Mom and her two kids terrorized by Border Patrol checkpoint out in the desert

[Xipe Totec]

[yuiyoshida]

1. This is the New Trump Administration...

She is lucky she wasn't Black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American. It would have been far worse.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Remind me again what these guy's job is? Protect? Who's being protected here? nt

[yuiyoshida]

4. Good question

I have said, all of long, that in the near future no one will be allowed to leave the country because they want total control of who can leave and who can't.

[Kali]

10. No, they have been like this for years.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018421469

[maddiemom]

13. Initially I wondered if her kids looked Hispanic.

That would have been reprehensible to begin with, and yet they were Anglo/blond. And the slashed tire! What was the excuse for that in any case? Probably the "Agents" were bored and decided to see how far they could go under the new Trump regime.

[democrank]

2. Authority like this without checks is frightening.

That slashed tire, out in the desert....

Hope this family recovers.

[meadowlark5]

5. Welcome Trump's America - patrolled by the Gestapo

And they're only getting warmed up.

[The Wielding Truth]

7. Published on Apr 2, 2014 Yet another troublesome checkpoint video involving the U.S. Border Patrol.

Truth. It maybe worse under Trump, but this happened in 2014. I tried to post the web address but it just embedded the video again. I'll just type it in.


https://www.youtube.com

[meadowlark5]

8. So that's always been their standard of practice

And if it was bad like that under Obama oy, is it going to be bad with Trump giving them permission to be a huge bag of dicks.

[Xipe Totec]

12. Yes, this is the MO for these jackbooted thugs. nt

[Crash2Parties]

15. Not the Gestapo - the Sturmabteilung

They're paramilitary & attract the worst abusers of power from the middle class. I don't think we've met the Gestapo yet, as they were somewhat more organized, competent and secretive.

Wonder if Trump/Pence/Bannon will have their own Night of the Long Knives...

[heaven05]

6. well

all better worry.....glad no minority person was hurt or killed.....the brownshirts just do not care, to do this to a women and kids...geez..shit is bad taze, slash tires, cut seatbelt threats...that border patrol site is known. But they will say it's here word against there's since no video evidence is apparently available.

[Kali]

9. Oh is that where he got sent?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018421469

[DK504]

11. This is jaw dropping

stuff. Everything they did was illegal. Threatening and illegal searches? Vandelizing her car? She needs to call a lawyer NOW.

[IronLionZion]

14. Thugs corrupted by authority

abusing their power.

Frankly, I'm astonished it is starting to happen to white people. It's always been like this for brown people who carry several forms of ID and they still don't believe we're here legally. Lots of white people don't even carry their ID with them.