The 23-year-old was pulled out of the van, placed in handcuffs, and detained for about 25 minutes while the agent searched him. When the agents finally found his ID confirming his citizenship, the agents let him go — without offering any explanation or apology.
A 23-year-old electrician from Brentwood is speaking out after a disturbing encounter with federal immigration agents left him handcuffed and shaken, despite being a U.S. citizen.
Elzon Lemus says he was on the job, driving in a work van with his co-worker in Westbury when they were pulled over by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The incident was recorded on Lemus’ phone.
“What’s up, guys? Can I see your ID, please?” an agent asks in the video.
When Lemus questions why they’re being stopped, the agent replies vaguely, “Cause you look like someone I’m looking for. Can I see your ID?”
Lemus continues, “Who are you looking for exactly? Because it’s definitely not me.”
The agent then warns him, “This is going to go one of two ways here. I need to see your ID — if you’re not the guy I’m looking for, you’re not the guy I’m looking for. But we need your ID.”
When Lemus continues to question why he’s being stopped the agent escalates and says “If we don’t get your ID we are going to need to figure out another way to ID you and that may not work out well for you.”
Isn’t illegally detaining folks a violation of their civil rights/freedoms? Pretty sure that one that isn’t protected by qualified immunity… fucking scum
Take down individual names any time you have them. They are deciding to do those things individually, and they will answer individually to the citizens, when some bro stairs save america by being tripped upon by an ailing man, and it all starts crumbling and imploding.
The Gestapo strike again.
Papers please.
Assholes
Guilty until proven innocent
“Papers, please”
“Mom, I don’t wanna go to school today”
“Stop being lazy”
“No mom, I don’t want to get arrested by ICE”
Since the republicans passed laws allowing teachers to be armed in schools it would be such sweet karmatic justice if one them melts an ICE agent.
working as designed
trump is looking for anyone to deport, hes trying to surpass obama dn bidens numbers.
Time to exercise the 2nd Ammendment
Then he’d just be dead.
Meh, I you could survive. ICE is like the most coward desk jockey law enforcement who only shoots a gun every 5 years to stay qualified. Before Homeland Security and ICE was formed, immigration officials were unarmed like IRS agents and social workers.
He’d probably have to go to trial but people have been acquitted of shooting cops and I think he’d have a good chance.
Yes but he looks foreign which I think is enough these days
/S maybe.
What does “look foreign” even mean in a place like the US? I think you mean he didn’t look white enough.
When they say that, you say, “Oh, you must be looking for the guy with the big dick. You found me.”
Since when can ICE make traffic stops?
Since people started obeying them. If it’s not a cop, you don’t have to stop.
The Yankee Gestapo have been allowed to do what they want by The Fatboy Tangerine …and by the us population.
These dumbass nicknames trivialize a very serious subject. What possible reason could you have to make a joke out of this?
Likely won’t be a popular opinion, but I for one agree. This is a serious issue.
I wouldn’t mind as much if they were at least clever but they’re always second grade playground level dumb. It makes all of us look like idiots.
Laws are just agreements not to do stuff
Anyone can do anything. There are only consequences after the fact and only if the state agrees there should be.
Since they are Trump’s secret police.
It’s a common theory that many of thr 1/6 rioters are now ICE members. So here is a list of the pardoned fucks. https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-january-6-prisoners-released-2018097
And fuck Jon Schaffer in particular.
He should have been a long Island ICE tea
ICE has been directly and illegally ordered to violate the fourth amendment and are doing it every day.
