Federal agents shoot at family in vehicle

[LiberalArkie]

Last edited Sun Aug 17, 2025, 02:18 PM - Edit history (1)

Video shows the family fleeing after masked and unidentified men attempted to detain them and firing three gun shots at the passenger side door behind where the son was sitting.

lataco.com/agents-shoot...

By @afroxander.bsky.social
Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social

— L.A. TACO (@lataco.bsky.social) 2025-08-17T05:35:07.623Z

[pandr32]

1. This is terrorism.

[Ping Tung]

2. Violence is the last resort of the incompetent. Isaaac Asimov

[malthaussen]

17. I've always thought that was nonsense from Ike.

Violence is the first resort of the incompetent.

-- Mal

[Initech]

3. This feels like we are at war.

Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck Fox News. Fuck everyone who made this happen.

[Emile]

4. This shit has to stop.

[Hornedfrog2000]

13. Too bad there werent any good guys with guns

I hear you can walk the streets with an AR15 and just murder people if you want. So, are we going to kyle rittenburg some of these asshole already?

[question everything]

5. Do we even know that these are Federal Agents? Could be just plain old gangs

[cbabe]

6. Thugs car jacking.

[PatSeg]

10. Not much difference these days

Just as violent and dangerous. Can't even call the cops for protection.

[MagickMuffin]

7. Donnie, the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee are watching

Call off your illegal goons now. If you insist on not following the US CONSTITUTION and have militia armies roaming the streets to terrorize your citizens then you are never going to get your precious NPP.

Such a loser. I suppose Putin told him he’s going a heck of a job.

[allegorical oracle]

14. Same reaction -- A Peace Prize? Donnie's declared war on his own country. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Highwaymen

This lack of ID has to stop.

[republianmushroom]

9. America Gestapo !

What a SHAME !

[perdita9]

11. This goes against the history of the founding of America

The British soldiers used to regularly 'disappear' colonists, refusing to even acknowledge that they'd been arrested and wouldn't reveal if they were in custody. A lot of our laws are based on these incidents. Go to the website for your county jail and you should be able to enter in the name of an inmate and see what floor they're being held on or if they're out for a medical appointment or court hearing.

You HAVE to be able to see if they are in custody and where they are located. This is American law.

These masked goons aren't even identifying themselves. How is someone in a car supposed to know if it's a legitimate federal agent stopping them for a lawful reason or just some nut looking to kidnap them?

[twodogsbarking]

12. Murders will happen and the victims will be blamed.

[tazcat]

15. Let's not forget the rapes going on

[IronLionZion]

16. Agents of the state shooting at unarmed civilians in the US

remember when the GOP claimed to be against that sort of thing?

[malthaussen]

18. Hadda happen sometime.

After all, unlawfully entering the US is a capital crime.

-- Mal

[LiberalArkie]

19. A misdemeanor

Unlawfully entering the U.S. is considered a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1325. It is classified as a misdemeanor for the first offense, punishable by up to six months of imprisonment and a fine of up to $250.

[malthaussen]

21. Yep. But that's never stoped cops from killing anyone.

Selling loose cigarettes was a misdemeanor, too.

-- Mal

[ReRe]

20. I call it "Legal Vigilantism"

Total unaccountable home grown terrorism, replete with no masks or identification of any kind.

[mackdaddy]

22. It seems that these bully takeovers are not happening in states with lax gun laws.

Almost all the cities such as LA, DC, NY etc have very strict gun laws so the chances of the targets being armed themselves are much lower.

Some of this is red states vs blue states, but Ohio for example have (idiotic) permit-less concealed carry laws passed a few years ago.

Maybe armed masked men with amazon special vests and generic patches demanding YOU identify yourself might not go over too well. I have sat of a couple of criminal case juries over the years. I would have a hard time convicting someone of defending themselves in these cases.

Of course big balls getting carjacked means a military takeover of the capitol city. But an actual domestic terrorist attack on a government building like the CDC which had the building riddled with over 200 shots and a police officer murdered... not so much.