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cbabe

(5,944 posts)
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 11:40 AM 12 hrs ago

'This Is Our Reality': Charlotte Residents Horrified After Border Patrol Arrests Women for Honking Car Horn

https://www.commondreams.org/news/charlotte-border-patrol-arrest

‘This Is Our Reality’: Charlotte Residents Horrified After Border Patrol Arrests Women for Honking Car Horn

“Our city has gone from a thriving city to a standstill,” said one local official.

BRAD REED
Nov 18, 2025

Residents in Charlotte, North Carolina are expressing outrage after two local women were arrested for honking their car horn to alert others that US Border Patrol was in the area.

Local news station WCNC reported on Monday that the two women, who are US citizens, were taken into custody in the city’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood after Border Patrol agents pulled them over and accused them of interfering in operations by honking their horn.

Video of the incident shows masked federal agents yelling at the women and demanding that they roll down their car windows. When the women do not comply, one officer smashes through the window and then he and other officers pull them out of the vehicle.

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'This Is Our Reality': Charlotte Residents Horrified After Border Patrol Arrests Women for Honking Car Horn (Original Post) cbabe 12 hrs ago OP
Holy shit. Honking your horn now gets you arrested? Hope they sue! nt SunSeeker 12 hrs ago #1
It's Going to Get Them Paid. -NT- ruet 12 hrs ago #2
Yes Cirsium 9 hrs ago #14
Remind me--we need the Border Patrol in North Carolina for WHAT exactly? DFW 12 hrs ago #3
...but they're bringing cows now leftstreet 11 hrs ago #7
These mutherfuckers need to pay Traildogbob 11 hrs ago #4
They have qualified immunity. They won't pay a cent Arazi 9 hrs ago #12
You are correct Traildogbob 9 hrs ago #15
You seem to forget Cirsium 9 hrs ago #16
The senate needs to be held accountable for not stopping this infringement of civil rights. lindysalsagal 11 hrs ago #5
You mean by impeaching the mother-f'er? erronis 10 hrs ago #8
At what point purr-rat beauty 11 hrs ago #6
Thanks Brett NHvet 10 hrs ago #9
Not a solution Cirsium 9 hrs ago #17
More slime in the ICE machine. nt Xipe Totec 10 hrs ago #10
In Washington DC oberle 10 hrs ago #11
Next even looking disapprovingly at them will get people arrested IronLionZion 9 hrs ago #13
This is Noem's republican Gestapo at work republianmushroom 8 hrs ago #18

Cirsium

(3,165 posts)
14. Yes
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:24 PM
9 hrs ago

They may be paid, but the perpetrators don't pay any price. That's the problem.

DFW

(59,386 posts)
3. Remind me--we need the Border Patrol in North Carolina for WHAT exactly?
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 11:58 AM
12 hrs ago

Handling the several incoming flights per day from Europe?

The rest to handle the hoards of illegal Virginians and South Carolinians rushing in without valid work visas?

Traildogbob

(12,197 posts)
4. These mutherfuckers need to pay
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:15 PM
11 hrs ago

Every penny out of THIER paychecks for law suits AND fucking busted windows. Garage em for property destruction and damage. Do you know the cost of an electric side window. Fuck every God damned one of Those tin soldiers. This time coming with trump, not Nixon.
Noem for prison. Put here in an animal shelter gage for decades.

Arazi

(8,582 posts)
12. They have qualified immunity. They won't pay a cent
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:06 PM
9 hrs ago

Their goal is to stop the alerts, in that moment.

They’re succeeding

Traildogbob

(12,197 posts)
15. You are correct
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:24 PM
9 hrs ago

Crime is a business these days. Very profitable and above the law.
I consider a horn in this case as Free Speech. As much as money is.
These J6Thugs would have beat out the eyes of Paul Reveres Horse to stop him from alerting the British are coming. Stop the Alerts!

Cirsium

(3,165 posts)
16. You seem to forget
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:26 PM
9 hrs ago

You seem to forget how civil suits stopped the Nazis in Germany back in the '30s.

lindysalsagal

(22,793 posts)
5. The senate needs to be held accountable for not stopping this infringement of civil rights.
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:17 PM
11 hrs ago

purr-rat beauty

(849 posts)
6. At what point
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:30 PM
11 hrs ago

Will the sovereign citizens, Don't Tread on me types and the 2Aer's come out of the dark

Oh....haha....these fucks ARE those types

NHvet

(265 posts)
9. Thanks Brett
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 01:58 PM
10 hrs ago

I just guess these US citizens can now sue for damages and false arrest? Better bring a the BIG bags of cash. ICE doesn't have authority to detain and arrest US Citizens.

oberle

(243 posts)
11. In Washington DC
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:03 PM
10 hrs ago

they are making the families pay for towing the cars of the people they have kidnapped. I wonder what the ICEbastards are doing in other cities?

IronLionZion

(50,377 posts)
13. Next even looking disapprovingly at them will get people arrested
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:16 PM
9 hrs ago

Posting on DU will be treason.
If they don't like you or what you're doing for any reason, they'll arrest and make up some charges later if they feel like it.

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