Armed officers, frequent use of force and people grabbed on the street or at their places of work. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we have monitored the LA raids, discovering recurring trends and tactics used by officers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...
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ICESTAPO ICE Staats Polizei Are here to VictimICE residents.
Thugs not cops.
Trump’s secret police and Gestapo are here, in AmeriKKKa’s street and towns, kidnapping and rounding up people for concentration camps, with no warrants, and simply on the basis of skin color and accents. America is a fascist nation with a growing number of concentration camps.
Leave your phone at home if you need to maintain your anonymity while protesting. Apparently, DHS is illegally using IMSI loggers to identify the phones present at protests. san.com/cc/exclusive...
These video round-ups of recent arrests are stomach churning: imgur.com/gallery/land... imgur.com/gallery/land... imgur.com/gallery/land... imgur.com/gallery/land... imgur.com/gallery/land...
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Scum of the earth. Worst of the worst.
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So, they are going to terrorize ever Democratic city they want until that city gives them access everywhere
📌 You guys are worth your weight in gold bars. Keep doing what you do.
In April, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in the wake of the Bakersfield raids barring Border Patrol from conducting warrantless raids in California’s Eastern District, stating that “you just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say, ‘Give me your papers.’”
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Did Taco's impeachments make any difference yet? Did I miss something?
If they aren't careful, people are going to start carrying weapons. 'But judge, they were masked and I thought I was being kidnapped. I feared for my life. They should have ID'd themselves."
They weren't careful and they behaved like thugs or KKK. Now people are indeed armed. So the Trumper solution is to bring more force. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan taught that "more force" works both ways.
We collected videos of more than 100 incidents of arrest between June 6 and June 30 in Los Angeles and the immediate surrounding areas. We’ve provided a full list of the incidents for viewing and downloading here: bellingcat-embeds.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/2025-us-bord...
The footage shows agents from the likes of Border Patrol (BP) and, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arresting people in public spaces, from car washes to swap meets, in places of work and outside residences.
On more than one occasion it was unclear what agency officers were with due to a lack of clear identification, including unmarked vehicles. Officers also made efforts to obscure their identity from cameras.
In some footage collected from the LA raids in June, officers can be seen using significant force to detain people.
The raids bear similarities to incidents previously investigated by Bellingcat, @calmatters.org and @evidentmedia.org in California. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...
Gregory Bovino, head of the El Centro unit in the Bakersfield Raids, is now in-charge of the operations across LA. Agents from his El Centro Border Patrol unit have featured in footage of the LA raids. calmatters.org/investigatio...
El Centro? In Los Angeles?? The irony burns!
Sounds like you have your target then. This man is the enemy of free America. Handle him.
Discover the common themes we identified across all of the arrests by reading the full investigation here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...
You can find Evident’s short documentary also covering the investigation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bux...
You can see the story on CalMatters here: calmatters.org/investigatio...
Bellingcat is a not-for-profit and our work would not be possible without the kind support of individual donors. Help us continue this work by donating today: www.bellingcat.com/donate/
Couldn’t figure out how to cut through the nonsense.
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Incredible reporting as usual — reupping my @bellingcat.com donation such insanity breeds hundreds of questions, but one that springs to mind is what the fuck — if anything—does corporate Home Depot have to say about this?
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Nazi Bovino looks exactly as I expect him to.
bovine should take himself a lot less seriously considering that SCOTUS already ruled that he and his boss, donald j. trump, are both permanently disqualified insurrectionists impersonating government officials and holding office in violation of Sec3/14A via their trump vs. Anderson ruling...
The Butcher of Bakersfield
i wonder if Bovino has broken any local California laws by ordering these masked, forceful raids; or if he should be sued by some of the citizens and legal residents harmed?
So? Where are those extremely dangerous MS13 gang members? Almost looks like ICE Gestapo is AFRAID of them.
Proud Boys or Oath Keepers
This had The Others too.
Wtf
Yeah, you know the others that are also working outside of the law
Right. They can’t show their affiliations because they represent right wing vigilante groups and they have no code or training.
I will not stop posting this:Fake police,ICE INCELS,Cowards,Eunuchs,Fascist Terrorists.They are thugs:tactics of Gestapo,Stasi,KGB,Stalinś NKVD, Putinś FSB. inhuman barbarians. Inside the FascistHouse (WhiteHouse)calling the shots. find out who they are. And destroy.
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I will not stop posting this:Fake police,ICE INCELS,Cowards,Eunuchs,Fascist Terrorists.They are thugs:tactics of Gestapo,Stasi,KGB,Stalinś NKVD, Putinś FSB. inhuman barbarians. Inside the FascistHouse (WhiteHouse)calling the shots. find out who they are. And destroy.
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DHS DOD AND OTHER GOP SCUM CALLING IT #OperationReturntoSender
@davidjbier.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social
@robertgarcia.bsky.social @democrats-judiciary.house.gov @aclu.org @jennbudd.bsky.social @democraticags.bsky.social @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov @padilla.senate.gov
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It does not seem too complicated for this regime to understand that if they want to arrest or deport people, they must do it lawfully. If they want to lock people up, there we isss a legal process to follow.#ACLU
Restraining order granted against ice moments ago! Read up and know your rights amigos!
Good work, thank you
We shouldn’t call ICE “law enforcement”. They aren’t following the law. “We hold these truths to be self evident. That all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…”
#Gestapo tactics from bullies too cowardly to show their faces.
Thank you for this detailed reporting. We need more of this - louder and more frequent. How can you get on Fauuxx and tell the deniers the truth. It’s disgusting America is now a Fascist country. I never thought I would live to see this day.
Hugo Boss should make them some uniforms.
Governor Newsom should hire his own thugs to take these fuckers out!
I'm a bit surprised that someone like Bellingcat hasn't tried to track some of these guys down, find out who a few of them are, where they really come from, unmask them. Using drones or satellites. You know, Bellingcat stuff.
They need more / better quality video footage. ICE is escalating, so opportunities will come.
Pulling down their masks is more impactful than impeding their movements
All of this is leading to the violent confrontation that will involve deaths on both sides that they desperately need to put martial law into place by the midterms.
We could call them Titushky like the Ukrainians call Putin’s masked thugs, but fascist thugs is probably is the most apt.
Empower stupid people and put them into uniforms... And see what happens. Sounds familiar to me here in Germany. 33-45 vibes. Great U.S. 👍 "Land of the free" 🤢 😡
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Wonder how many of these masked goons are from the pardoned Jan 6 batch of criminals?
So far hasn't been proof found any of them are. There are folks like @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social, who tracks the J6 pardoned looking though so if you find any evidence of it and that these are not just federal cops she will absolutly help you confirm it I bet.
I will not stop posting this:Fake police,ICE INCELS,Cowards,Eunuchs,Fascist Terrorists.They are thugs:tactics of Gestapo,Stasi,KGB,Stalinś NKVD, Putinś FSB. inhuman barbarians. Inside the FascistHouse (WhiteHouse)calling the shots. find out who they are. And destroy.
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These fucking pussies...dressed like they're going into war, but they avoid going after "the worst of the worst," they go after mothers, children, and the elderly. After all, going after "bad people" like criminals might be a little dangerous. We need a name. Pussy Rangers?
Can we like, buy their data from data brokers and track them down and throw them up against the wall when the revolution starts?
This war against CA declared by trump has to end. Maybe there is someone who could broker a deal with trump.
