“And they just got out of the car with the guns in their hands and say, turn off the car, give me the keys, open the window, you know,” Machado said. “Everything was really fast.”
Machado said the officers told him the name of a man for whom they said they had a deportation order, and who had purportedly given Machado’s home address. He said he offered to show his Virginia driver’s license—a Real ID requiring proof of lawful status to acquire—but “they didn’t ask for any ID.”
“I was telling the officer, if I can give him ID, but he said just keep my hands up, not moving,” Machado told Quiñonez. “After that, he told me to get out of the car and put the handcuffs on me. And then he went to me and said how did I get into this country and if I was waiting for a court date or if I have any case. And I told him I was an American citizen, and he looked at his other partner like, you know, smiling, like saying, can you believe this guy? Because he asked the other guy, ‘Do you believe him?’”
Congratulations, sir. You have successfully avoided being beaten or shot by ICE officers because you kept calm and followed instructions. Now let your mind wander to how the scenario will play out when they pull over your teenage son or daughter. Will your child stay calm? Or will they be terrified and panic and do something that gives the officers the excuse they need to beat them bloody or even kill them?
You voted for hate. You got it.
Now let your mind wander to how the scenario will play out when they pull over your teenage son or daughter.
Conservatives are literally unable to feel empathy
Conservatives can often learn to feel 1 specific form of empathy, but only after it personally affects someone in their life and only for that single issue.
Don’t forget lucky that the officers didn’t start giving conflicting commands. Yelling “freeze” and “put your hands up” then shooting and later claiming “oh I thought he was reaching for a weapon, I feared for my life.”
That reminds me of that murder of the homeless guy by those cops video that was circulating years ago.
I wouldn’t recognize and ice vehicle, and I’d assume I’m about to be carjacked or worse.
MAGA folks never care about cruelty until it affects them, then they cry for mercy and compassion. To them the damaging human consequences are either justice, religious imperative, or necessary cost - until they are the ones paying. Now they reap the fruits of their indifference or often full-on support of the suffering of others. I still feel bad for the innocent, like children or those who have opposed this malevolent chaos from the beginning.
Those who show no mercy deserve no mercy, especially from their own goons.
Yep - the GOP over the last few decades tossed away any morality and took the easiest path they could for coalition building, assembling the stupid, bigoted, gullible, and most importantly - least empathetic bunch of people. Literally tossing away conservative ideology and specifically preying on these people’s weaknesses.
No, no, they were “lied to.” We have to just sweep their cruelty under the rug because they get it now 🥺
There’s going to be a lot of that. I live in the Southwest, and the number of Trump-voting Latinos is shockingly high. There are a lot of conservative Latinos who straight up consider themselves to be white. Gonna be a real shock for them when it finally sinks in what the rest of their party thinks about that.
Latino voter implies that they are citizens. So when they hear something like “stricter immigration laws” they think it doesn’t apply to them because they have the documentation that says they are citizens. But none of that matters when ICE pulls you over at gunpoint for looking illegal.
They believed they were the exceptions. Because they got theirs. It’s all those other illegals that are bad.
It’s more like, “I went through it the hard, legitimate way. It took me years. And then these people just hop the fence and get me in trouble for it?”
There’s a good NYT - The Interview podcast about it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/magazine/ruben-gallego-interview.html
When we come home from the beach we go through an immigration checkpoint. My friend always says, “OK everyone. Try to look white.”
Second thought would mean he ever thought in the first place
Wow, leopards with guns, scary
Pity they released him so fast. Idiots like this are part of the reason the whole world is now suffering the turd presidency, so no amount of schadenfraude will be enough when it comes to them.
We gotta stop calling it a presidency. It’s an authoritarian oligarchy not a presidency. Let’s get terminology right so the minority of literate maga retards keep reading it until their 1 brain cell clicks and understands the long words.
Hope this happens a LOT more to these selfish imbeciles.
Fucking moron.
Latinos are the new “black”.
Getting pulled over for DWB (Driving While Black) is a new concept for them.
Welcome to the club.
Sounds more to me like he’s having his first thought.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Machado said he was uncuffed and immediately released after the officers saw his identification. The two men with him were taken into custody. Machado said he does not know why.
