NEW: Unidentified men were caught on camera today abducting a woman in front of the courthouse in Hyattsville, Maryland.

[riversedge]

The beginning starts with all just talking standing by the white car.
The woman 'official' drives the car with the arrested woman sitting in the front seat--hands tied in front of her.
The person filming follows the 2 men to their car and truck. she is filming all the way. strange. I really do not know what to think of it.


NEW: Unidentified men were caught on camera today abducting a woman in front of the courthouse in Hyattsville, Maryland. One of the men can be seen assaulting a passerby while she was on the phone with police describing the scene.

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[Bayard]

1. Very suspicious....

No badges, no I.D.'s, nothing. More telling--no masks, so no usual uniform. Either this woman was coming from an immigration hearing, or kidnapped for human trafficking.

[PatSeg]

18. Maybe they're civilian bounty hunters?

Certainly looks different from what we usually see in these videos.

[NJCher]

20. now that's a scary thought

It sounds like the total low-life method they would use.

Search this: "Maryland bounty hunter laws" and you will see they allow any old slob to go out and be a bounty hunter.

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Maryland Bounty Hunter School and License Requirements
Although bounty hunters are allowed to operate in Maryland, no license is needed and no laws are in place governing their activities.
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I believe you're on to something, PatSeg.

[PatSeg]

26. It definitely fits a lot of what we're seeing

Plus ICE is being given some pretty ridiculous quotas to fill, so hiring civilian bounty hunters and paying hefty sign-on bonuses could speed things up. Even more points if you provide your own vehicle and weapons. Cheaper than providing uniforms, guns, and government cars.

In my opinion, this is probably the primary reason so many of them cover their faces.

[NJCher]

34. and here's another one

good points about the incentives.

Here's another one: did you see the story that trump's bill has billions to hire more ICE agents?

Bet they're telling them that if they operate independently for now, they'll be in line for a nice federal position with insurance and all that good stuff.

[PatSeg]

35. That makes sense

I have a feeling a lot of these guys were probably desperate to get any kind of decent paying job. I'm trying to imagine what kind of NDA they had to sign.

[justaprogressive]

3. A portable Television studio

in everyone's hand. Lady is right, thug assaulted her,

the verbal abuse alone would have been enough for her to bring charges,,,,

[applegrove]

4. They are neophytes to policework or bounty hunters.

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I would like to know how they got records of the undocumented woman with a court-date? How do they know what she looked like? And where she was going to be? I mean if they are bounty hunters, or piano movers on sabatical who have been deputized, where did they get the intel?

[IcyPeas]

11. This

Who is feeding them these names and whereabouts? An accomplice in the court system getting a cut of the bounty?

AND KUDOS TO THAT WOMAN and the person filming. I wouldn't have the guts to do what she did.

[SSJVegeta]

5. They realllly dont want to talk to the police

Fucking cowards.

[NJCher]

21. that says something

right there.

(realllly dont want to talk to the police)

[Norbert]

6. I good way for a rapist to pick up their victims.

and if she used pepper spray they would walk and she would be charged with assault.

[dalton99a]

7. It's Miller's Gestapo trying to fill their 3,000-per-day quota

[CrispyQ]

8. I knew it would be bad but I didn't think it would go this bad this fast.

I'm simply stunned. At all of it. And I'm stunned at what I perceive as a lack of concern from the Democratic Party. There are several one-offs, AOC & Bernie, Chris Murphy, Jamie Raskin, Eric Swalwell, & some other, but where's the unified voice of rage? I read through an FB post of Senator Hickenlooper's this morning. It was a a few weeks old, but there were a ton of comments asking & pleading the dems to do more, to speak out more, to show more fight.

On the subject of recording scenes like this, I bought an audio/video recorder about the size of a TV remote that I keep clipped on my visor. It was less than $50 so I don't have to risk my phone or go searching for it in my purse in the backseat. Know the laws in your state regarding recording, though.

[soldierant]

13. I, on the other hand, am somewhat surprised

that is it isn't already worse.

[PatSeg]

19. What a great idea

Much safer and more inconspicuous than a cell phone.

[Cirsium]

22. Yes

It has gone really bad really quickly. Indeed, where's the unified voice of rage?

[Snarkoleptic]

9. Alternative link for Musk haters, like me-

https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/1lmdta2/ice_conducting_arrests_outside_of_maryland/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. Yeah, we just sit here and watch these videos and we don't do anything

Don’t misunderstand what I mean, I’m included in this, but what I am saying is the commensurate response to what is happening is a physical and massive revolt. That would end the ice operations and mega, and this administration and those Supreme Maga justices, I’m not suggesting how it would end them, but either they are ended or we are ended.

[KPN]

12. These assholes look like bouncers -- certainly not public servants or even public safety officers. This is what

happens when you elect a mobster as president.

[mikeysnot]

14. They should really lay off the roids

[Figarosmom]

15. If they are using their own

Personal cars barf all over inside or pee on their seats.

[pfitz59]

16. Nacht und nebel

Sowing terror one kidnapping at a time. SCrOTUS says even native-born citizens are at risk. I don't see an easy exit from this madness.

[NJCher]

23. one could be for

blue states or any others, for that matter, to enact laws and licensing plus mandatory education and training for bounty hunters. See my post above regarding Maryland's:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220439422#post20

[jmowreader]

30. The problem with that is,

“Bounty Hunter” is slang for Bail Enforcement Agent - the people bail bondsmen hire to catch people who skipped out on the bail the bondsmen put up. Since these guys aren’t doing that, our current Supreme Court would say bounty hunter laws don’t apply to them.

[NJCher]

33. that's no problem

it's just a matter of saying it the right way in the court papers.

[milestogo]

17. Are the police even going to help you out any more?

I really don't know whose side they are on.

[NJCher]

24. in my state

they are very busy sitting in the shade in some out of the way place texting.

See it all the time.

You can call for help and you get the answer that the officers are all busy at the moment.

[TnDem]

25. A little info

These people that are doing the handcuffing, are installing a "belly chain" and what is usually colloquially called a "hook up". That means, there are a separate individual handcuff attached to the belly chain on each side that basically hold a person's arms down to their side without having to have them behind their back with handcuffs.

This type of restraint set-up is usually reserved for compliant, non-aggressive suspects or routine inmate court movement.

[3Hotdogs]

27. Wouldn't I.C.E. shithooks be driving with Fed license plates?

I think she should file an assault and battery charge.

[TnDem]

29. Yes, but

I don't think that's ICE....It looks like a fugitive warrant team to me. She also looks like she knew it was legit.

[chia]

32. At the very end of the video, the Ford truck has DHS plates. I don't think any of the other plates were official.

[Ritabert]

28. No way are those guys legitimate

[barbtries]

31. jeans and t-shirts?

how the FUCK is anyone supposed to know who these terrorists are??