From the article: "Arnoldo had filmed much of the incident, but agents had taken his phone. He used Find My to locate the phone — at a vending machine for used electronics miles away, close to an ICE detention center. The footage, which ProPublica has reviewed, backed the family’s account of the chase."

The disturbing part isn’t that bad encounters happen — it’s that these techniques are officially banned, yet keep showing up across unrelated cases. When policy and on-the-ground behavior diverge this consistently, it stops looking like individual misconduct and starts looking like a systems problem.

It's probably a good thing that gold fillings/caps aren't that common these days.

The laws that ICE is enforcing were written by both parties.

I’m not sure what a used electronics vending machine is, but if find my is enabled on your phone, no one else can ever unlock it

This article is 95% about chokeholds, and is titled as such, but OP chose to pick out one sentence at the end to editorialize the post title with. None of the content of the article is rosy and it should be shared far and wide, but I was under the impressions post titles should match the headlines or at least the general topic of the linked item?

Title is: Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds on U.S. Citizens

Daniel (dang): I deeply resent if I now add to your daily troubles. If nothing else, please do believe that. I personally have not felt good around here for a good long time, but I have stayed, mostly because of you, your work and your influence around this site.

For what little that may be worth from a nameless stranger, you belong in my personal pantheon alongside luminaries of "the original net" - the Metafilters, Slashdots or even Fark.

I am German. The majority of my scholastic history education has - rightly - focussed on fascism and authorianism.

If you are living in the US right now: please, I am begging you, consider this: your democratic institutions have been thoroughly co-opted and have largely failed.

You know the whole "tree of liberty, blood of patriots" thing? It might already be that time; violence may already be required.

As we speak, members of your oldest military alliance are seriously discussing deploying troops in a god-forsaken part of the world, in defense of YOU.

There is no question at all how history will judge this - we know that, and we have seen that. The only question left unanswered is what you will be able to tell your children where you stood.