Photographer Job Garcia, a US citizen, seeks recompense after reportedly being tackled and thrown to the ground
A US citizen is seeking $1m in recompense from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies after being arrested by officials last month when filming an immigration raid at a Home Depot store.
Job Garcia, a 37-year-old a photographer and PhD student at Claremont Graduate University, was tackled, thrown to the ground, arrested and detained for over 24 hours, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (Maldef) said. The advocacy group is representing Garcia.
The arrest of immigrants has escalated nationwide, notably at Home Depot sites, where undocumented laborers in particular gather in parking lots outside branches of the store chain, waiting to be picked up for casual work.
I hope he wins
Should be a slam dunk lawsuit, right? It’s not illegal to film, only to be brown.
Hope he wins and it could pay off his tuition.
I don’t know about the million dollars but the right to film in public and to film public officials while they are doing their jobs is covered by the first amendment’s freedom of the press. It’s gone to SCOTUS multiple times and been upheld and strengthened each time. Not saying that there’s no way this particular SCOTUS would overturn those rulings but it would be a huge deal and seriously negatively affect not individuals but a bunch of major corporations so that at least would probably give them some pause.
Good, there shoukd be huge penalties for fucking with journalism
They got a nice new budget i hope he gets a super fat chunk of it.
I feel like we should know who these ice agents are and have constant protests outside their homes. They shouldn’t be able to sleep soundly at night
Nah they deserve the most sound sleep, the type that comes with a bottle through the window and a claymore in front of the door.
I hope Stephen Miller’s toilet paper turns to sandpaper every time he tries to use it.
Edit:
Apologies for accidentally cursing Steve Miller
Stephen, not Steve… Steve Miller is a decent band and should not be mistaken for that sweaty fascist
Understood. Correcting
I guess another option is to use drones to record ICE terrorist activities.
Drone are trackable btw. They used to have DJI Aeroscope, they don’t officially sell it now, but they could still sell it in secret.
One or two people doing it is fine, but if it become a trend, they will implement a no-drone zone via executive order (which is probably legal btw), then jam them or shoot at it. And they then have a legal pretense (not that they need a legal pretense anyways) to triangulate the signals and find you and throw you in a concentration camp.
I’m thinking more of a binocular attached to camera and record from far away type of thing. Very discreet, no propeller noises. All you need is a clear line of sight.
Don’t buy DJI.
Non-DJI still emit radiowaves.
drones are trackable
Not if you have a phantom II from back when they had a GPS toggle on the controller ;)
Still trackable.
Radiowaves, my friend.
Ham radios don’t have GPS and those amateurs will hunt you down if you mess with them.
The authorities can definitely pinpoint signals.
I mean unless you start using those tiny fiber optic cables to control it like they do in ukraine, then they could still shoot at it then find out who bought the drone.
So you basically have to do a lot of DIY with fiber optic cables, and also anonymously buy a drone from somewhere in cash.
I still think its best to use digiscoping, since, are you gonna carry a drone everywhere?
How quick can you get the bird flying before the incident is already over and they leave?
And it forces you to be on ground level, since its very difficult to take off from insidee a building and out a tiny gap in the window (I’ve tried it before, I crash on the window frame lol). When a protest is happening, you as a citizen-journalist wanna get as far away as possible, so that you can preserve the footage and therefore use it to sway public opinion. Find a good vantage point in a building somewhere with line-of-sight to a protest, set up cameras with scopes, and record from far away.
At least, that’s my opinion. You can go Ukranian FPV with fiber cabled if you are that skilled in DIY and flying drones, be my guest 😅
Ha you know your stuff. That being said, radio pinpointing takes time and I am actually very good at flying through small gaps - I was an early drone op, hence the phantom II I keep around!
You keep it stripped down in a backpack so it’s easy to move without worrying about security cam footage and you launch from tall buildings. If you’re smart you get a colleague to bring it in days prior and stash it. Biggest risk is someone catching you in the act of launching, which admittedly is very difficult to avoid 100% of the time. Not that I’d know, to be clear. It’s not like I’d fly drones near the capitol during major protests, that’d be really risky and illegal. Don’t do that ever.
I hope he’s well protected because I doubt they would hesitate to send him to Venezuela (by mistake of course!)
They’ll engage in intimidation tactics
Damn I need to take some time off work and just have my phone out recording an ICE raid, then I’ll be well on my way to not having to work… for 4 years.
You spend $250,000 a year?
