UPDATE: Turns out this has nothing to do with Immigration. My apologies. I considered deleting the diary but decided against it. It’s still a horrendous video of people in authority doing insane things.
From the comments. Thanks to chimene:
This did NOT happen yesterday, but back at the beginning of May. At least it was this year!
www.timesledger.com/… May 4, 2017 ; Updated 11:59 am, May 5, 2017
that’s the Queen’s (NYC) Ledger article on the arrest of Melissa Alvear, US citizen, by Flushing Meadows Corona Park Dept. of Parks enforcement officers (NOT ICE) (some backup by NYC officers part-way through...). The article says Ms Alvear was (vigorously confronting) the Parks Police over their attempt to close down HER mother’s unlicenced food vending operation. The little boy is Alvear’s 7y son. There’s a much longer version of the video at the link. I expect there’s a certain amount of bias in the article as parts of it are based on the official police reports, but now we have some more concrete info anyway (who, when, where)
… NO! Here is a link www.univision.com/… to the Univision story broadcast on MAY 2! In Spanish and again, a much longer and more detailed video than the Queen’s story of May 7.
This is still a nasty incident, and I think the little boy was really scared of his mother being arrested but nobody mentioned ICE, that I noticed, in either of these two “new” videos. At the very end of the English-language one a bystander alleged Ms Alvear was pregnant, but the accompanying text (at the very end of the article) says she wasn’t.
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This is what we have come to.
Fuck you, Donald Trump.
Note: Unfortunately, there is no indication I can find of when or where this video was taken, or who it was taken by. Oddly, I haven’t even found anyone who’s retweeted or replied to the tweet asking about these things. Don’t know quite what to make of it.