Guy with walkie-talkie and two associates, from the jogger's video.
A Black man out for a jog down leafy VFW Parkway in West Roxbury today reports he was stopped by three guys who got out of an SUV and tried to ask him questions and asked for his ID, at least until he took out his phone and began recording them - after they showed him badges that read "ICE" [See video].
Then, Bena Apreala reports, through a posting in the Keep Roslindale Quirky Facebook group, he asked "we're all set, sir?" and all three replied "yeah" and one told him to "enjoy his run," and he began to walk away. But then, one of the men began pointing a walkie-talkie at him and asked, "Do you have any tattoos on your left or right arms to confirm?"
He responded, "Am I free to go?" They didn't answer this time, but he again began to walk away, this time adding, "If I'm free to go then I'm not showing you anything, thank you. Have a great day guys."
Across the parkway, somebody began recording the scene as well.
According to the posting by his partner, the men pulled up, got out and said they wanted to ask him some questions:
He asked them if they were BPD and they said no and showed him their official badges. They said he fit a description of someone they were investigating and asked for his name and ID.
She added:
When Ben learned they were ICE he said “I’m not who you’re looking for I was born and raised in Boston” and they replied “that’s not all we do”. They were mostly civil except at first he said he wasn’t giving them any info and if he was free to go and they said no until they can confirm his identity. Once he told him his name and where he lived they were more civil.
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What's in his tummy pack?
By Sock_Puppet
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 6:59pm
The lunch his mom packed?
These schmoes are the worst excuse for law enforcement I've ever seen. I would also like to believe they're suburban supremacists cosplaying ICE. Because if ICE has dug that far down in the barrel for employees...
The heartbreak in that mans voice is palpable.
By bulgingbuick
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 4:57pm
If you can watch that and defend it, then we are a broken country. Makes me sick.
sadness. but i also hate that
By schneidz
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 5:02pm
sadness. but i also hate that it was shot in vertical aspect ratio.
Couple things
By adamg
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 5:34pm
I'm sure the last thing on his mind during something like that is holding his phone sideways (you really have to think to do that). Also, while UHub is hardly at the forefront of anything, even here, I've noticed that most visitors are now coming in via phones (specifically phones, not tablets) and most people tend to look at their phones vertically, so as much as I love that old friends-don't-let-friends-do-vertical-video video, I have to accept that reality.
ICE or not, hope they're found dead in a ditch
By pcannon
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 7:05pm
Alternatively, will take them waking up to their bedrooms in flames. Secret state security forces or wannabe try-hards, let them all suffer the same fate.
Sure these guys really are
By Westie guy
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 7:20pm
Sure these guys really are from ICE? Not just a bunch of idiots looking to have some fun?
"That's not all we do."
By Kathode
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 8:30pm
Are you kidding me? What else do they do besides intercept people without identifying themselves?
It’s ICE you tinfoil freaks
By anon
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 8:46pm
Go to twitter and search ICE Lynn. Filter by photos, same bald guy, same vehicle. Three days ago.
Adam, your mental stability is sleeping bro.
Vehicle looks the same, but
By anon
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 11:44pm
Vehicle looks the same, but the Lynn bald guy is a little skinnier and has markings on his vest that this guy doesn’t.
Adam reports and we decide. On the other hand, why is it that
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 10/07/2020 - 8:22am
free market, pro "law & order" republican business owners employ the "illegal" immigrants ICE is seeking to detain? The irony of seeing blue lives matter flags outside a business that employs the undocumented is emulating the Trump brand.
I took a look at the pics and video on Twitter
By ChrisInEastie
Wed, 10/07/2020 - 9:56am
And you're totally right.
They probably just outgrew the POLICE/FEDERAL AGENT vests they wore in Lynn, what with each guy apparently gaining 10-15 lbs overnight and all, so had to stop by an army & navy store to grab some backups on the way down from NH...errr....I mean to VFW.
GTFO anon bootlicker.
West Roxbury city councilor reacts
By adamg
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 10:12pm
Wow, O’Malley taking a stand,
By Mont
Wed, 10/07/2020 - 12:15am
Whoa, not many things are so completely one-sided that Matt O’Malley will actually speak definitively. Surely he’ll back pedal after a couple old goats call him tomorrow and tell him they support all law enforcement, real and fake. He represents them too, after all.
Inspired by Don the Con
By Daan
Tue, 10/06/2020 - 11:42pm
ICE is already legally capable of executing police powers within 100 miles of an international border. This doesn't stop them from acting outside the law by acting outside their jurisdiction.
As Trump politicizes every Federal agency that affects his ability to "rule" he, early on, politicized ICE. It now is his open secret police charged with harassing anyone deemed worth of their attention.
Given that Trump's supporters believe in domestic terror, violence, bigotry, harassment, etc. there is no surprise that Trump bigots would pretend to be ICE agents so that they can enjoy the sadistic pleasure of harassing a black man.
Whoever those guys are that harassed the black guy
By mplo
Wed, 10/07/2020 - 1:13am
who was jogging along the VFW Parkway, they're vicious and nasty, and have to be stopped before they harass other people.
Clarification
By perruptor
Wed, 10/07/2020 - 7:42am
In case anyone's not aware, the international border nearest to W. Roxbury isn't Canada, it's the MA coast. So, way less than 100 miles.
They have been doing this for 20 years. (DHS/ICE)
By Pete Nice
Wed, 10/07/2020 - 8:28am
This one just happened to get videotaped.
Not quite
By perruptor
Wed, 10/07/2020 - 11:13am
There was neither a DHS nor an ICE in 2000.
There were all sorts of agencies
By Pete Nice
Wed, 10/07/2020 - 11:29am
That would have picked this type of case up (assuming it is a wanted person)
DEA, INS, US Marshalls, IRS, FBI, etc.
Not what you said
By perruptor
Wed, 10/07/2020 - 1:13pm
None of those are the they that you named. Further, as bad as the INS was (I could tell you stories), the DHS and its subsidiary ICE are much worse. So, they have not been doing this for 20 years.
Holy fuck
By Pete Nice
Wed, 10/07/2020 - 1:18pm
One agency has been around 17 years, 10 months and 12 days and the other has been around 17 years, 10 months and 12 days.
And one of them simply changed their name. The same people weren't just fired on that magical date in March of 2003.
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