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  • 1659447091 17 hours ago
    > ... 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.”

    $30,000 bonus? There should be an equal fine for each US citizen rounded up in the gamified dragnet

    It shouldn't surprise, but it does, at how little people are willing to sell themselves, their humanity and integrity out for.

    "for it is you who know yourself, how much you are worth to yourself, and at what price you sell yourself; for men sell themselves at various prices." -https://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.1.one.html#105

    • Nasrudith 16 hours ago
      Reminds me of the calculations I saw about what the equivalent value of thirty pieces of silver would be. Interestingly one figure would be four months of skilled labor, and based upon that and an assumption of $75K came out to be $25K.
  • foldr 9 hours ago
    > Laynez-Ambrosio was charged with obstruction without violence and sentenced to 10 hours of community service and a four-hour anger management course.

    You have to admire the sheer gall of this. Perhaps the masked thugs kidnapping US citizens would have more to gain from anger management training than this innocent teenager.

  • nobodyandproud 4 hours ago
    This is why I support the Guardian (imperfect or not) and other journals.

    Fine. Arrest and deport illegal immigrants.

    But this gestapo and these perverse financial incentives all have to go.

  • greenavocado 17 hours ago
    $30,000 bonus?!
  • djfivyvusn 17 hours ago
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    • 1659447091 17 hours ago
      Agreed, represent what you claim without emotional emphasization or hand waving away the full situation involving a US citizen going to his job with his mother and 2 friends.

      > 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 [...]

    • mindslight 17 hours ago
      "Something it's not" ? This seems to be straightforward unprovoked assault and batteries by government employees acting under the color of law. If the rule of law means anything, the perps should at the very least be missing their annual pay as restitution to the victims. But of course we know that the wanton cruelty is the only point - panem et circenses. The goal certainly isn't any sort of effective policy.
    • intermerda 16 hours ago
      > "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.”"

      You are a fascist.

      • commiepatrol 15 hours ago
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      • djfivyvusn 2 hours ago
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        • notsound 2 hours ago
          If you thought covid fascism was bad why wouldn't you care about this? Was covid fascism so tolerable you'll let the government do more fascism?
    • octokatt 17 hours ago
      Interesting. What do you think he was doing?