ICE Tracks Down Woman to Force Her to Delete Instagram Post
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48526310
Two ICE agents harassed a poll worker on Election Day, demanding she remove social media posts they claimed threatened federal agents, according to Syracuse.com.
Paigelynne Gonyea, a poll worker in Syracuse, New York, said she received a phone call Tuesday from two ICE agents asking to meet with her. Not wanting to meet with them alone, she invited them into her work. “I’ve seen the news, especially in Minnesota,” she said. “And I didn’t want anything to happen to me at all.”
The ICE agents arrived with copies of her social media posts and driver’s license, and handed her a warning notice alerting her that they were investigating her for allegedly threatening ICE personnel. “They tried to scare me into signing it while I was working,” she said. The agents told her to “remove and/or discontinue” the behavior, according to the notice, which Gonyea shared on Instagram.
Gonyea frequently posts about immigration on social media. She believes the investigation was prompted after she shared a news article in January identifying Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good. “I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted,” she wrote in the caption.
Gonyea did not believe that her post or caption qualified as doxxing. “I didn’t dox his personal information, such as address, phone number,” she told Syracuse.com.
Ross, who was only placed on three days of administrative leave for shooting Good in the head, chest, and arm, faced virtually no consequences for killing an innocent woman in broad daylight. It appears that federal law enforcement now view pleas for actual justice as some kind of threat.
Anyone knows where all the free speech warriors went, In the moment we need them most?
I wish this headline made it clear that these agents have not been able to force her to delete her post, not to minimize how deeply fucked up this is but just to show people that it is possible for regular folks to tell these fascist cunts "no"
I've been a poll worker since 2020. Fuck ICE. If the collective of those brown shirts got dick and ass cancer, I would not feel bad. I hope they live in misery and paranoia for the rest of their days.
GESTAPO
This is fascism, folks.
The time to buy a firearm is now. It's a whole lot harder to oppress people when they're armed.
And train with it! Guns are not magical totems -- they require some skill to use safely and effectively, and you need to build that skill.
I hope she sues their pants off
Only correct response to that:
https://youtu.be/LsqTF_Im5P4
Pathetic waste of time