I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
By: Home of the Brave
Is this what patriotic citizens approve of nowadays? This is totally Trump's fault. He is turning our nation into an authoritarian state.
This is just one example, but it shows how out of control the Trump ICE initiative is. Trump is a disaster.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
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My name is uh George Rees [Retes]. Um, I was born and raised here in Ventura, California.
That day, July 10th, uh, I headed to work like normal, just any normal day, and there’s just a roadblock of ICE agents lined up across the road. And at just that point, I’m just like, I don’t want this to escalate.
All these agents start walking towards me in a line, and they just surround my vehicle. Um, agents on the driver’s side, passenger side, agents in front of my car, behind my car, and they’re just all yelling at me to do different things. Agents on the side are pulling my door handles, telling me to get out, trying to open my doors, banging on the windows to, like, break the glass, telling me to get out. The agents in the front are telling me to reverse. Um, telling me to pull over to the side. Um, so they’re all contradicting each other.
Uh, they throw tear gas to disperse the crowd. My car engulfed in tear gas. Um, it’s filling up my car with tear gas. So I’m in there just coughing, trying to catch my breath. Uh, just trying to hold out as long as possible.
They surround my car again. And, uh, again, they started giving me contradictory orders, and they shattered my driver-side window. Eventually, like, like, as soon as, like, my window shattered, another agent stuck his arm through and pepper-sprayed me, uh, in the face.
They dragged me out of the car, threw me on the ground. Um, and just the whole time I’m just going with it. Not trying to fight, not trying to resist, just letting them, letting them do this.
Um, eventually they’re just kneeling on my neck and my back, zip tying my hands, and once they finish zip tying my hands behind my back, they, they get off me, they pick me up, and they drive me to, uh, the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown LA.
They strip search us, and they give us, like, a, like, jumpsuits. And I asked them to shower because I’m covered in pepper spray and tear gas and my skin’s burning. Um, they say that I’ll pass and, like, I’ll get over it.
I asked for a phone call. They ignored that. I asked to, like, when would I be able to speak to a lawyer. They never gave me an answer. They just ignored it. Never told me what I was charged for.
Uh, they searched me. They searched me and they threw us, gave us this jumpsuit, took our pictures, our fingerprints again, our mug shot, and then they put me in a cell.
My skin’s burning. Uh, my hands are burning. My eyes and face are burning. My skin, um, and I’m just trying to, I’m just, just trying to survive this, like, this extreme, like, heat and just what I’m going through and just lost and, like, why I’m even here.
And, uh, they put me on suicide watch. Um, it’s this, like, yellow concrete room with a concrete block and the mattress on top. They leave the lights on 24/7. And I’m in there naked with, like, a hospital gown, and it’s a glass door. There’s a guard out there 24/7 just watching me.
And an officer comes up and just, just, like, I’m off suicide watch and I’m getting released, and they walk, he walks me downstairs. He makes me sign for my paperwork, gives me back my clothes.
“You’re free to go. All the charges on you were dropped. You’re good to go.”
Um, and that, that was it. And that was the only explanation I got. I asked, so I was locked up and just missed my daughter’s birthday for no, for no reason. And they didn’t, they couldn’t give me an answer. They just stayed silent, and that was it. Just, you’re free to go.
No one deserves to be treated like this. Everyone deserves, um, their civil rights. Everyone deserves basic, basic human rights, basic human decency.
What I want out of this is accountability, uh, from the government themselves, uh, to take responsibility for what they did, like, to me, uh, for an apology for me.
Um, as in the bigger picture, it’s to get accountability for everyone else that doesn’t get the chance to speak up. It’s just not, like, right. Like, it’s bigger than just me.
And it’s all our responsibility to share and speak up about all our rights, because one voice isn’t loud enough. My voice alone isn’t loud enough. It doesn’t affect one person or one group. It’s all our responsibility to speak up about the wrongdoings and rights being stripped away basically in front of us. And it’s our responsibility to make sure that they’re not allowed to do
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Yet another example of why it is so dangerous to let a deranged buffoon secure the powers of the US presidency.
Do we really need any more reasons?
Rational, responsible patriots almost certainly do not need any more reasons.
MAGAites don't care if a bunch of eggs get broken while they're trying to make their racist omelet.
Egg Whites, American White cheese,
Milk_(no strawberry or chocolate), Cream,
Creamy Whipped White Butter
WHite Immature Baby Bella White Button East Wing Mushedrooms like A White Power House of paiins with fresh White Powder forecasted
Don't forget a Supersized order of 'Freedom Fries'...
there's also a number of american citizens and children that were illegally held and deported. this vet isn't the only one.
They have been doing this same dumb shit since Trump took over. Several US citizens and have been detained by ICE illegally. Congress is complicit in their inaction.
A few weeks ago in Minneapolis ICE arrested a US citizen because he was of Somali descent. It took the agents an hour to find their way to the detention facility because they were lost, they couldn't get the fingerprint or facial scanners to work and wouldn't listen to kid repeated telling them he had his ID information in his phone.
there's still a few hundred kids here still separated from their now unknown parents from POS/POTUS's last term ...
I hope he successfully sues for millions.
Will not hurt Trump.
Unconscionable. I don't understand how anybody can defend this.
it is. they obviously can't here ...
... which explains my total disdain and contempt towards gullible and ignorant maga-vets that still support trump now.
I know, right? It's like their oath didn't mean a damn thing
It looks like they can't judging by the non-comments here
Retes is not lily-White. Therefore he is an enemy of the MAGA state.
It's perfectly logical.
he obviously wasn't "one of the good ones" ...
They're pepper spraying drivers with children in their cars.
I hope somebody is keeping a running total on all the lawsuits and settlements that will be paid out by this criminal administration for violating the rights of those they interact with negatively, doing the gov't jobs that required an oath affirming that they would do the opposite.
Nothing will come of them. That's why they wear masks. So they can detain US veterans and pepper spray infants without being held accountable.
There has to be a record of them, tho. Round them up like they did after Germany lost the war and then sort them out
nobody that took a gov't job during the trump administration is safe after 2029 ...
[✘] Have a nice day.
So, you're good with US veterans who are citizens being detained, humiliated, and having their civil rights violated because they look brown?
Aren't many people of Native American heritage a bit dark-complected?
they can't defend the topic or the actions of their maga savior ...
Good questions...
hypocrisy at its finest
with a pile of maga and service related merch on the passenger seat whenever he travels ...
You would/will never know.
Wow - such great questions.
I am for ANYONE who is an ILLEGAL ALIEN in the U.S. being detained, humiliated, and having their imaginary civil rights being violated regardless of their color - RED, brown, green, black, orange, white, male, female.
Yeah - many people who are NATIVE AMERICAN are a "bit" dark-complected, light complected, mellow complected, brown complected, green complected, black complected, orange complected - and even (GASP) white complected. Unfortunately, the color complexion is a result of "forced" neighborhoods - but, whatcha gonna do, eh?
U.S. veterans ARE NOT all legal U.S. citizens (you should try Civics 101) - maybe the whiner in the thread is - maybe he isn't. But, if you are an ILLEGAL ALIEN you are and will be subjected to deportation, questioning, possible incarceration - so - be prepared. Better yet, self-deport.
If some of this person's story is partially true, he got caught between a rock and a hard place.
It is a good story though.
You should try reading the article.
This veteran is a citizen. He was born in the US.
And he was attacked by his country.
Some of us are bothered by that.
It's strange that you aren't.
Trump campaigned on ridding us of illegals who are murderers, rapists, etc.
Instead he is going after anyone illegal, regardless of circumstances. He does not care how unfair or inhumane the results.
And his force is so out of control, they continue to pick up legals ... even veterans.
So you actually approve of this.
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Just put the words you wanna hear out there - but realize those words ain't mine.
I did read the article - a truly BS article - quite obviously I don't believe a damn word of it.
Ahhhh - some would call that a compliment if they considered . . . . . .
Why? (Other than the fact that it shows more problems with the Trump administration.)
So, now that you've been called out for approving of the kidnapping and torture of a fellow soldier, along with damage to his property (how's that for comradery), your defense is "Well, I don't believe it happened, because...reasons."
what do you expect from someone that defends the very party that attempted to eradicate NA's thru genocide.
27 comments and you are the only one using the word.
Great response.
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Expected nothing less - thanks for keeping in character.
I realize that math is a difficult operation for many, but - just think for a second.
The U.S. population is a tad over 340.1 million people. California, the land of Fruits and Nuts, has a population of just over 39.1 million people which equals 'bout 11.5% total.
"Home of the Brave" is a pure Dem/Lib "We hate Repubs" organization that "probably" ain't even close in their rendition of what happened - most of which is plain BS - 'specially in Ventura.
But, you believe it - so, go with it.
This young man is a United States citizen. He was born in the United States. How do you justify what happened to him?
Well, firstly, I don't believe the BS that is supposed to be his transcript.
Secondly, I don't/won't believe any of the BS that Home of the Brave prints.
But, some of ya'll are pretty gullible - so have at it.
I saw interviews with him on television recently. He was very well-spoken, totally credible and appeared to be completely honest. An upstanding American veteran, and a regular guy. Of course, many people, magas in particular, are grossly uninformed. That's an advantage for a wannabe dictator like Trump.
Oh but Counselor, you know what they will say...
You do not even believe that is the transcript??
Then surely you do not believe a word Trump says.
Yeah. "Biden..."
You have the logic backwards, from a MAGA point of view.
MAGA logic stipulates that if someone is stoped by ICE, they MUST be guilty.
Therefore, the stop is justified.
That should let you deny reality. Just "don't believe" anything inconvenient.
their misguided and misinformed loyalty to trump first and foremost in america is obvious ...