Grab people first, find out if they're guilty of something later. Oh, and make sure you slam their face into the pavement first. It's the ICE way.
JFC on X:
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents illegally assaulted a 19-year-old U.S. citizen, and then kidnapped him, while admitting on camera they didn’t even know who he was, in Olathe, Kansas.
In the video, an agent is sitting on the teenager’s back as his 14-year-old brother screams that he’s a U.S. citizen, in a Walmart parking lot.
The agent responds:
“Well, we’re going to find that out since whoever drives this [pointing to the truck] isn’t.”
That sentence is the admission.
Because it shows the only thing they knew, at that moment, was something about the registered owner of the truck… not the person they had pinned to the pavement.
Vehicle registration tells you who owns a car. It does NOT tell you who is driving it.
Before law enforcement can detain someone, they need individualized reasonable suspicion tied to that person.
If they had not confirmed the driver matched the registered owner…If they had not observed a crime…If they had no warrant…Then pinning him down, handcuffing him, and loading him into a vehicle raises serious Fourth Amendment concerns.
You don’t get to tackle someone first and figure out who they are later.
You don’t get to use force based on “we’ll find out.”
The issue isn’t just that he’s a U.S. citizen…The issue is whether agents had lawful, INDIVIDUALIZED suspicion to detain him before they used force.
Because when law enforcement starts treating vehicle registration as automatic suspicion for whoever is behind the wheel…That’s collective punishment.
And the Constitution does not allow that.