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US citizen arrested during ICE raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Authorities have not told lawyers what charges Velez faces, but an official with the Department of Homeland Security told media that she was arrested for assaulting an Ice officer.<<

Self defense against an illegal arrest - hopefully she gets a MASSIVE settlement out of this to try and teach this Republican administration a lesson.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The only ones I've seen saying that so far that any violence came from her is DHS, and last I heard they only said it to the news, not a judge. There's an argument if it even happened, that it was self defense, but we've seen them lie to the media and back out at court so many times, it may not even come to it.

Edit:just went looking. She's been released. They charged her with "obstructiing arrest". They claim she got in front and held her hand out to block agents from wrestling a man, and it hit one of them. I don't find it very believable. She decided to be a hero the second she got out of a car on the way to work. Nothing's really believable nowadays. Reality as people see it has been bent to the limit.