Federal Agents Stage Raid on Canal Street in New York City

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Full article at link
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/nyregion/nyc-raid-canal-st-agents-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU8.ttFC.X2jOtHWW2OlU&smid=url-share

More than 50 federal agents fanned out in the heart of Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, brushing past confused tourists and pedestrians to detain several men near Canal Street and quickly drawing dozens of protesters to the streets.

The Department of Homeland Security described the operation as “focused on criminal activity relating to selling counterfeit goods.”

.... News of the raid spread quickly on social media, leading protesters to show up and chase some of the federal agents down Lafayette Street as they traveled to the ICE offices at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. More federal agents showed up in tactical gear, along with an armored vehicle, leading to a chaotic scene as agents pushed back protesters.


.... The officers, from an array of federal agencies, detained several men who were standing on Church and Lispenard Streets, asking for their IDs and whisking them away into vans parked nearby, according to witnesses."

[lapfog_1]

1. you mean to tell me that the rusty Rolex I bought for $50

isn't real!!!!

Say it ain't so!

[cliffside]

3. It should have cost $250. :) nt

[Montauk6]

11. Probably realer than that piece of junk TSF is hawking

[FHRRK]

2. Ez target

But lame

[cliffside]

4. More from the article ...

"In recent weeks, pro-Trump social media influencers have recorded videos of African vendors on Canal Street that spread widely online, and led to calls from some users for ICE to deport the vendors.

... On Sunday, a video from Canal Street posted by Savanah Hernandez, a right-wing content creator who also met with the president, garnered more than 4 million views on X."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Thanks. The influencers and the agents' managers are racist. . . . nt

[cliffside]

9. And welcome at the WH, see the Guardian article....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/rightwing-influencers-trump-antifa

Have to give them credit for being organized and getting trump's ear.

[Skittles]

6. so

a gal named "Hernandez", pimping for a multi-felon rapist seditionist, targeting vendors.........un-fucking believable

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8. She was at the WH, former InfoWars, now with Turning Point ...

Savanah Hernandez, a former Infowars host now with Turning Point USA, lambasted White House reporters during a roundtable on antifa on Wednesday. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/rightwing-influencers-trump-antifa

I just posted the same Guardian link below, they were in Portland and Chicago too.

[Skittles]

10. she is a disgusting piece of utter shit

sickening

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7. There's more to this story - Who are the rightwing influencers filling Trump's head with visions of antifa?

Which city will they target next?

Meet the content creators whose videos from Portland and Chicago shape the president’s distorted view of reality

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/rightwing-influencers-trump-antifa

Last week’s White House roundtable on antifa was an odd affair, mainly because the supposed experts who briefed Donald Trump on antifascism were rightwing influencers who make a living filming themselves confronting leftwing protesters.

Videos of protests in Portland and Chicago produced by these conservative content creators have long shaped the president’s distorted view of reality.

Although the influencers all describe themselves as “independent journalists”, they all frame leftwing protesters as nefarious or ridiculous in their videos, and eight of the 11 are current or former employees of Turning Point USA, the conservative advocacy organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk.

.... “Their job”, the extremism researcher Jared Holt said on his podcast, “is to make these viral clips that they can show on Fox News and scare your grandpa into thinking antifa is on the verge of a mass slaughter, and that Mr Trump is the only man who can put an end to this by sending the military to go crack some skulls”.


This is in the NYT article ...

"Nick Shirley, who identifies himself as an independent journalist and who met with President Trump at the White House this month for a round table on Antifa, posted a video from Canal Street on Sept. 25 titled: “I Confronted Dangerous Migrant Scammers in NYC.”"