Federal immigration agents arrested an immigrant as he was leaving court on the first day of his trial in Massachusetts on Thursday, with a judge now holding one agent in contempt for disrupting due process.

Plainclothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents showed up at the court in Boston and took Wilson Martell-Lebron without prior notice, according to The Boston Globe.

  • skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Unlawful arrests lead to people fighting back, and officers getting hurt. Not a good direction to be going.

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      20 hours ago

      Sure would suck if the ICE agent, Brian Sullivan, who was held in contempt by the judge and for whom a bench warrant was issued, was beaten with a bat until compliant with being arrested and dragged into custody. Would just be a travesty.

    • tane@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      Ice officers deserve worse than just to be hurt tbf