Battlefield-equipped #immigration 'agents'—

A former #US Marine, now NYT reporter, does a good job in the video below explaining the heavy artillery of the 'agents'— combat material the reporter saw in his previous military tours overseas (e.g., when he was deployed in Afghanistan).

The reporter explains the heavy equipment used by 'agents' as they busted into a suburban home in #Minneapolis, past a woman in scrubs holding a phone, with children at the home.

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Federal 'agents' arrested the woman's husband but released him 4 days later when a judge said they violated the man's 4th Amendment Constitutional rights.

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https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010669560/how-battlefield-tech-was-used-in-minneapolis.html

Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis

Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Minneapolis.