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Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

Not the key part of this story, obviously... but they *sold* his phone? WTF?

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Since he was able to use Find My Phone to locate it, that indicates that the phone was not wiped before resale - meaning his personal information and digital property were being sold off as well. Evil is bad. Incompetent evil is often worse.

My blood pressure went up reading this, seeing the videos I had to stop I am so angry We need to send this to every elected representative in Washington DC and every state capitol Impeach Kristi Noem

Those assholes had his ID, so there's a very high chance that they used it (or some other detainee's ID) to sell the phone. Theft of a phone isn't a felony in Texas (I think this was in Texas?), but identity theft sure is.

Per Google, Yes, used cell phone kiosks work like ATM require a government-issued photo identification and take a live picture of the seller. These are essential security measures to prevent fraud and the sale of stolen devices.

All this stuff they're doing is openly criminal. But until state AGs and county DAs decide to get off the sidelines and start indicting these thugs, they'll keep doing it.

Brett Kavanaugh needs to explain this to the American people. This is what the Revolutionary War was fought over. Kavanaugh needs to read the 4th Amendment!

Gov. Bob Ferguson@governorferguson.bsky.social

What's happening in our country and our state with ICE is horrific, unjust, and it needs to stop — now. I support a bill to prohibit law enforcement from wearing masks and to require identifying information. Let’s get that to my desk immediately so I can sign it into law.

I know this isnt the point but I've never seen a vending machine like that before, all trying to search online routes me to ads for buying a vending machine lol. Can I get an explainer like...can someone put a phone in there for a set price w/o checking if its unlocked so the buyer can use it??

I don’t see how that is an official duty of the agents job. Could it be possible that the agent committed a crime? Especially if the agent fraudulently had a monetary gain from such action?

ICE meets Reno 911. Dangle: “The budget was tight this year, so we’ve just been grabbing people’s cell phones and selling them out of a vending machine Garcia cooked up. Right, Garcia?” (Garcia marches a blind hooker off to intake as he pilfers her purse)

It's worse than they stole his phone. They were tampering with evidence they were destroying evidence. He filmed. When they realized he was 16 and they were oh my god in trouble yeah they took his phone and stuck it in that machine thinking that nobody could get it back. And stole the money from him

You need an ID to sell a phone to one of those machines. They're (probably) not dumb enough to use their own ID's. No problem, they have a stack of ID's they've confiscated. So there is very probably identity theft going on as well.

There should be police reports made re theft by ICE thugs. I saw a video where thugs were just stuffing the belongings of their most recent kidnap victim (a US citizen) into their pants pockets. In another video, thugs distribute the paid-for groceries of an immigrant stopped in a parking lot.

This is beyond parody that the entire Republican Party is just going along with it. John roberts too. Still just sitting on that immunity decision for the rapist felon insurrectionist. It’s still January 6. They’ve moved on from shitting in our Capitol.

Not unusual. There have been many cases of people abducted then released after it's discovered they're US Citizens, and their wallets are emptied. Cash missing. Debit cards used. Fraudulent charges on credit cards. These thugs are nothing more than institutionalized thieves.

They are government employees, yes. And yes, that means every single one of them can be identified in the future. Government records are forever.

The kiosk actually does require id, I used one of them before when I took one of my old phones to get money for it. There should be security footage that can be obtained.

There is a silver lining here. Rather than being part of an organized protocol, this rather proves that ICE is insanely sloppy. If they were coordinated they would have internal protocols to burn or pulverize these devices. Instead someome sold it for pocket change. Theyre inept.

Burning or pulverizing the phone would result in no profit. The only reason to do that would be to defend themselves in some way. But why would they need to defend themselves? Americans are putting up no pressure. They can steal all they want, and nothing will come of it.

This is the logical result when you tell people they have "absolute immunity". There have been a lot of charges of various kinds of sexual assault from them, too. All of this is probably just the tip of the iceberg...

No morals, no integrity, no good character- these cretins must be held to account for their criminality. Trained police officers should absolutely take offence to theses liars and posers. They are Jan6 criminals as their base.

In the beginning of this horrid shtshow, there’s many videos of them taking all the foods etc- from the businesses they raided, out the backdoor

What I find shocking is that there are vending machines for used electronics. WTF It's all insane with the tRUmp regime/terrorists..

This supports something I've been wondering: what happens to the assets of the disappeared? Their vehicles, phones, ID, the money on them, their cards, their homes, the stuff in them, their bank accounts. Smells like massive asset theft going on at ICE as a special "incentive" to the thugs :(

Nazis have been placed in power who think & act outside the law. Until the majority if the US agree that we END ICE & incarcerate every ICE employee, this shit only gets worse. The Democratic policy now should be that every ICE employee will be indicted at some point. Their lives are already over.

What we, the public, can see of ICE, is literally the tip of the iceberg. What they are doing to the people they abduct, and the people they imprison and deport, is more horrible than we can imagine. These people are violent sadists.

That the sadistic criminals who assaulted a child not only stole his phone but sold it demonstrates absolutely that there is zero law enforcement purpose to what is happening.

Secret police loot. It is part of their income. Secret police rape. It is part of their fun. Secret police kill. It is part of ethnic cleansing. The far right ideology is about who has the right to exist. If you are not one of them expect to be robbed, raped and murdered.

Don’t most of those machines have surveillance simply BECAUSE they are used so often for stolen phones? Surely we could find out the person that stolen and sold the phone and pocketed the money

A huge factor in this is the basic desire to take other people's stuff by force. It's baked into white supremacy - a feature, not a bug. They will not stop taking.

States need to use their full power to: 1) Report ICE to Child Protective Services any time they abuse a child. 2) File a police reports on any assaults. 3) Local authorities need to investigate and prosecute. 4) Ensure agents do not pass background check for life.

The level of intentional cruelty is staggering. I can see arguing about immigration, legal or illegal. That is a conversation that can be had. But the violence and cruelty is unacceptable. Rule of law. Rules in general.

Nothing that the SS didn’t also do with the property of Jews and other targets of the Nazi regime, so this should be zero surprise. Fascists will do fascist things.

Recruitment standards are so low that the people being given badges are not much different than the people stealing copper wire from construction sites. Just regular low-life behavior.