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Jilly_in_VA

(13,384 posts)
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 12:06 PM Wednesday

Trump Goons Allegedly Break Ribs of Man, 67, at Kids' Party

A 67-year-old U.S. citizen allegedly suffered six broken ribs and internal bleeding when he was dragged from his car and pinned to the street by federal agents in an immigration sweep carried out in front of terrified children.

Video filmed by neighbors shows Border Patrol agents yanking him from the driver’s seat and forcing him to the ground.

Making the video public, DWRunning Club said on Instagram that the man had been driving home from a team run when he turned onto his block and found the road sealed by federal vehicles.

The clash happened on the blocked-off residential street as families gathered for a kids’ Halloween parade on Saturday. Witnesses pleaded for the agents to stop, and the man shouted, “I’ll move my car, get off of me!”

“Before he could act, they pulled him out of his car, knelt on his back… and subdued him,” the club wrote, saying the injuries required hospital treatment. The club added that the man had suffered “six broken ribs” and “internal bleeding,” and that agents “threatened to break his window” before pulling him out.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/border-patrol-thugs-allegedly-broke-ribs-of-67-year-old-member-of-dwrunning-club/

And guess who Tricia McLaughlin is blaming for all this? Yep, you got it.

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Trump Goons Allegedly Break Ribs of Man, 67, at Kids' Party (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Wednesday OP
How is this solving immigration? Johonny Wednesday #1
It's not solving anything. It's affirming that MAGA is drunk with power and out of control. Initech Wednesday #5
I haven't had a chance to turn on Nicolle Wallace today, but she is far from spineless Hekate Wednesday #7
they really are getting more blatant lapfog_1 Wednesday #2
Even if they snowybirdie Wednesday #3
That's the whole thing durablend Wednesday #6
I'm having dark thoughts against the goons. sakabatou Wednesday #4
So, do they get dress uniforms now with shiny jackboots? Must be such a thrill terrorizing children... Hekate Wednesday #8

Johonny

(24,953 posts)
1. How is this solving immigration?
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 12:08 PM
Wednesday

No one asks him that shit because the American media is spineless shitheads like Jake Tapper.

Initech

(106,725 posts)
5. It's not solving anything. It's affirming that MAGA is drunk with power and out of control.
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 04:22 PM
Wednesday

They need to be stopped.

Hekate

(100,006 posts)
7. I haven't had a chance to turn on Nicolle Wallace today, but she is far from spineless
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 04:34 PM
Wednesday

Just sayin’

lapfog_1

(31,366 posts)
2. they really are getting more blatant
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 12:11 PM
Wednesday

in an attempt to cause a violent reaction to their provocations.

snowybirdie

(6,430 posts)
3. Even if they
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 12:34 PM
Wednesday

are told by courts to stop, Trump has unleashed monsters into our society. Will we end up with roving gangs with bloodlust?

sakabatou

(45,459 posts)
4. I'm having dark thoughts against the goons.
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 12:38 PM
Wednesday

If I said them aloud, I'd be breaking DU rules.

Hekate

(100,006 posts)
8. So, do they get dress uniforms now with shiny jackboots? Must be such a thrill terrorizing children...
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 05:20 PM
Wednesday

…and kicking in the ribs of senior citizens — do they have to take drugs first to achieve the proper state of mind?

We used to wonder, we American post-war children, what happened to the German people? How could they have done what they did, how could the bystanders let it happen? There must have been something uniquely awful about them — and it would never happen here.

My late MIL used to say that, from the perspective of her family and others she knew growing up in Vienna, it was unbelievable that the Germans could change like this. They were leaders in Science, Medicine, Music, Literature, the Arts. (Sound familiar?)

Yet as the Anschluss approached, she was the one who organized passports, train tickets, and necessary papers to get her parents, her two married sisters, and their families, out of Austria and into Belgium. (I can’t remember where her brothers were at that point) Even so, few of the family survived the Nazi takeover of Belgium.

How? Why? Well, we are finding out now, aren’t we?

Very close to my 100,000th post. I’ll let this stand for now.

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