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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sun Aug 17, 2025, 07:38 PM Aug 17

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

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Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/17/dc-arrests-violent-takedown-immigration/

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A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman identified the man detained in the video as a Venezuelan national who she said illegally entered the United States in 2023 and was ordered removed by an immigration judge later that year.

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Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 17 OP
Six federal agents have to use violence to arrest a guy Irish_Dem Aug 17 #1
This is ICE WWF for the cameras bucolic_frolic Aug 17 #2
I hope the coffee was supposed to be delivered to a Republican congressperson biophile Aug 17 #3

Irish_Dem

(73,711 posts)
1. Six federal agents have to use violence to arrest a guy
Sun Aug 17, 2025, 07:41 PM
Aug 17

On a moped delivering coffee.

What gd coward nazis.

bucolic_frolic

(52,146 posts)
2. This is ICE WWF for the cameras
Sun Aug 17, 2025, 07:56 PM
Aug 17

He told you they should punch a few and carry them out on stretchers. This is showmanship.

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