| ▲ | somenameforme 2 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Here [1] is a case where somebody won $150,000 for being detained for 12 hours. The cases aren't especially difficult to search for yourself, so I'm not sure why you're asking me. I can actually respond to everything else you said with an example from ProPublica's story you cited [2], to emphasize that I'm not cherry picking cases to make my point! Scroll down about 25% of the way and you'll get their first inline video example of "Rafie Ollah Shouhed". Now go frame by frame at about the 5.5s mark. You can see the individual in question charge and then thrust his body in front of the responding ICE officer (watch how he leans left into the officer before they are in physical contact) to create a physical altercation. He then attempts to grab the legs of the officer as he jogs away. The same guy then comes out for more, and pushes one ICE officer dealing with somebody else, and then starts grappling with another ICE officer before he's finally tackled and arrested. Media Framing: - Surveillance footage shows Ice agents pushing 79-year-old man to the ground (Guardian) - Car wash owner files $50M claim over injuries sustained during immigration raid (ABC) - 79-year-old US citizen pinned by ICE agents (Fox) - California wash owner tackled, arrested 'impeding' ICE arrest (USA Today) - U.S. citizen files civil rights claim after ICE raid at his car wash (NBC) As this is the first video ProPublica featured, presumably they think that's the most compelling case. In any case it's certainly one of their cases which are supposed to be injust, yet there wasn't even the slightest injustice there whatsoever. And now he wants $50 million lol. I'd also add that ProPublica implies that the government dropping charges in cases is because of lack of merit. In reality it's going to be a balance of gain:loss from such. This is one of those cases where the charges were dropped, but obviously that was not done for lack of merit. [1] - https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/florida-sheriffs... [2] - https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | drewbug01 a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
We clearly aren’t watching the same video. What you see as “thrusting” sure looks to me like he was trying to stop himself from a full-on run - why did he grab a door handle on the wall? Why would you grab and pull like that if you were trying to tackle? And “grabbing his legs”… come on man. That looks a hell of a lot like an old man flailing after getting tackled. And you think he grappled with the officer before getting arrested outside? It looks like precisely the opposite. I’m sorry, I just can’t buy what you’re selling. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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