Border Patrol VIOLENTLY INVADES Gas Station and Attacks U.S. Citizens
"My body is really sore,” U.S. citizen Lalo Rios Meza tells Status Coup after BP agents assaulted and abducted him for...recording them abducting another driver. He was detained for 6-7 hours.
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Days after an ICE agent murdered 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good, our videojournalist Jon Farina captured an army of Border Patrol agents invading a Minneapolis gas station (video above) and assaulting and kidnapping drivers—including 22-year-old U.S. citizen Lalo Rios Meza (whose attack can be seen starting at 5:49 in the above video)
We just spoke with Rios Meza, who told us:
“I was recording them talking to the guy in the jeep, they told me to step back, I complied and seconds later an agent rushed at me and swung at my face and got tackled. They took me to the federal building in FT. Snelling… it was very very unorganized, they have no organized procedures for intake, I was there for about 6,7 hours and my body is really sore.”
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Let’s keep waking up the masses.
Chicken SHITS - How many ICE does it take? Disgraceful! Fuck all you republicans out there that voted for this!
Tim Walz needs to not just "Prep the National Guard" - he needs to call them up now. You can't have thousands of militarized Federal Agents in masks roaming your streets and pulling whomever they want out of their cars on whatever pretext they come up with. This is Unconstitutional.
You can't allow this new Federal Force of armed Unconstitutional Police become normalized in this country while they are building detention centers everywhere in the country.
You have to stop this fascism now, or it will only get worse. It's a sad decision to make, but you got to make it now Tim Walz. You have to fight this now, because these fascists ain't going to stop what they're doing unless you fight them tooth and nail NOW. Don't wait around for some miracle to fall out of the sky. Don't let the secret police take over the state of Minnesota. STOP IT NOW. Call up the National Guard Walz. Do it. Don't wait.