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albacore

(2,703 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:03 PM Thursday

Sorry if this has been explained before, but could calling ICE stormtroopers names...with no contact....

could get a person busted?
I wouldn't mind the busted part, but I'm 81, and my arms don't go behind my back for cuffs very easy anymore.
And forget that "on your knees" shit.

Scenario...ICE is raiding my local Home Depot....carting away day laborers to god knows where.. and I yell things about the ICE agent's intelligence, and mother's species.
Can they hassle me or bust me?

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Sorry if this has been explained before, but could calling ICE stormtroopers names...with no contact.... (Original Post) albacore Thursday OP
Interesting. H2O Man Thursday #1
And then they'll arrest you, claiming that you assaulted them... Jack Valentino Thursday #6
Not sure if it is legal on their part usedtobedemgurl Thursday #2
It would certainly not be legal but I expect they would arrest you. TomSlick Friday #8
I found the earlier post I talked about above. usedtobedemgurl Thursday #3
"Where'd you get that costume, Temu?" Qutzupalotl Thursday #4
So.... Gestapo, then, eh? albacore Thursday #5
I'm pretty sure they can't legally do anything to you Wiz Imp Thursday #7
You cannot use fighting words. Gore1FL Friday #9

H2O Man

(76,988 posts)
1. Interesting.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:06 PM
Thursday

Recommended.

I think that confronting ICE with insults poses the risk of being assaulted.

usedtobedemgurl

(1,734 posts)
2. Not sure if it is legal on their part
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:13 PM
Thursday

But they will bust you. There was something posted in a thread, about this, earlier today. A woman who had not touched the agents was either threatened with assault for her words or she was arrested. I cannot remember which.

TomSlick

(12,481 posts)
8. It would certainly not be legal but I expect they would arrest you.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 12:04 AM
Friday

Contempt of cop is not a crime. Contempt of Gestapo will land you in the Konzentrationslager.

usedtobedemgurl

(1,734 posts)
3. I found the earlier post I talked about above.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:22 PM
Thursday

It was in response to a wine guy being arrested by ICE. Here is what the reply post said:

9. The agents actually said asking questions was "assault"
10:36 AM
I underlined it in this excerpt rom the Guardian article:
Victoria Reader, who works for Sotelo as a vineyard manager, would know. She was in the car on 6 June, a week before Sotelo’s arrest, when another employee was also taken. Reader says that agents were masked and refused to identify themselves.

“They didn’t identify themselves. They just came out. They didn’t even say anything. They just started trying to open the doors,” Reader said. “I kept asking, who are you? What are you doing? And they wouldn’t answer.”

Reader said that agents would not tell her what immigration laws her employee violated, threatened her with assault of an officer for asking questions and told her she was not allowed to follow their cars or know where her employee was being taken.

Wiz Imp

(5,490 posts)
7. I'm pretty sure they can't legally do anything to you
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 11:02 PM
Thursday

But legality means nothing to current ICE agents. It seems the vast majority of their arrests are being done illegally.

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