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muriel_volestrangler

(105,617 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 05:31 AM Tuesday

ProPublica: More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing [View all]

This story contains photos, videos and descriptions of violent arrests.

After George Floyd’s murder by a police officer six years ago in Minneapolis — less than a mile from where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good last week — police departments and federal agencies banned chokeholds and other moves that can restrict breathing or blood flow.
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Examples are scattered across social media. ProPublica found more than 40 cases over the past year of immigration agents using these life-threatening maneuvers on immigrants, citizens and protesters. The agents are usually masked, their identities secret. The government won’t say if any of them have been punished.

In nearly 20 cases, agents appeared to use chokeholds and other neck restraints that the Department of Homeland Security prohibits “unless deadly force is authorized.”

About two dozen videos show officers kneeling on people’s necks or backs or keeping them face down on the ground while already handcuffed. Such tactics are not prohibited outright but are often discouraged, including by federal trainers, in part because using them for a prolonged time risks asphyxiation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens

Retired immigration and border patrol officers (retired before the fascist regime) say they arrested many actual drug traffickers, human smugglers, or child molesters who resisted, and never had to use these chokeholds.
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Get thee to the greatest page for vusibility malaise Tuesday #1
I second that emotion. yellow dahlia Tuesday #13
K&R 2naSalit Tuesday #2
Quite intentional orangecrush Tuesday #3
Agreed. yellow dahlia Tuesday #14
They're thugs, pure and simple, lawless thugs... Fil1957 Tuesday #4
Kicking for visibility MustLoveBeagles Tuesday #5
Sounds like as of the Figarosmom Tuesday #6
40 cases that we're aware of PatSeg Tuesday #7
Chilling to think about. yellow dahlia Tuesday #15
Yes and I think that as bad as it looks PatSeg Tuesday #17
The fact that we all have cameras in our phones is critical, right now. yellow dahlia Tuesday #18
And then you have most homes PatSeg Tuesday #19
Indeed. Abusers double down. yellow dahlia Tuesday #20
Yes, that has been my experience PatSeg Yesterday #22
this is what's been seen... Javaman Tuesday #8
Yes, I'd assume much more without recordings. Which is why people like Renee Good are important muriel_volestrangler Tuesday #9
More evidence that Congress MUST defund and abolish ICE, by rescinding the Homeland Security Act of 2002. ancianita Tuesday #10
secret police thugs. How is this ANY different than the Nazi's? Evolve Dammit Tuesday #11
There was an incident in St Paul of ICE doing that and the person was unresponsive Blue Full Moon Tuesday #12
I never knew I could feel SO much hate. yellow dahlia Tuesday #16
Horrible pattyloutwo Yesterday #21
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