ICE attacked a guy that was recording them abducting someone.Video shows East Boston residents Elizabeth Bally and Keith Dixon recording the arrest, before, without much warning, an agent shoves Dixon into a truck and then to the ground.
Bally and Dixon said they were given no instructions on where they could stand before they were shoved. They said they were not trying to impede the agents, but were trying to make sure the man being arrested was being given due process.
"Especially with the chaos of the moment, and it was really unclear who these people were and what was happening, and just making sure that processes were being followed," Bally said.
Dixon said he hurt his head, neck and shoulder, and is planning on going to the hospital to make sure he doesn't have a concussion.
If a Congressperson stands in the way of an ICE agent, she is arrested for assault. Meanwhile, actual assaults on witnesses by ICE are fine. We are dropping way past the norm for law enforcement impunity in democracies. You can say, whatever he just got shoved, but the LAPD beats down people with cameras. (Yet.)
There’s all sorts of law enforcement injustice in Canada, Australia, Belgium, Japan, and the like, but it’s not like this. This is Peru- or Hungary-level shit.