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douglas9

(5,490 posts)
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 12:37 PM Saturday

ICE Agents Arrest Man on Christmas Eve--and Then Steal His Groceries

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers in Yakima, Washington, spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his already purchased groceries for themselves.

Four ICE officers in masks and tactical gear can be seen in a video surrounding a man with a car full of food while he loads it into his car. A woman watching the arrest asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of the man’s wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused.

“No, guess he should’ve complied,” an agent said.

The agents then start to divvy up the man’s groceries, as the bystander tells them they had previously detained and deported her husband. “I fucking hate these motherfuckers,” the woman filming says as they drive off—presumably to the nearby Yakima ICE Detention Center.

https://newrepublic.com/post/204750/ice-agents-detain-man-christmas-eve-steal-groceries

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ICE Agents Arrest Man on Christmas Eve--and Then Steal His Groceries (Original Post) douglas9 Saturday OP
Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #1
I wish I was surprised by this PatSeg Saturday #17
My Goodness. Those ICE Officers are such a class act! chouchou Saturday #2
They seem to be... 2naSalit Saturday #4
Amen. Even Hitler at his worse, would give them a box of medals. chouchou Saturday #7
Hire violent criminals, pay them bounties for any/all arrests, expect violenc and crimes Attilatheblond Saturday #3
Ding ding malaise Saturday #5
Wow; I hadn't heard that. snot Saturday #9
No background checks on people, they just hired warm bodies willing to be bullies and violate rights. Attilatheblond Saturday #12
That sounds like armed robbery struggle4progress Saturday #6
Welcome to AmerICE. twodogsbarking Saturday #8
When Dems retake office, we need to hold them accountable IronLionZion Saturday #10
ICE thugs are criminal trash. dalton99a Saturday #11
These scumbags belong in the slammer. 😡 Dave Bowman Saturday #13
They can steal the groceries because they know there's no way to identify them. Thugs. Vinca Saturday #14
How long liberalgunwilltravel Saturday #15
They could easily be commen criminals pretending to be ICE. BradBo Saturday #16

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,549 posts)
1. Who is surprised by this?
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 12:58 PM
Saturday

ICE Agents Arrest Man on Christmas Eve—and Then Steal His Groceries
"A woman watching the arrest asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of the man’s wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused"
JFC...& for the 2nd time today:
newrepublic.com/post/204750/...

AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 (@callyson.bsky.social) 2025-12-26T23:57:40.837Z

PatSeg

(52,005 posts)
17. I wish I was surprised by this
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 03:22 PM
Saturday

Nothing this administration does surprises me anymore. I had no idea how many monsters live among us however.

2naSalit

(99,819 posts)
4. They seem to be...
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 01:18 PM
Saturday

More like the ruzzian barbarians in Ukraine every day. I expect they will eventually just shoot everyone around them and take the victims wallets and whatever they have on them and then leave them to bleed to death because that's who these fuckers are.

Attilatheblond

(8,208 posts)
3. Hire violent criminals, pay them bounties for any/all arrests, expect violenc and crimes
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 01:06 PM
Saturday

Trump promotes, enables, pays criminal gangs to act against people in this country.

Impeach the MF and fire the lot of his gangs/henchmen.

snot

(11,456 posts)
9. Wow; I hadn't heard that.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 02:29 PM
Saturday

Do you have a source for it, or is it inferred from ICE agents' behavior?

Attilatheblond

(8,208 posts)
12. No background checks on people, they just hired warm bodies willing to be bullies and violate rights.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 02:55 PM
Saturday

And they did it right after J6ers got outta jail via Trump. Their antics are the same, bully boy mob violence Capitol Police endured, and it has been reported there are J6ers in ICE. CBP employees have been in service longer, and some are jerks, but they are vetted, trained, supervised. ICE is a band of violent thugs with no accountability.

I don't bookmark every article I read and anybody with internet can do some searches for background.

struggle4progress

(125,327 posts)
6. That sounds like armed robbery
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 01:53 PM
Saturday

RCW 9A.56.200
Robbery in the first degree.
(1) A person is guilty of robbery in the first degree if:
(a) In the commission of a robbery or of immediate flight therefrom, he or she:
(i) Is armed with a deadly weapon; or
(ii) Displays what appears to be a firearm or other deadly weapon; or
(iii) Inflicts bodily injury; ...
(2) Robbery in the first degree is a class A felony.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9A.56.200

IronLionZion

(50,770 posts)
10. When Dems retake office, we need to hold them accountable
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 02:32 PM
Saturday

ICE needs plenty of reforms and congressional oversight.

We don't hear much about Proud Boys these days. Or similar groups. Or Jan 6 people released from prison. I have a feeling plenty of fired dirty cops found jobs with ICE.

Vinca

(53,274 posts)
14. They can steal the groceries because they know there's no way to identify them. Thugs.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 02:59 PM
Saturday

ICE needs to be completely disbanded at this point. You can't trust any of them.

liberalgunwilltravel

(1,064 posts)
15. How long
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 03:09 PM
Saturday

Before people have had enough and start punching these assholes’ tickets? I know that’s what the puke Miller wants so he can declare martial law, but then they just might find out they aren’t as insulated and protected as they seem to think they are.

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