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pnwmom

(110,001 posts)
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 04:41 PM Friday

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: 'You've got no rights.' He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

Source: The Guardian

On the morning of 2 May, teenager Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was driving to his landscaping job in North Palm Beach with his mother and two male friends when they were pulled over by the Florida highway patrol.

In one swift moment, a traffic stop turned into a violent arrest.

A highway patrol officer asked everyone in the van to identify themselves, then called for backup. Officers with US border patrol arrived on the scene.

Video footage of the incident captured by Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old US citizen, appears to show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men*, two of whom are undocumented. They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest



And the US citizen is now represented by a lawyer, who released the video.
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: 'You've got no rights.' He secretly recorded his brutal arrest (Original Post) pnwmom Friday OP
"$30,000 bonus." -- I guess that's the bounty. I wonder if/when it will become "dead or alive." PSPS Friday #1
Yes, it does look like a bounty PatSeg Friday #3
They plan to pay what would be MILLIONS in bounties if their volume projections are correct. forgotmylogin Friday #5
Notice he was convicted of filming the arrests muriel_volestrangler Friday #2
I smell a civil rights suit orangecrush Friday #4
For the record you burn in hell not rot in hell. twodogsbarking Friday #6

PSPS

(14,750 posts)
1. "$30,000 bonus." -- I guess that's the bounty. I wonder if/when it will become "dead or alive."
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 05:01 PM
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PatSeg

(50,668 posts)
3. Yes, it does look like a bounty
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 06:32 PM
Friday

That might explain so much of the excessive force and unreasonable apprehension of people without just cause. They're looking for the bounty.

I've really been trying to wrap my head around some of these "agents" - who are they, what is their story, and where did they come from? It is starting to look like they're basically mercenaries and bounty hunters, not to mention poorly trained.

forgotmylogin

(7,910 posts)
5. They plan to pay what would be MILLIONS in bounties if their volume projections are correct.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:27 PM
Friday

But we can't fund school lunches or NPR.

Great.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,220 posts)
2. Notice he was convicted of filming the arrests
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 05:05 PM
Friday
Laynez-Ambrosio was charged with obstruction without violence and sentenced to 10 hours of community service and a four-hour anger management course. While in detention, he said, police threatened him with charges if he did not delete the video footage from his phone, but he refused.

Scarola, his lawyer, said the charges were retaliation for filming the incident. “Kenny was charged with filming [and was] alleged to have interfered with the activities of law enforcement,” he explained. “But there was no intended interference – merely the exercise of a right to record what was happening.”

The secret police's methods must remain secret. And profitable.
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