But other people do. Here’s a horrific example of a door dash gone incredibly wrong, wrapped up in some wry commentary by Reese Waters.
For those who’d rather not watch a video for 38 minutes (I don’t blame you, although I do find Waters entertaining), the short summary is that a family in Minneapolis ordered a food delivery through door dash, and ICE followed the delivery driver, and arrested one of the people in the car (his whereabouts is currently unknown, ICE tends to whisk people away without documenting their actions). The woman driver fled into the home of the family waiting for the food, and she was clearly distraught and crying and trying to communicate through the wails in Spanish.
The woman in the house is also greatly distressed. She’s in this house, most of her children are away at school, she’s got one child there who is less then two years old. She doesn’t know what to do. She is freaking out as ICE agents surround her home and start pounding on the door, and her first impulse is to get rid of this stranger who has made her family a target.
I can’t blame her. This creepy squad of armed vigilantes are wandering about in her yard, hands on their guns, demanding that she surrender the woman she is protecting. She is more concerned about her child, and starts to lead the weeping woman to the door. You can hear her resolve gradually steeling itself, though; she demands a signed warrant before she’ll let her go.
They don’t have one. Of course they don’t have one. They’re just cruising around looking for brown people to intimidate.
The neighbors are coming outside after hearing all the commotion. They are blowing whistles (the latest thing to sound the alarm about ICE thugs, rather like what prairie dogs do when predators are around. I should probably get a whistle, too). The woman is now yelling, threatening ICE with exposure. The cowards back down, and start retreating to their cars. Hooray for community action! Teach ICE to fear us.
One thing we all have to work on is how to get that community support, beyond just blowing whistles. During this event, the homeowner is on the phone, having called 911 to get help. The police dispatcher is worse than useless, advising her to simply surrender the woman — they’re not there to defend every citizen, just the white English-speaking ones, and that is contemptible. Our police need to learn a lesson from Philadelphia.
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal recently made a declaration.
And so we stand here today with all those who stand against the made-up, fake, what you can call ICE, professional law enforcement, I don’t call them none of that. I call them made-up, fake, wannabe law enforcement because what they do is against not only legal law but the moral law.
Yes! That’s what I want our police to do — just shut down this invasion of armed thugs who are harrassing, detaining, and killing the citizens they are supposed to serve and protect.
I don’t know what I’d do in a similar situation. I know for sure I’d be terrified — my house has a lot of windows, and seeing those men standing around, peering through windows in their tactical gear, reminds me of scenes from a horror movie. I think I’d make sure all the doors were locked and tell them to go away, but then, we all say we’d have defended Anne Frank from the Gestapo, but apparently lots of people didn’t. I might try calling the local sheriff’s office, but this is rural America, and I don’t know what the odds are that they would actually help rather than join the besiegers.
I didn’t learn what to do from this one example. I have learned that many of us are living in a state of fear and uncertainty, just the way MAGA wants us.
We also have to be careful, because strong sheriffs have been known to turn authoritarian pretty easily.
These thugs rely on people not understanding their rights. This couple nearly gave the poor lady up after being informed by their sheriff to hand her over.
I have a whistle I got at one of the demonstrations. It fits on my key chain.
I also have a laminated card about what to do if I/we run into ICE. Know you rights, who to call, etc..
I suspect most of this won’t be too useful but it is better than nothing.
ICE is losing support rapidly everywhere.
More people want to abolish ICE than keep it.
It is still astonishing that 43% of the US population want to keep ICE around.
I would like to say that I would defend my home if the thugs tried to enter, but I am sure that if I managed to do any minor harm to one of the thugs, the rest would open fire and fill me and my home with thousands of holes.
And the right-wingers would immediately declare that it was your fault and you deserved it.
They are just racially profiling people and pounding on their doors here in the Cities. My neighborhood has many residents whose parents immigrated here from SE Asia in the wake of the Vietnam war. They go away if you tell them to leave your property, but are snatching up people in random public spaces.
I think the three nights of fires, curfews, and constant sirens following the George Floyd murder was a citizen rehearsal for the ICE siege that is now happening. We the people are righteously outraged by murderous masked goons terrorizing the people who live here on the orders of a bigot from South Dakota.
ICE is figuring out that they are the bad guy, and the residents are making sure they know they are fascist scumbags.
The first thing you do if ICE comes to your door is pull out your phone and start filming. Close the blinds.
Do not open the door.
Invoke the 4th amendment. Demand a warrant. Otherwise they are trespassing on private property.
Here is another relevant poll.
There is a large Don’t Know in this poll.
28% is close to the Crazification Factor.
Roughly 20% of the population will believe anything, no matter how crazy it is.
Creationism. The sun orbiting the earth, heliocentrism. Antivaxxers, Flat Earthers. Holocaust Deniers.