Two people in little Cape Coral Florida hauled away by ICE for making threats.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

This is apparently just the beginning in this Republican area near Naples. For one family they drove up in a tank at 6am and broke down the door of some family with guns drawn whose 74 year old grandfather had supposedly posted “threats” to ICE. In a separate incident, another person posted something on bluesky. They put both of them in detention centers. They just let the 74 year old man go back home after a few days but he will have a court case coming up. They pointed a green laser at the daughter and questioned her in a car and made everyone plus the children leave the house while they ripped it apart. If they start driving tanks in exclusive areas in Naples, we will see a bunch of rich Republicans raising hell.

[Blues Heron]

1. Link?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. They tore out the families cameras, taped over them, and turned them around.

https://www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/dhs-raid-cape-coral-immigration-florida/69203938

CAPE CORAL, Fla. —
A family's home in Cape Coral was raided by federal officers and cameras were covered during a Department of Homeland Security raid to serve a warrant to detain a man accused of making threats online Thursday morning.
This happened at a home on Chiquita Boulevard around 6 a.m. Gulf Coast News spoke to Anna Giancola, who owns the home and said they were awakened by Homeland Security putting a hole through their door.
"This is the country we live in nowadays," Anna said. "So, we don't knock on the door and say, hey, I got a warrant for your arrest. Let me just shoot at your door and put a tank in your front yard and go in and break in and scare the living daylights out of your family."
Anna said she did not receive a warrant until a hole was put in the door. According to Homeland Security, they had a warrant to detain Joseph Giancola Jr., her father, who was accused of making threats online.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that a search warrant was executed and Giancola was detained for threats made to ICE.

[Blues Heron]

6. Thanks

[Nictuku]

34. I would like to see the post that was considered a threat.

[ForgedCrank]

2. Making death threats

especially toward federal law enforcement agents, is generally ill advised. This would be the expected reaction.

Link to what I could find:

https://www.wgcu.org/section/immigration/2025-11-01/cape-coral-man-arrested-by-hsi-for-alleged-death-threats-made-online-against-ice-officers

[kerry-is-my-prez]

7. The expected reaction should be a couple of cops or FBI agents knocking on the door and questioning the grandpa.

[ForgedCrank]

11. And that

is pretty much the fastest way to get shot if you are LEO.
This wasn't someone shoplifting candy bars. They made death threats, it's kinda serious. Can't believe I have to keep defending common sense. It's ludicrous.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

23. It's not smart to be making threats but if they haul away every grouchy old man in Florida.

Sounds like something my 90 year-old dad would say or write if he wasn’t a Republican. This guy did not make a direct threat - more like a third party should do it, not that he was going to do it. It doesn’t say he had any weapons when they searched the house, Much ado about nothing IMO.

[ForgedCrank]

25. I'm sorry,

but I'm not going to go to the mat arguing basic and obvious wrongs. I won't make excuses for people who do dumb crap like this.
It's illegal, and it's a felony. And in this current environments temperature, it's a really stupid thing to be doing and it will be taken seriously by the authorities. There is no common sense defense of that sort of behavior.

[TommyT139]

35. Unless they are arresting magats who make similar threats

... they're not doing it because it's a crime. They're doing it because it's a threat against the Icestapo.

Meanwhile, death threats against Dems are "just kidding," "sarcasm," or "trolling."

Stupid? Sure. It was stupid for that guy to post that.

But those fascists are not enforcing the law.

[58Sunliner]

30. Defending a tank destroying a home on suspicious postings online is not defensible.

The man is 72, how do we know he doesn't need a psych eval and have cognitive issues? Just destroying a home because an aged man posts threats is vicious.

[ForgedCrank]

33. There was

no Tank. There was no home destroyed. A felony warrant was served. A high-risk entry was made because this was a high risk incident. And being 72 years old does not forgive such behavior. In fact, he of all people should know better by now.
Death threats are serious, stop making excuses for it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Funny how only threats against the regime are investigated and charged these days. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. There is no picture or video of any TANK. "Anna" said "tank" and you swallowed it. Your 2 minute video has nothing. . nt

[ForgedCrank]

12. WTF are

you going on about? I fell for nothing. I posted a link to what I could find. The OP mentioned a damned tank, not me.
FFS man

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Sorry. My mistake. I did not notice you were not the original poster. . . . nt

[ForgedCrank]

21. Ok yea,

sorry I jump the threshold now and again. I get attacked for almost every post I make so it's a knee-jerk thing now.
Sorry

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. You're fine. You were right to point it out. Your post might be a bit harsh, but it is within bounds :) . . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Tank? Link? I suspect you are exaggerating unnecessarily for no good reason. Tank? . . . . nt

[kerry-is-my-prez]

5. I kid you not - a tank. This is the new USA.,.

See the link above.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. There is NO TANK in your link. . . . . nt

[BeerBarrelPolka]

14. Here you can see the vehicle

link:

Armored vehicle with battering ram it looks like.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. No you can't. There is a ram, but NO TANK in your video or the other one. . . . nt

[BeerBarrelPolka]

16. Knock it off

right now!!! I posted VEHICLE. Knock off your attitude towards people on this site! I posted a video so you could see what actually happened.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Thanks for posting it, but you can't see the vehicle and it does not support OP's sensational claim of "tank"

Though there is some extra info in the video beyond the first video, there is no video of a "tank" or even of the vehicle. Just the ram, which was in the first video.

I'm not going to stop my insistence on truth and accuracy. It is one of the things that sets DU apart from other sites and that difference has been remarked upon by commentators outside of DU.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. I see a vehicle, which looks like some armored thing, at 2:22 into the video.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Thanks. There is some kind of vehicle at 2:22, but it is definitely not a tank. . . . nt

[kerry-is-my-prez]

24. I've seen photos of armored trucks/cars with tops that flip open used by ICE in Chicago.

That might be what they used.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

26. Those

are probably what's called police tanks.

[hunter]

27. People often use "tank" as a generic term for any similarly shaped armored vehicle.

It's sort of funny because "tank" was originally a word used to keep the development of these land battleships secret. The metal fabricators who were working on them could say they were building "tanks," as in fuel or water tanks, an answer so mundane it pretty much ended further inquiry.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Yes they do and it is a mistake. Thx for anecdote. Winston Churchill promoted their construction in WW1. . . nt

[kerry-is-my-prez]

29. You could do it in a more tactful way.

I’m the one who posted tank. We don’t know if there was a tank or not, basically. ICE has been using large armored vehicles that have tops that flip open that is usually used by the military. I could see where someone might call that a tank. This was used at a peaceful protest

?si=PiyhJhK4c7NQl4av

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. We do know it was not a tank. A poster proved it. Police riot vehicle is radically different from a tank

A police riot vehicle. One is seen at 2:22 in the other poster's video.


A tank. Would not be mistaken for a police riot vehicle.

[The Madcap]

31. Jeff Goldblum's older brother?

Ok...I know that was bad...

[Deuxcents]

10. Cape Coral is not Naples, Florida, but both are republican as they come. They are in different counties

Naples is in Collier n Cape Coral is in Lee county.

[hunter]

20. Trump is unhappy they were only threats.

He's trying to provoke a violent response and would like to have the corpses of a few ICE "heroes" to parade around with.

Maybe he should have given this guy a bazooka before the raid. Blowing up an ICE armored vehicle and SUV or two would make great television.