Sophie Hurwitz

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"The firing squad is very physical and visceral in the damage that it does to the person being executed. That’s why they like it. They like it because it’s the same kind of video game brutality that they like in every other context of this administration’s barbarism."

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The Trump administration is pushing forward with sanctions against the ICC. A coalition of domestic political opposition and concerned foreign firms governments supporting the ICC is vital for future accountability against human rights abusers, including the Trump administration

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When ISIS killed my friend James Foley on camera they put him in an orange jumpsuit as a direct reference to images of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Not fucking interested my government having a fucking propaganda CONVERSATION with tomorrow’s terrorists, thanks.

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NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

wired.comICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal ArrestsBrenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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BREAKING: A federal immigration agent shot a man in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, the latest of nearly two dozen such shootings in the past two years. A statement by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani indicated that the man had a five-year-old child in his car.

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In April, a veteran death penalty lawyer described the DOJ’s plans to revive the firing squad in federal capital cases as part of the administration’s “brutality trip.” This week, Trump approved the military's first firing squad execution since WWII, which the Pentagon says will be live-streamed.

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An FTCA complaint is not the same as a lawsuit, but it is the first step to filing one. The government has six months to respond to the complaint, after which the family can pursue further legal action. You can read the full basis of the complaint here:

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New: The family of Silverio Villegas González, who an ICE agent fatally shot last year in Franklin Park, IL, has filed a Federal Tort Claims Act complaint against the federal government. ICE shot Villegas González, a father & Chicagoland resident, at the very beginning of "Operation Midway Blitz."

Partial image text: Claimant: Jose Villegas Gonzalez, as personal representative of the Estate of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez 8. Basis for the Claim ICE officers shoot and kill Silverio Villegas Gonzalez during a traffic stop. On the morning of September 12, 2025, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez drops off his 7 year-old son at school and his 3-year-old son at daycare and heads to work. Silverio had lived and worked in the United States for about 18 years and was working as a line cook at a local diner. Silverio was a devoted father. His children lived with him, and he was the primary parent in their lives. He maintained close relationships with family and was a man of faith. He took his children to church and to visit a shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe. He had no criminal record and only a few minor traffic violations. Soon after Silverio drops off his kids that day, two ICE officers in an unmarked Jeep follow him on Grand Avenue in Franklin Park, then turn on their emergency lights. The time is approximately 8:48 a.m. Silverio pulls over in the rightmost lane. The ICE agents park their Jeep in front of Silverio’s car, blocking his path forward and partially blocking the second lane of traffic. Both officers get out of their truck and approach Silverio’s small Subaru sedan. Both officers are armed and wearing protective vests. Neither officer is wearing a body camera, even though ICE policy in effect at the time requires officers to activate body-worn cameras during enforcement activity. One officer approaches the passenger-side window while the other subsequently approaches the driver’s window. The officer on the passenger side taps on the window, and Silverio rolls the window down. Both officers lean on the car’s window frames to speak with Silverio. The officer on the driver’s side taps on the window and Silverio rolls the driver-side window part-way down. Image text: Approximately ten seconds after the first officer approaches his vehicle, Silverio puts the car in reverse and backs away from the officers. Both officers keep their hands on the window frames as the car begins to move. Nothing prevents them from simply stepping away from Silverio’s car. The officer on the passenger side of the car steps back, draws his gun and points it at Silverio’s car. The officer on the driver’s side grabs hold of the top of the driver-side window rather than step away from the vehicle. Silverio reverses approximately fifty feet then begins to drive forward into the open lane of traffic. The officer on the passenger-side runs after Silverio as he drives forward with his gun still pointing at the car. Then he lowers his gun while continuing to run. Approximately six seconds after the car begins moving forward, surveillance video captures the sound of gunshots. Three seconds later, Silverio’s car is heard crashing as it strikes the underside of a parked delivery truck. The car has traveled approximately 170 feet from the moment it started moving forward until it crashed. ___ Accompanying the text are photos from security footage and witness video that captured the ICE shooting on 9/12/2025.
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Martin Soto, a Peruvian man thrown into solitary confinement after organizing a hunger and labor strike inside the notorious for-profit ICE detention facility Delaney Hall, was released from New Jersey’s Elizabeth Detention Center with an ankle monitor Tuesday night.

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