All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump Goes Nuts with Failed Cover Up

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2:39Ben Meiselas:All hell is breaking loose right now throughout the United States as Donald Trump is trying to distract from the fact that he and his regime are covering up the release of the Epstein files, refusing to turn over and comply with the Epstein Transparency Act. Instead, they dumped a bunch of redacted documents and said, here it is. Now, whenever Donald Trump is in this cover-up mode, he ratchets up his attacks on people in the United States. He ratchets up his ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo, torturing, terrorizing people throughout this country. And this week has been no different. The horrors, the atrocities, they've been caught on tape.

3:22Ben Meiselas:They've been caught on film. They've been caught in photos. Courageous citizen journalists out there showing what this Trump regime is doing, taking out Donald Trump's cover-up cowardice on terrorizing these communities. Let's take a look, for example, what just went down in Pittsburgh as ICE brutally detains a Pittsburgh man. They put their knee to his head. They torture this individual. He's screaming, I can't breathe. I can't breathe. And witnesses are saying he can't breathe. What are you doing here? This incident took place on Norton Street in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

3:58Ben Meiselas:Let's play this clip.

4:20Ben Meiselas:And then this week you had ICE basically pinning down and dragging what appeared to be a pregnant woman and people are saying she's pregnant. She's pregnant. You're torturing a pregnant woman. You're beating down on a pregnant woman and you're choking her. What are you doing? This is what Trump's America looks like. No wonder tourism is down in the United States by like 40, 50%. Who the hell wants to come to this authoritarian regime? Here, play this clip.

4:55We kept yelling, she's pregnant. She's pregnant. She's pregnant. They put their knees in her and And we kept telling them, she can't breathe. Let her up. Let her up. In the chaos, the woman who was handcuffed was suddenly being dragged by one arm as the angry crowd threw snowballs and screamed at the federal agents.

5:13Ben Meiselas:And this is going on from coast to coast, right? So, for example, in Buffalo, New York, you're seeing ice attacking roofers, people who are working on construction projects. The lady who owns the home is like, what are you doing? Like, these people are working on my house. Why are you pointing guns at them and you're pounding them to the floor and you're choking them to death? What the hell are you doing, Trump regime? Here, play this clip.

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6:13Ben Meiselas:let me just show you another angle right here of what went down in pittsburgh because after the uh ice gestapo the border patrol gestapo took him around the car they put their knee on the guy's neck and they tried to choke him to death basically play this clip

6:40Ben Meiselas:now here's the sicko here's the terrorist here's in my opinion the war criminal out there who's going around terrorizing people he calls himself the commander at large he's a cartoonish villainous character who, if he wasn't causing so much pain, this guy would be a parody. What a pathetic individual this guy is. Dan Bovino, here he is showing up in Forest Park and he's been in Evansville, Illinois as well. And here he is like making a mockery of it all. He's like playing rock, paper, scissors over who goes next to torture human beings. They're doing rock, paper scissor over torturing migrants or torturing anybody who they believe looks like migrants.

7:24Ben Meiselas:These are sick terrorists that work for the Trump regime and that Trump regime enables and ratifies. Here, play this clip.

7:41You guys are fucking losers. And that's why your Christmas is going to be a piece of shit because you're a piece of shit. You're a piece of shit.

7:50Ben Meiselas:Folks, even Governor Pritzker of Illinois put out the following statement in Illinois, put out the following statement. This isn't enforcement. This is harassment. They're grabbing people off the street for how they look. They're separating families. They're scarring communities with masks, agents with guns. I encourage everyone to do as they have peacefully protect your neighbors and your neighborhoods. Here's Bovino again. here's a terrorist here let's play this clip what's it like being back in chicago i love chicago chicago ho ho it's uh gonna be a merry christmas in chicago so we always love chicago and uh what brings you here yeah what's that how many days are you gonna be here unknown at this time we have we never quit do you have a goal so far in the next few days we're here uh title aid immigration enforcement we're gonna enforce immigration law and uh that's what we're here doing and where have you been today we've been in several locations cicero little village various other locations all over chicago we got a lot of teams and how many agents have you brought from new orleans several hundred okay so how many total border patrol agents in chicago right now border and others as well so good guys now here's how it's being reported on 11 news in pittsburgh about what went down with that individual and by the way ice and border patrol never got back to network about why they were going after that guy.

9:06Ben Meiselas:That's a common theme that we hear. Play this clip. It's scary. Neighbors described chaos and confusion as they watched federal agents take a man into custody on Norton Street in Mount Washington. Yo, he told you he cannot breathe. Cell phone video taken Wednesday morning shows a struggle that continued for several minutes. The ICE agent car was blocking the truck. He was going up. The truck was going up. And there was another car in front of him, so they must have blocked him in. Neighbors watched and listened from a distance, many of them taking videos and asking questions. One neighbor told us he heard a loud boom, which he believes was the man's truck window being broken.

9:55That truck was still parked along Norton when our Channel 11 crew arrived. A public information officer from the city of Pittsburgh told Channel 11 police and EMS were called to evaluate all parties following the incident, which included federal agents from ICE and the man who was the target of the operation. Channel 11 asked about Pittsburgh police's role in the incident. Police sent this statement, reading in part, quote, Pittsburgh police is not apprised of ICE activity, such as federal administrative warrant service in the city of Pittsburgh, and does not assist ICE agents with such operations.

10:31Pittsburgh police officers respond to emergency calls for service in their jurisdiction. I don't think anybody is against going after criminals, regardless of your legal status. I think we all want to live safely. The issue is that we don't know. So until we do know, like that's where the issue is. That's where we need more transparency. Now we reached out to Homeland Security investigators to ask exactly why the man was taken into custody and if there were any warrants out for his arrest. Those questions remain unanswered tonight. We're live in the South Side. Lauren Talata, Channel 11 News.

11:10Ben Meiselas:Next, we'll talk about ICE detaining a pregnant woman, different pregnant woman than we just talked about in that prior footage. This is a pregnant woman in Nashville, Tennessee. The prior footage was a pregnant woman in Minneapolis. This is in Tennessee right here. ICE detained her. She gave birth in custody. Then they took away her two and a half day old baby. While they tortured her, they took away her baby and made her give birth in custody and then stole her baby. Here, play this clip. Esther Lopez Sanchez is in ICE custody, while she says her baby, who is a U.S. citizen, is in DCS custody.

11:46Lopez Sanchez talks to Zineb Almathcour from the detention center. This has destroyed her. Almathcour tells me Rutherford County deputies arrested Lopez Sanchez last year while pregnant. Once at the Rutherford County Jail, Almathcour tells me Lopez Sanchez went into labor and gave birth at a hospital. Then she was sent to a detention center without her baby. Her whole focus is regaining custody of her daughter, whether that means fighting deportation here, going back to Mexico. Deputies arrested Lopez Sanchez along with her partner, Roberto Nunez Gomez, for drug and firearm charges. Lopez Sanchez's charges were dropped last month, but Nunez Gomez was convicted.

12:33Almath Kaur tells me Nunez Gomez is the baby's father. The mom is perfectly capable of caring for her child. Steve Gill is a conservative political analyst. The real focus has to be what's best for the child, whether it's being under foster care here in the U.S. while the mother is back in Mexico, or whether it is dispatching the child with the mother back to Mexico. Attorney Andrew Rankin agrees custody needs to be in the best interest of the child, but says first migrants should be heard in court. There is an argument that as a matter of due process, parents have the right to parent their child.

13:15Rankin tells me reliable family members should be next in line. Does it matter if that family member is undocumented? It could matter to DCS. He says it matters because a family member might be detained too, leaving the child in limbo. A DCS spokesperson tells me that they can't comment on Lopez Sanchez's case because that information is confidential. A nice spokesperson tells me they are working on a statement for us, but we haven't received that yet. When we do, we'll keep you updated. Reporting live in Nashville, Karen Aguilar, Fox 17 News, your Code Red Station. This episode is brought to you by IQ Bar, our exclusive snack and hydration sponsor.

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15:37Ben Meiselas:ICE, they love to attack women. They love to attack everybody. They go after women pretty hard and torture women. ICE detained a mother dropping their kid off at elementary school because ICE said they got a tip from the estranged father. So six agents swarm her car, smash her windows, drag her out, throw her on the floor in front of traumatized students. Her daughter has not seen her dad in over a year. She doesn't want to go with her dad. But now you're seeing Vanessa Parazal was brought to the U.S. 22 years ago at the age of two years old, and she was just tortured by ICE in front of children.

16:18Ben Meiselas:Here play this clip. 24-year-old Vanessa Parazal had just finished dropping her daughter off at Pinehurst Elementary School when she was swarmed by Immigration Customs Enforcement agents wearing masks and vests. Her neighbor, Beth, she was riding behind her, got out the car and videocaped everything that happened. Elizabeth Watkins captured this video. In it, you can see at least six men trying to pull Vanessa out of her vehicle. When that didn't work, they smashed the driver's side window. Vanessa's sister-in-law, Sophia Livingston, alleges the father of Vanessa's child called ice on her because of a custody dispute.

16:54She called me earlier. I could barely understand her from how upset she was. She said, please protect my child. Please protect my family. Her daughter has not seen her dad in over a year. Her daughter does not want to go with her dad. parents and community members organized a protest outside of Pinehurst Elementary during pickup time. Olivia Wackett says she had just attended an event at the school a week prior. It's so jarring to have gone from experiencing that and feeling like this true sense of belonging and community and loving and supporting one another to look out you know my window and see this car just completely bashed in.

17:35She says Wednesday's events have shaken the entire community. This has a ripple effect. It's not just the person who was ripped from her car this morning that this is impacted and her family. It's our entire community. It's our children that are being impacted by this. Reporting in Salisbury, I'm Layla Weah, WMDT, because local matters.

17:59Ben Meiselas:The next clip I'm going to show you, ICE hit a man with their SUV at a high speed and then detained him without calling an ambulance to, in my opinion, try to kill him. Here, play this clip. It was caught on camera when a man running from a fast-moving truck turned back to look and got hit by the side mirror. He somersaulted over the pavement and got back up to run again. That's when authorities in masks and tactical vests swarmed in and handcuffed him. If that was one of my family members, I'd be pissed off. Because you have to hit me and deport me? That is crazy. Hannah Sanchez says the men who arrested him were wearing ICE logos and that they almost hit her first on the other side of the building.

18:40You're a federal agent. Why are you not paying attention? When they chased the man out of the laundromat next door. The guy was doing his laundry with his family. I heard the wife crying. What are you bothering him for? There's bigger fish to fry. We reached out to Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security for clarification on who was going after this man and for what specific reason, whether or not they believe he may have a criminal record. We have not yet heard back, but local authorities confirm it was not them. Rialto police say they were not notified before or after the incident, but now they're investigating and trying to identify the man who was driving this black pickup.

19:21We don't know if they were actually looking for this person or if they just racially profiled him. Javier Hernandez is the executive director of Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice. He says they're waiting to hear back from several consulates for any information about who was involved in this incident. They're demanding answers. It seems very clear that the intentions of these officers were to stop this gentleman at whatever cost necessary. That included, you know, hitting him with their view.

19:51Ben Meiselas:Next, you have Mayor Biss of Evansville, Illinois, confronts that terrorist, that despicable, vile piece of trash who goes by the name of Greg Bovino. Watch as the mayor confronts this little piece of trash. Here, play this clip.

20:30to be a gun. Violence is unacceptable.

20:36Violence is unacceptable. Violence is unacceptable. Yeah, that's why we're here. That's why we're here. We are in your community. We're here in the community. Violence is committed by the guys that shouldn't be here in your community. I'm unaware of that happening. Well, that's probably the problem. You should get aware of it. Hey, Alvino, we don't want you here, bro. So a few minutes ago, a bunch of ICE and CBP agents were here. I stood face to face with Greg Bovino right here. And he threatened us, said he's going to continue the enforcement. Of course, what he said was he's keeping us safe from violence.

21:12But what we know is that the violence is being perpetrated by federal agents. They had a conversation with our police chief. It sounds like they plan to be here throughout the rest of the day. I'm delighted to say there were tons of rapid responders. There were people pushing back. The tragedy is that I saw with my own eyes two people who they abducted and I told there may be more. It's not clear yet. I don't want to say anything unless I'm sure it's true. But what I would say is this. Stay alert. Stay active. Keep yourself safe. If you're trained in rapid response, be out and about. And always remember the ICIRR hotline 855-435-7693.

21:48We need to keep each other safe.