Federal agents arrested New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander outside an immigration court after he attempted to accompany a person out of a courtroom Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal agents arrested New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander outside an immigration court after he attempted to accompany a person out of a courtroom Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The POTUS is not taking care that the laws are being faithfully executed per the Constitution.
America, this needs to stop!
We The People must stop reacting to the illegal actions of ICE: we must act; find where they stay, eat, buy their clothes and guns, acquire their vehicles: BOYCOTT every company helping them. We must publish each kidnapper’s (ICE) address and their names, so Americans know who is kidnapping us.
THIS
I'll pay my taxes when muskrat does.
Feral Gestapo. Fixed it. 🚬😎
I see zero evidence that those thugs are ICE agents.
Actually, you don't know for a fact, that the kidnappers were federal agents. They did at no point identify themselves - and there were no visible badges. Just atire, bought at Amazon... You are not on your way to fascism, you are there now! If you don't fight back now, you WILL end in a civil war!
I worked many years in a VA hospital. Federal agents were on premises often, and there was never a doubt about who they were - you could spot them from a mile away! No way are these punks federal agents!
You think it can’t get worse …. One day when this regimes wings are clipped …ice, noem, homan will be made to pay for their criminal actions.
This is NOT what Democracy looks like…🤬
What possible offense was he ‘guilty’ of. I say guilty simply to emphasise that what ICE or whoever they are are doing is not legal. They should be the ones in cuffs.
They are the USA's gestapo. We are in deep trouble thanks to the Nazi party oh I mean the Republican party.
Terrible!
They may wear masks but technology will prevail and they will be dealt with
What ICE is doing is criminal. THEY are committing crimes. AND the GOP are endorsing these crimes against US.
Felon's gestapo goons.
Who are these thugs?
J6ers, KKK, Aryan Nations, Proud Boys, Patriot Front, South African/"Executive Outcomes "Mercs, Blackwater/Academi Mercs, Triple Canopy, and many corrupt cops and deputies working in their off-duty time. HANG. THEM. ALL.
The courts and Lawmakers better get their shit together to stop all this and make Trump and his goons obey the rule of law!
A police state. Run by the federal government. Call it what it is. And do something about it. It is unlawful!
ICE = Domestic Terrorists. They should be treated like it.
Fascism. Time to get Trump and his illegitimate regime out!
I think we need to reach out to the Pope's newly appointed US-based Bishop who is spearheading a group within the church to also accompany immigrants to court. www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-leo-bishop-immigrants-court_n_684c41d0e4b070091d7755c6
Maga uses religion as a weapon. Time to neutralize that rhetoric and coordinate with other powerful groups. www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-leo-bishop-immigrants-court_n_684c41d0e4b070091d7755c6
Security in that building should forbid the wearing of masks.
ICE is Choking him in this picture. bsky.app/profile/sham...
With a smile I might add 🤬
Fuck ICE...Another declaration of war .......they will lose, and lose big.
Why haven’t immigration cases been switched to virtual?
The agents didn’t identify themselves. They didn’t produce a warrant for the immigrants arrest They didn’t state a probable cause for taking the immigrant into custody therefore they were kidnapping him Anyone detained asking for them to produce the 3 was ILLEGAL detained
The madness is spreading!!
Vigilante fascists. That’s what I see. This regime is in every possible way CRIMINAL.
Stop this crap.
Twenty years ago this would have gotten ICE disbanded and heads would roll starting with the Secretary of Homeland Security.
The Gestapo in real life
They(ICE) take an oath to the constitution when they join right?
Why are “masked agents” allowed in Federal buildings? For a party that didn’t want to mask to stop COVID, they’re certainly happy to mask like they’re robbing stagecoaches in a black and white Western movie from the 1950’s . ICE= Nazi.
Where are the badges? Where are the ID's? Where are the uniforms? These are nothing but masked thugs kidnapping a state official and mayoral candidate as far as I'm concerned!!!
Someday ICE agents will be sitting in prison shaking in their boots.
And they’ll be treated the same way they treated detainees
These guys do not appear to be official Ice agents. Someone needs to get to the bottom of how these masked, rag-tag "agents" are being recruited and informed of what location to report to.
They are the pardoned insurrectionist from Jan 6th 45 is building his personal army If they weren't doing wrong Why hide🤷♀️
wtf ?
I wonder how Steven Miller would feel if he were abducted by masked men claiming he is an illegal alien. 👽 Just sayin’
I think Miller was abducted and indoctrinated a long time ago.
Or a masked man claiming to be ICE?
Donald Trump's america...where the innocent and justice defending get handcuffed, and the fraudsters and grifters get out of jail free cards and no jail time for their crimes, o they also get a pass from the Republican supreme court.
I'm tired of this crap!!
Time for ice yo go to jail
If Trump can’t be held accountable it’s time start holding these “agents” accountable.
They don't look like Ice.
They couldn't give a rat's ass about the law, let alone the fact that they need to have a judicial warrant to arrest the man in question. To arrest someone for even asking on the man's behalf is disgusting overreach. This is war. They are taking away our rights of our lawmakers, state and federal.
Ice-stapo assaulted & kidnapped …. Fixed it for ya Mr @marcelias.bsky.social
Do you see the pattern of ONLY Dems being arrested or assaulted? From Paul Pelosi to now?
Could it be that dems don't physically assault their political opponrnts?
Could it be that Republicans do?
First, how do we know they are federal agents? What identifies them? You'd think after what happened in MN, anyone claiming to be law enforcement shd have some sort of identifying clothing, badge showing so. Otherwise any Joe Public cd grab ppl off the street.
Intimidation is what they do best.
Type II Tyrants
ABOLISH ICE NOW
NYC loves to vote for federal felons. Nice strategy, Brad.
Stop saying*federal* agents too. Proud boys sure. Federal myass
What do we do? Does anyone know these thugs, the so-called federal agents? Who is in charge?
I guess now it is agains the law to ask questions?
Where is NY Governor? Where is NY State District Attorney? Where are NY state police? These "agents" violated state and federal law. Why are they not being charged, why are they not being prosecuted.
The article says that Governor Hochul went to the building where they were holding him and demanded his release.
Did she stomp her foot? Did she refuse to eat her vegetables? Has she found the limit of her power? Unless she went there with a cordon of heavily armed state troopers, Lander is staying put. Of course SHE can always call out the NYS National Guard.
He's been released.
Another article says that he accompanied the guy and he has been accompanying multiple people in the recent weeks
Keep this news and the accompanying footage up and running-here on Bluesky and all other s & m outlets. Make sure the federal terrorists know WE'RE WATCHING THEM as is the world.
Yes. He was likely to win.
The cowardly masked ICE agent wouldn’t show his credentials to a NYC elected official. How do you think they would act towards us? All we can do is try every one of these guys in a Nuremberg like tribunal when Trump is gone. “I was only taking orders” no longer works as a defense.
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I’m not sure that what’s broken now can be fixed!
We are officially Russia
Or 1930s Germany.
They don't look like federal agents. They look like Trump's private militia, or freikorp if you please.
Take melania instead.
It’s time now to take control of the country or what’s left of it.
Democrats need to start making clear there will be personal accountability.
And now they are taking the Jewish people away.
ICE IS DOMESTIC TERRORISM ORGANIZATION.
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So, when is someone going to grow a spine? Or is this a new, agreed on form of perforate?
If the "agents" don't identify themselves then how do we know they are official? If they are not official, then how is this a lawful arrest? Someone please explain to me how this is not kidnapping and abduction.
Nazism
Yep. American Gestapo.
Everyone needs to stop using the word arrest if we have no idea who the perpetrators are. If masked men grab me without identifying themselves, I'm going to respond as if they are intruders in my home, as if my life depends on it. I'm a 5'2" 112 lb female. I would try my best to kill them.
perhaps they are NOT ice agents but that of proud-girls acting as cultists SS troops masks to hide identity as no markings on 'uniform' Occam’s razor
WTH
Where it’s gone. bsky.app/profile/sant...
Forgot the Wisconsin Judge
WHO???, gives the thugs THE ORDER to go KIDNAP ppl? WHO? targets the ppl to be KIDNAPPED & WHERE do they get their info?
Btw...don't one of you motherfuckers tell me all cops aren't bad... im not saying that...im saying they are HAPPY to follow orders and not question them..
Every Fucking Cop I know loves to arrest people and lay hands on them.. I know HUNDREDs. They are my friends... But this...this is bullshit. Trump has opened this pandoras box. I recommend all attorneys leverage video conferencing to avoid courts. attorneys contract with private security
the above is already outdated; they (5-1) simply grab and manhandle you and ignore anything you say; you think they are going to make a call when you've got your hands behind your back?
I was actually thinking more about the others around the person who would be making the call. And if enough onlookers kept doing that enough that 911 would complain, maybe,just maybe, there may be an impact.
It is absolutely no wonder that political violence is on the up-tick. This type of thuggish behavior by the administration against democratic politicians gives a green light to fanatics to carry out acts of lethal violence.
There are a few people unmasked here doing this illegal act. We should be able to identify them for all to know who they are!
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Read these books by Dr. Bandy X. Lee: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and her follow up book: The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Psychiatrists discuss the truth of his mental condition which demonstrates his severe mental illness. He is unhinged and can’t function in the real world.
DEFUND ICE IN ITS ENTIRETY! @schiff.senate.gov @ronwyden.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @jamieraskin.bsky.social @progressdems.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov
There were more citizens there with phones than there were ICE. Until we the people do something about this, using whatever means necessary, it will continue.
The Masked ICE Gang! Dangerous home grown hoodlums.
Because he asked for a warrant. Buried the lead.
In order for there to be an arrest, first you need actual crime, and actual cops. There's no hint of either. This is straight up assault and kidnapping.
ICE are fascists who hate all that America stands for. They are the ones that should be jailed for abuse of force. We need immigration control but that doesn't require ICE. It it time to empty the ice bucket and start fresh .
This is beyond disgusting. What gives these people the authority to arrest anyone for these bogus charges? This is the USA, goddamn it, and I want us to act like it - and not let a troop of mean monkeys continue to lord it over us and get away with it.
This was a political stunt by a candidate who has no chance of winning
Possible, maybe probable, but still f'd up.
There has already been a mugging and rape attempts by people dressed as 'ICE' agents. Normalize taking out unidentified men kidnapping people. That's what the 2nd Amendment is for, to stop an evil government. Get to it! Oh, the 2A boys are on Trump's side... got it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MayJ...
This administration is out of control. A US citizen and politician arrested because he asked to see a warrant.
Was their arrest of the other man coming out of court illegal? I haven’t seen anything about that.
I don't understand why court officers or local police can't intervene on these obviously illegal arrests of bystanders who merely ask to see a warrant. It seems like there aren't any decent LEOs anymore.
What line are we waiting for to be drawn?
.. i think ice are Chinese cartels
The fuckers just boosted his campaign
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Sue the hell out of them fuckers traitors cowards
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This is bullshit. This whole regime is out of control.
Do you know who makes arbitrary, extrajudicial arrests of innocents? Nazis, fascists, and drumpf’s goons. Oh, right, same thing.
Yet another tragedy at the hands of our new dictator.
The Trump Gestapo beat down another Democratic politician just after a Trump supporter, dressed in police like tactical gear goes after 4 Democratic politicians in their homes shooting and killing some. Difficult not to see the similarity to the Nazis— unless you’re determined NOT to see it. 😕🚩
Stop using the word "arrested" until it's confirmed that any of those "agents" are from ICE. The incident should be labeled as an abduction.
Agreed.
His wife confirmed it. He's been detained and arrested. www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/u...
This should be a bigger melee. Those people with phones need to step up and help. We're witnessing an abduction. We wouldn't stand idle if a child was being grabbed. Should not allow a person to be taken by masked thugs
Yeah all the footage people have been bravely collecting seems to be having the intended affect (13 million protesters!!!), but people are still being abducted. I fear terribly for the ones who don't make the news. Expecting no oversight and ice trying to make profit, their conditions could be fatal
I've been following a few experts on govt and tyranny and they say keep up the protests. This regime is starting to crack. I predict by the end of the summer we'll be in full crisis mode and things will change for the better
Yeahhhhhh I believe you're right. It feels like their power is looking thinner every day. 💖🦋🌎
They'll ramp up the distractions tho. That could include an attack on foreign nations. Or an attack on us. Tim Snyder foresees some sort of chaotic event. It's a pattern of tyranny
Yup. I think he will try both at once. He basically already is. The good news is, none of this is unfolding as badly as the equivalent historical situation (so far). Seems like when people have the ability to share footage; warn each other; spot the patterns; the resistance really is effective 🫶
I was surprised how quickly DJT went to work implementing project '25. I think he knows time is short for him tho. He has to act quickly before his house of cards implodes
Yup I was thinking that too. Assault and abduction.
January 6th Insurrectionists more like it.
Where are their badges ? Official Uniforms ? Their IDs? The warrant ?
Why aren’t states opening investigations into these arrests? CA should investigate the Padilla case and NY with this one.
Can ICE be sued??? Or reprimanded by a judge?? Or...anything?
What. The. Fuck.
Everyone in America should paste their own face over Lander's and study it really closely for a while just, you know, to be a little bit better prepared for when it's your turn
The problem is, they'll think this is a flex.
1) Why is one of the goons wearing a covid/surgical mask? T'was not long ago that was like, the worst and most un-American thing you could do. 2) Why the fuck aren't these fuckers wearing uniforms? A cop without a uniform is just some asshole trying to kidnap you.
This has got to stop.
He didn’t attempt to accompany anyone, he asked for a warrant (which they, no clue who these plain clothes Gestapo agents are, never produced) and arrested him
Tyrannical.
How about the governor getting all these brown shirts the bleep out of the federal building???
This is BS!
Arrest? Or attack? One sounds official and the other is just the truth.
He wasn’t arrested. It’s called kidnapping.
Leonard Leo who stacked the courts, and friends Want the litigation.
This is out of control; someone needs to put a muzzle on them.
Shameful.
I hope you are helping him sue this administration for false arrest.
@schumer.senate.gov This is how it’s done
Wish we didn't have to refer to them as ICE agents. How many of them are sworn?
Refer to them as the gestapo. That’s what they are
Yes they are
Enough is enough!
Animals…..
Gestapo on steroids.
Trump just got Lander elected. Good job, Donnie!
What’s it going to take for this crap to be stopped? This is not our democracy.
The #Hero we didn't know how much we needed, until now. Thank you. #MarcElias ✌🏽💔🌼
What qualifies a thug to be called an ICE agent? Is it the mask, the lack of uniform and a badge, or something else?
Gestspo pigs Must be stopped They’re kidnapping ppl They don’t have warrants
Imagine people coming to America for the Olympics. Not.
The citizens around these abductions have just as much right to subdue and detain these gestapo assholes as they do to do what they’re doing. If they can we can.
Nuremberg II
How we going to find independent prosecutors after this mess?
that’s a good question maybe @legalafmtn.bsky.social or @democracydocket.com or @glennkirschner.bsky.social probably know how that works
They’re hardly impartial. At this point anyone with a brain is biased against Trump.
And F——ing DO something!! I am SO sick of investigations that go NOWHERE.
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Dictatorship is here
A good, Jewish man. Shameful.
Bring it. It’s crap like this that will bring them down.
ICE that is.
ID the criminals, fire them, and prosecute.
This is what elected officials should be doing though. Get in the way, make it hard and generate news stories. Time for more protests (peaceful). If we are all out in the streets it's even harder for ICE to work
So obvious that Lander, not DHS agents, is the assault victim.
The one on the left is NOT an agent. That is obvious by his clothes and mask. Citizens need to FIGHT BACK!
WTF is going on?? Another unlawful arrest…. Can anyone stop this?? My constant protesting , calling, writing doesn’t seem to be having any effect. Are we done for, is democracy done for, is America done for???
They are trying to silence opposition.
Body guards sound appropriate NOW.
Take this to SCOTUS. Maybe if SCOTUS is overwhelmed by cases. (That would be minus Alito and Thomas who probably love this shit. I think Amy Coney Barrett is getting sick of it as well as the three liberal justices... and that leaves Roberts and the Drunk)🤔
There are cameras everywhere in those facilities. Check the footage. Ice doesn't have body cams I imagine? But some other law enforcement might?
Ice should not be wearing masks. Period.
They also take an Oath to the 4th Amendment: "The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government...
...requiring that warrants be issued based on probable cause and specific details about the search. It aims to ensure privacy and security in personal spaces and belongings."
Spineless thugs going after normal citizens. En mass. Cowards & illegal wannabe cops who apparently have been given permission to harass & kidnapp.
How do we know they were actually Federal agents? Masked, no ID, apparently did not present a judicial warrant? Anybody can wear a shirt that says “FBI”, and on that so FBI agents are now going around fully masked?
ICE IS JUST THE KKK NAZI INCEL KLAN OF THR LOST CAUSE GESTAPO.
Seems like the typical things you'd say when you're about to be arrested or detained like Do you have a warrant...You don't have authority...I didn't do anything...I'm an American citizen...are now meaningless. If they want to kidnap you they will. What else can you do in the moment to prevent it?
If these assholes don't show ID's and warrants, the police need to be called. This is assault and kidnapping.
No ID, and No warrant? That's a good recipe for a cracked windpipe. Do everything you have to, to defend yourselves.
A little confused I thought Trump said he was going to stop the DOJ from being politicized and going after political opponents to prevent what happened to him. Certainly doesn't look that way.
the #Technocrats are going hog wild while the #donestic #Nazi #ClownCar is off the chain… I can’t imagine what the #G7 meetings look like right now
I just donated to his campaign
if you don’t know that they are federal agents, you should stop reporting that they are.
Name and shame these thugs. For once we can see their faces.
Crazy. This admin is crazy to their core
How do masked men gain access to a courthouse? Doesn't the court police or security have a view on masked men inside a courthouse? Ppl can't even get inside if they're wearing a motorcycle helmet. There are signs saying they must be removed. Same in a bank.
THIS MUST STOP!!!!
Another outrageous attack on the rule of law. The path between what happened to Brad Lander (and Senator Padilla and Rep. McIver) and what happened to Alexei Navalny may be a lot shorter than we realize....
An unbelievable illegal overreach. Well no one stopped them? I’m quickly losing faith in Congress doing anything.
Hope he gets a gigantic electoral boost
Arrested for doing his job.
Perhaps it's time to use your second amendment rights against these people, especially if they time for you and you own a gun.
That's what I've been saying.
I don't think you're telling the whole story.
That might help him win an election. I hope.
ICE is out of control
For fucks sake. What did he supposedly do. This is not acceptable
Minor quibble? If ICE doesn't have legal arresting or detainment authority, then it's just assault.
Come on now. This is insane.
This is only the beginning!!!
Targeting political opponents.
Not enough anger on the left. Keep it up.
Federal agents or MAGATS pretending to be? Will we ever know?
I wish someone could verify the identities of these goons.
Abolish ICE Gestapo now
Who are these guys in jeans and tee shirts arresting elected officials (who all happen to be Democrats)? And other individuals? Who hired them? Who has their employment info? Do we know they're not Proud Boys (or brown shirts)? Or guys posing as cops?
They're NOT federal agents. They're dudes in jeans and tshirts with one wearing a backwards baseball cap at his age.
Open Questions: Is ICE violating the rights of American citizens? If the answer is YES, what immediate steps will the courts and Congress be taking to mitigate this concern?
Where are our representatives???? This cannot stand. LLTR!!
The t*ump administration must be stopped!
I’m sorry but even though I agree with his actions and thinks ICE is the Gestapo, he clearly prepared for this and planned to use it to boost his mayoral ambitions
Elected officials are now fair game for the Trump regime.
the police, DOJ, federal agents, Homeland Security….. who YOU PAY! have chosen fascism, brutality, hate and murder they take YOUR money then they COME FOR YOU! THEY are the enemy within THEY take YOUR MONEY and betray you
Can Lander sue for that treatment with no actual violations on his part?
Not an arrest—more of an abduction!