'This Is Our Reality': Charlotte Residents Horrified After Border Patrol Arrests Women for Honking Car Horn

[cbabe]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/charlotte-border-patrol-arrest

‘This Is Our Reality’: Charlotte Residents Horrified After Border Patrol Arrests Women for Honking Car Horn

“Our city has gone from a thriving city to a standstill,” said one local official.

BRAD REED
Nov 18, 2025

Residents in Charlotte, North Carolina are expressing outrage after two local women were arrested for honking their car horn to alert others that US Border Patrol was in the area.

Local news station WCNC reported on Monday that the two women, who are US citizens, were taken into custody in the city’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood after Border Patrol agents pulled them over and accused them of interfering in operations by honking their horn.

Video of the incident shows masked federal agents yelling at the women and demanding that they roll down their car windows. When the women do not comply, one officer smashes through the window and then he and other officers pull them out of the vehicle.

… more… video at link …

[SunSeeker]

1. Holy shit. Honking your horn now gets you arrested? Hope they sue! nt

[ruet]

2. It's Going to Get Them Paid. -NT-

[Cirsium]

14. Yes

They may be paid, but the perpetrators don't pay any price. That's the problem.

[DFW]

3. Remind me--we need the Border Patrol in North Carolina for WHAT exactly?

Handling the several incoming flights per day from Europe?

The rest to handle the hoards of illegal Virginians and South Carolinians rushing in without valid work visas?

[leftstreet]

7. ...but they're bringing cows now

[Traildogbob]

4. These mutherfuckers need to pay

Every penny out of THIER paychecks for law suits AND fucking busted windows. Garage em for property destruction and damage. Do you know the cost of an electric side window. Fuck every God damned one of Those tin soldiers. This time coming with trump, not Nixon.
Noem for prison. Put here in an animal shelter gage for decades.

[Arazi]

12. They have qualified immunity. They won't pay a cent

Their goal is to stop the alerts, in that moment.

They’re succeeding

[Traildogbob]

15. You are correct

Crime is a business these days. Very profitable and above the law.
I consider a horn in this case as Free Speech. As much as money is.
These J6Thugs would have beat out the eyes of Paul Reveres Horse to stop him from alerting the British are coming. Stop the Alerts!

[Cirsium]

16. You seem to forget

You seem to forget how civil suits stopped the Nazis in Germany back in the '30s.

[lindysalsagal]

5. The senate needs to be held accountable for not stopping this infringement of civil rights.

[erronis]

8. You mean by impeaching the mother-f'er?

Too many paid off, tired wussy-asses.

[purr-rat beauty]

6. At what point

Will the sovereign citizens, Don't Tread on me types and the 2Aer's come out of the dark

Oh....haha....these fucks ARE those types

[NHvet]

9. Thanks Brett

I just guess these US citizens can now sue for damages and false arrest? Better bring a the BIG bags of cash. ICE doesn't have authority to detain and arrest US Citizens.

[Cirsium]

17. Not a solution

Law suits are not a solution to the problem.

[Xipe Totec]

10. More slime in the ICE machine. nt

[oberle]

11. In Washington DC

they are making the families pay for towing the cars of the people they have kidnapped. I wonder what the ICEbastards are doing in other cities?

[IronLionZion]

13. Next even looking disapprovingly at them will get people arrested

Posting on DU will be treason.
If they don't like you or what you're doing for any reason, they'll arrest and make up some charges later if they feel like it.

[republianmushroom]

18. This is Noem's republican Gestapo at work

on the tax payer dollar.