez is now being held in a detention facility in Dover, New Hampshire, with a hearing scheduled for May 7.
I consider this a win. They’ll slowly bleed users until all that’s left is the fodder we really don’t want to interact with anyway. Besides, with 4chan’s demise, something tells me the trolls will mass migrate to Reddit.
I really don’t consider it a loss, it really was the last push I needed to fully migrate to lemmy. Only downside now being that I can no long keep stirring the pot on Reddit.
We should get IP banned on every public network we can access!
I hadn’t thought of that. Gosh, can you imagine Reddit getting worse? That’s just spine tingling.
That’s not what usually happens with censorship, though. Censorship can be very effective, which is why it’s so dangerous, and why we have the 1st amendment in the US.