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Trump's Masked Thugs Open Fire at Family's Car in California

Trump's Masked Thugs Open Fire at Family's Car in California

Trump’s federal agents are claiming they had to open fire on a family’s car in San Bernardino, California on Saturday, but the family’s cell phone footage tells a different story.

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Trump’s federal agents are claiming they had to open fire on a family’s car in San Bernardino, California on Saturday, but the family’s cell phone footage tells a different story.

Trump’s seeming Gestapo stopped a family in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles, for unknown reasons.

The masked thugs were caught on camera refusing to identify themselves, and then when the driver wouldn’t step out of the car seemingly because he didn’t know who these masked men were surrounding his car, an “officer” punched through the driver’s side window, shattering the glass.

The driver sped off, and the agents fired into the family’s car.

The Trump Department of Homeland Security claims they were “forced” to fire shots into the car in “self-defense” because the driver ran them down, but the video footage does not show the driver hitting an agent.

Instead, it shows the driver hitting the gas seconds after the agents shattered the glass of the window, and speeding off, quickly followed by “three loud pops.”

The family told NBC Los Angeles that the Customs and Border Patrol agents failed to produce a judicial warrant and refused to identify themselves, and DHS did not tell the news agency whether or not they had a judicial warrant (read: they did not).

ICE agents are trained on using ruses to trick people:

Yes. ICE agents are taught that they are allowed to use ruses (with very few limits) and are trained on how to conduct a ruse. As part of their training, ICE agents are given suggestions of possible ruses and additional training on how to trick and confuse people.

ICE agents are specifically trained on how to redirect focus and control a conversation. They are taught how to use conversational techniques to confuse people about who they are, what their goals are, and to make people feel like it’s safe or even necessary to let them inside the home or share information with them.

NBC LA shared a video about the incident on Instagram:

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“In the cellphone video shot from inside the truck, the family could be heard demanding identification from the agents. Despite the agents' attempt to force the people to get out of the truck, everyone stayed inside. The video then captured the agents shattering car windows,” NBC LA reported.

"In the course of the incident the suspect drove his car at the officers and struck two CBP officers with his vehicle. Because of the subjects forcing a CBP officer to discharge his firearm in self-defense," a spokesperson for the department told NBC Los Angeles.

No Judicial Warrant

None of this would be happening if Trump’s “agents” were asked to follow the procedures police officers have to follow. People have a right to ask what they are being stopped for and to ask for identification. They also have a right to ask if ICE has a judicial warrant.

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