> The student, a high school intern at Superior Court, was reportedly detained by the agents outside the Licht Judicial Complex on Benefit Street.
>Superior Court Judge Joseph McBurney insisted the agents had the wrong person. It was not until ICE verified their information and admitted the intern was not their intended target that he was released.
A kid, detained, and released after... due diligence.
>Multiple sources told Target 12 that Rhode Island sheriffs earlier noticed someone taking photos of the intern inside the courthouse and in Superior Court Judge McBurney’s courtroom. When approached, the individual identified himself as an ICE agent and was told to abide by standard courthouse rules, and to stop taking pictures.
>The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.
>Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked.
Holy shit. Straight up random profiling to photo ops at your workplace to violent abduction.
This is a scary time for American citizens. At least the non-citizens typically still have a backup home abroad, whereas the citizens have everything invested domestically. It's still just the first year of the presidency.
> The student, a high school intern at Superior Court, was reportedly detained by the agents outside the Licht Judicial Complex on Benefit Street.
>Superior Court Judge Joseph McBurney insisted the agents had the wrong person. It was not until ICE verified their information and admitted the intern was not their intended target that he was released.
A kid, detained, and released after... due diligence.
>Multiple sources told Target 12 that Rhode Island sheriffs earlier noticed someone taking photos of the intern inside the courthouse and in Superior Court Judge McBurney’s courtroom. When approached, the individual identified himself as an ICE agent and was told to abide by standard courthouse rules, and to stop taking pictures.
>The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.
>Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked.
Holy shit. Straight up random profiling to photo ops at your workplace to violent abduction.
I will simply not be caught dead in that country.
Do you mean we're NOT the greatest country in the world anymore?
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This is a scary time for American citizens. At least the non-citizens typically still have a backup home abroad, whereas the citizens have everything invested domestically. It's still just the first year of the presidency.
The real fear is that this is the first year of something much worse than a presidency.
having a backup home abroad does you no good if you are trafficked to a labour camp in some random hellhole country
Yes, you can imagine bad things.
I mean we watched those things happen already. The whole CECOT thing was just a few months ago.
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