Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left.

mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve got bad news for you about American courts.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People keep saying, “Why aren’t the courts doing anything about ICE?”

    They are.

    Federal courts have ruled thousands of times that ICE unlawfully detained people. Reuters reported that judges have found ICE illegally jailed individuals more than 4,400 times. There are also multiple active lawsuits alleging excessive force, denial of medical care, abusive detention conditions, and unconstitutional arrests.

    The problem isn’t that the courts aren’t ruling against ICE. The problem is that many of these rulings apply to individual cases or specific jurisdictions rather than creating nationwide policy. Critics argue that ICE has continued many of the same practices despite repeated adverse court decisions.

    Those are two very different issues. One is whether the judiciary is checking ICE’s conduct. The other is whether ICE is consistently changing its behavior in response to those rulings.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So the US justice system is utterly toothless and ineffective and may as well essentially not exist.

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      • justastranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The US Justice System was recently handicapped by banning Federal appeals court rulings from being applied nationwide. As a result, the compromised and corrupt Supreme Court is the one and only court in the entire nation that’s allowed to make a nationwide ruling.

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      • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        As opposed to yours? In the UK? Seriously?

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Has anyone been acquitted for battering an ICE agent because they were unidentified attackers?

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      • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Specifically acquitted, no.

        I couldn’t find a case where someone was acquitted specifically because they fought an unidentified or plainclothes ICE agent. If that had happened, it’d probably be a pretty high-profile precedent.

        What I did find were multiple cases where charges were dropped, people were released, or courts ruled against ICE after video evidence contradicted the agents’ version of events or judges found the arrests or detention were unlawful.

        So it’s not true that the courts are just rubber-stamping everything ICE does. They’re ruling against ICE all the time. The bigger issue is that many of those rulings are case-specific and don’t automatically change ICE’s practices nationwide.

        Those are two very different questions.

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• jdf038@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah some weird hooded guy with questionable facial hair push down an older gentleman.

  Charges ought to be pressed

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  • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That blonde person was also assaulting the man as well.

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    • jdf038@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Good point

      I shouldn’t give them a pass for no awful beard but you are correct

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• mrpollo@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah. In these videos I’ve never seen a women work for ICE in this way.

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m with you buddy.

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