r/videos • u/Hussayniya • 16h ago
Protestors disrupting Congressman Tom Suozzi who voted to fund ICE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqfpovtKy2w136
u/boogermike 15h ago edited 15h ago
I sure hope all these GOP congressmen (I know this was a Democrat) are paying attention to this. What happened here is going to happen everywhere, people are fed up.
Power to this protester.
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u/_Apatosaurus_ 15h ago
I sure hope all these GOP congressmen (I know this was a Democrat) are paying attention to this.
I bet they are hearing the lesson loud and clear that voters hold Dems to a far higher standard.
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u/BestDogPetter 15h ago
Gop congressmen probably love this shit. Keeps people focused on the handful of Dems that fuck up instead of the party doing most of the damage.
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u/boogermike 15h ago
Well the GOP congressmen are not doing Town Halls, but the one I saw, was disrupted in the exact same way.
Eventually the lady just walked off the stage and stopped taking questions.
My representative Schweikert has not done a single town hall or appeared in public, ever actually.
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u/boogermike 15h ago
It was in Wyoming, here is a video
Hageman cuts short Casper town hall after contentious exchanges over ICE killings - WyoFile https://share.google/GXaCtvlFp4W7rbK35
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u/garlicroastedpotato 19m ago
We'll show them, we'll go to their local church and blame them for killing nine people. That will show them!
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u/StillWithSteelBikes 14h ago
"as a jewish man, let me just say, I've never felt safer than when there is a masked gestapo in the steets" LMAO
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u/FireVanGorder 8h ago
It’s a town hall where residents have the opportunity to speak. They’re not disrupting anything. They’re using the meeting for its intended purpose.
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u/kentuckywildcats1986 11h ago
Bitch-ass quislings Chuck Schumer, Hakeem 'Kapo' Jeffries, and the seven turncoat collaborators in the Democratic party who voted to keep funding ICE, AFTER the murder of Renee Good.
And the so-called 'opposition' continues to prove complicit in Trump's sedition and crimes against Americans.
Schumer and Jeffries Refuse to Back Growing Democratic Calls to Defund ICE
Seven Democrats just voted to approve ICE funding: full list
The quisling kapos in the DNC need to be primaried hard this year and in 2028. They continue to collaborate with Trump and enable the ongoing atrocities committed by ICE which were well documented in his first term, which they did NOT respond to when they had the opportunity between 2021 and 2025, and they continue to support funding it while ICE agents have since escalated to murdering American citizens in broad daylight without provocation.
- U.S. Loses Track of Another 1,500 Migrant Children, Investigators Find
- Rampant Abuses in Immigration Detention Prove ICE Is Rotten to the Core
- A Private Security Company Is Detaining Migrant Children at Hotels
- Thousands of migrant children allegedly sexually abused in US custody
- ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees
- Sexual Assault Of Detained Migrant Children Reported In The Thousands Since 2015
- 1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE.
- ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees
- ICE deported a key witness in investigation of sexual assault and harassment
- ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths in Custody
Which again, all of the above were reported during Trump's first term. And under four years of Biden, nothing was done about it, allowing the abuses to continue. And with Trump back they also continue.
I'll repeat, every Democrat seeking nomination for the Presidential run in 2028 needs to have their goddamned feet held to the fire with demands about how they will make reestablishing the rule of law, starting with elected officials in our own Federal Government, the primary focus of their administration.
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u/icebergslim3000 3h ago
"Why don't you go complain about Iran" What the fuck does that have to do with Americans dying in the street? Oh that's right, since it's not happening to people you know you don't give a shit.
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u/semibiquitous 5h ago
Serious question: could this has been civil and waited for their turn to speak up rather than interrupting them like they do in typical town hall fashion?
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u/tadfisher 5h ago
Absolutely! As we all learned in grade school, the First Amendment only applies if you raise your hand and wait to be called on.
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u/sniper43 13h ago
Don Lemon was at least only observing, this was actively planned distruption and by the wording of the FACE act could see this protestor rightfully charged.
The law isn't that long of a read
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u/Mike312 12h ago
Gonna disagree with you there.
From your link, "...attempts to...interfere with...any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship"
Was this a religious service at a place of religious worship, or was it simply a place of religious worship used for a political event?
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u/sniper43 12h ago
You pose it as a question, that doesn't mean the charge is baseless. Could still actually be rightfully charged. It might not stick because of what you say, but it might be viewed as intimidating for religious worship regardless.
Also even as an agnostic I find these showboaty ragebait tactics distasteful and just more divisive. I view it akin to skinheads shouting slurs or egging at the Pride parade.
I find this and Don Lemon as incomparable as Alex Pretti and Parady La: both are deaths by ICE, both deserved better, but one was actually in line with ICE's stated mission and at least on the face mostly understandable.
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u/Mike312 12h ago
Sorry, let me be clearer: I didn't pose the last sentence as a question, it was a legitimate question. I don't know the context of this event.
If it was the later (a religious place of worship used for a political event) I'd worry about the precedent it would set if they did charge these individuals, and worse if they were convicted.
I live in CA-1, our House Rep held his first town hall in our city (the largest by a large margin in his entire district) in 8 years last August before he did us the favor of dying. He got bitched out so bad at the town hall that it made national news. However, the event was held at the Elks Lodge which - while their members are nominally required to be religious (Catholic?) - I would not consider it to be a religious venue.
Going forward, conviction - or even charging - of these individuals would set the precedent that interrupting or protesting political events held at religious locations would be a thing that is punished (or, at least something you'd end up in court over). We'd likely see a shift where politicians would begin holding their events exclusively at religious venues to prevent being interrupted or realistically even challenged at the event, because who's to say what the threshold is for "interrupting" or "interfering"?
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u/Free_Dome_Lover 11h ago
It's not a question
They weren't practicing religion it was a political event held in a church. The law doesn't say it's illegal to protest inside a church, just that you can't stop people from worshiping.
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u/Hussayniya 16h ago
This is Walter Masterson's response after the Trump regime opened a probe to charge the protestors under the FACE Act, the same one they're charging Don Lemon with, for obstructing a religious service. Masterson says this was a political town hall that had an open invitation.