Trump officials accused of false imprisonment and ‘unconstitutional racial profiling’ over incident in LA

Trump officials accused of false imprisonment and ‘unconstitutional racial profiling’ over incident in LA

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was detained at gunpoint by federal immigration agents is seeking $1m in damages and accusing the Trump administration of false imprisonment and “unconstitutional racial profiling”.

The teenager, a US citizen with disabilities, was in a vehicle with his mother outside Arleta high school in Los Angeles on 11 August when masked immigration agents surrounded them and pulled them from the vehicle. They said the boy was a suspect in a crime, and handcuffed him for several minutes until they realized they had the wrong person, the Los Angeles Times reported.

His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”.

“What’s exciting about getting guns pointed at you?” she said.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    an older white man I know I ran into (at the grocery) said something like “if I have to pay a black man reparations, I should be able to bring him home and beat his ass first.”

    Wow that’s absolutely disgusting, if I observed that I would definitely say so to him in no uncertain terms. But I live in a low crime country with few crazies, and I’m a big white guy, so generally I have nothing to fear.
    But maybe part of the problem, is that intolerance has been tolerated way to much in USA. Making it look like the crazies have more power than they actually have.

    white racists with money have taken over USA politics

    Indeed they have, but not without a lot of help from for instance moronic Latinos, that thought job security under Trump would be better, and are often religious nut cases, that believe Trump is the 2nd coming of Christ.

    It’s exhausting to deal with adults who have the reasoning of a 5 year old fueled by their hatred.

    Best wishes, nothing much I can say, it does not look good. 😟