Federal immigration agents seeking to detain a Honduran landscaper chased him into a Southern California surgical center and quickly found themselves in a tense standoff as clinic staff demanded to see identification and a warrant.
In a video clip of the Tuesday altercation that has spread on social media, Ontario Advanced Surgery Center staff in blue scrubs are heard telling an armed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent wearing a mask and bulletproof vest to let go of the man, who is crying and gasping for breath.
“Get your hands off of him. You don’t even have a warrant,” says one staff member, shielding the man from an immigration agent. “Let him go. You need to get out.”
According to the article the man was still taken and no-one knows where he is now. So their actions didn’t matter in the end.
Point of order: Just because the end result was the same, doesn’t mean it didn’t matter.
It does matter. It matters to those of us that care. It matters to know what side people are on.
No. This post was an action that doesn’t matter. What they did mattered.
I’d disagree. A post matters if you care about a toic or action, because more people see what is happening.
Edit: Given my down votes, I’m guessing the above person meant “comment” and not “post”. And others are attributing it as such.
Wut?
We live in dynamic environments of complex interacting relationships, in case you hadn’t realised, so outcomes are not binary.