On the morning of 2 May, teenager Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was driving to his landscaping job in North Palm Beach with his mother and two male friends when they were pulled over by the Florida highway patrol.
In one swift moment, a traffic stop turned into a violent arrest.
A highway patrol officer asked everyone in the van to identify themselves, then called for backup. Officers with US border patrol arrived on the scene.
Video footage of the incident captured by Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old US citizen, appears to show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men*, two of whom are undocumented. They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”
Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”
This quote stood out to me. It seems like ICE agents are preparing themselves psychologically to begin killing people.
Way ahead of them, and I fucking hate it.
There is a gun within reach anywhere I sit. Bed? AR-15. Desk? 12g pump. Shitter? .380 auto loader. Yard? I carry. Public? I carry.
Am I a paranoid gun nut? No. I have a legal, brown wife who might not get her 10-year visa next year. I got a dog in this fight.
170b ICE budget for a million deports, so it should be 170k each, now these low level nazi doing the actual dirty work only get 30k for three, so 1/17 of total. Wondering where does the rest go. So much corruption there.
The immigration agent was correct. You have no rights unless you demand them and defend them for everyone. If you’re at home feeling like this doesn’t affect you, I’ll remind you that it’s not a long poem.
White, suburban guys didn’t get the memo that the largest gun purchasing demographic, women/LGBT/minorities, got. You might have to fight, you might have to die. Grow a fucking pair and get in the game.
I know, easier for an old white guy like me to say, but I got a dog in this fight, a legal brown wife. You’re going to die soon enough, go out with your boots on.
