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📍 Tracking government overreach, civil rights violations, and systemic threats to immigrant protections. #AbuseofPowerWatch

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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 1h
"A witness who spoke with ABC13 on the condition of anonymity said he saw the incident unfold.” "He said, 'Ah! Ah! Ah! You broke my leg! You broke my leg!' the witness recalled.” "The video shows Parra-Hernandez remaining on the ground for several minutes after he was struck.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 1h
"ICE said agents attempted to make the arrest and claimed Parra-Hernandez ran in front of their vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running over Parra-Hernandez." #AbuseofPowerWatch
abc7.com
ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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📍 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒: #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
📍𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊: ICE agents shot a man in his car while a child was also in the car. The victim is at least the 25th person to suffer gun violence at the hands of federal immigration officers. @repespaillat.bsky.social attempted to see the victim, but was denied by ICE. #AbuseofPowerWatch
theintercept.com
ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐉𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐘: “The state of New Jersey sued to close Delaney Hall as reports of inedible food, violent guards, and inadequate medical care continued to emerge from the facility. The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, claimed the hunger strike never happened.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: @democracyforward.org obtained government documents revealing deliberations within Homeland Security Investigations, which conducts investigations for ICE, to send undercover agents into non-profit groups across the nation. #AbuseofPowerWatch
newrepublic.com
ICE Secretly Investigated Hundreds of Nonprofits Across the Country
ICE was targeting voting rights groups in swing states—and beyond.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“The participants, several of whom were large-statured men, stopped resisting seconds after officers applied shocks by touching gloves to their skin, and were left with ‘fatigue, soreness and excessive apprehensiveness to being shocked again,’ the study found.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: The shock gloves purchased by ICE at a cost of $16 million to taxpayers worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to a previously unreleased Army study. #AbuseofPowerWatch
pbs.org
Shock gloves purchased by ICE cause pain, compliance and fear, Army study found
The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately...
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Soliman’s removal to Equatorial Guinea violated his due process rights under the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, said the Trump appointee, who wrote that the man has faced “irreparable harm” after being “unlawfully” deported. #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📍 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐗, 𝐀𝐙: Since being deported to country he doesn’t know, Arizona resident Ahmed Soliman “has been confined under armed guard, assaulted, held at gunpoint, and, most recently, arrested, hooded, beaten, and held incommunicado,” a federal judge said. #AbuseofPowerWatch
commondreams.org
Federal Judge Orders Trump DHS to Return Man to US After Deportation to Equatorial Guinea | Common Dreams
After being unlawfully deported to Equatorial Guinea, Ahmed Soliman faced unimaginable horrors. But a federal judge's ruling brings hope for his return to the US. Will justice prevail for Soliman and ...
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: Democracy Forward, a nonprofit organization, obtained government documents showing that ICE was surveilling and investigating voter registration organizations "as part of their efforts to catch noncitizens voting." #AbuseofPowerWatch
newrepublic.com
ICE Secretly Investigated Hundreds of Nonprofits Across the Country
ICE was targeting voting rights groups in swing states—and beyond.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“With the directive on daily arrests, ICE returns to a previous White House imposed push to arrest 3,000 people a day, an unprecedented number that the agency has previously struggled to meet. ICE had recently been taking around 2,000 people into custody daily on average …” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: ICE leadership told agents nationwide on Tuesday to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive. #AbuseofPowerWatch
cnn.com
Exclusive: ICE agents told to ramp up daily immigration arrests despite GOP unease as midterms near | CNN Politics
Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide on Tuesday to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, accord...
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Once inside the ICE facility, she continued to ask why she’d been arrested. ‘You spoke too much, that’s why,’ came the reply, according to María. ICE agents then said, ‘You should have thought about it before speaking up to defend your friend.”” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: “Why are you taking him if he isn’t the one you were looking for,” farmworker María told the masked agents who were harassing her friend. “At that moment they turned toward me and said they would arrest me, too, for asking questions and complaining.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
americancommunitymedia.org
ICE Detains Indigenous Mixtec Farmworker, a Single Mother, for 'Asking Questions'
The Mixtec woman, a farmworker in Oxnard, CA was defending a friend when ICE agents handcuffed and detained her, telling her she "spoke too much."
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“We already don’t have an independent [immigration] judiciary,” said MIRC’s Ana Raquel Devereaux, “and to have the defense side of representation also be within the government makes me feel like it’s all a farce and everybody is working together to get the kids removed.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, facing off against other administration lawyers who are trying to deport the kids. #AbuseofPowerWatch
motherjones.com
Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: A whistleblower filed two complaints alleging that the FBI opened an investigation into anti-ICE protesters in California after Trump was reportedly watching TikToks of protests against ICE and CBP agents. #AbuseofPowerWatch
cnn.com
Whistleblower says Trump demanded FBI probe into protesters over a TikTok he saw | CNN Politics
The FBI opened preliminary investigations targeting anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in Southern California, a former FBI intelligence official alleged in a whistleblower complaint,...
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More broadly, Judge Gary Brown “concluded that the agency’s claim — that it had confused the two men it arrested with the intended targets — was part of a ‘troubling’ pattern by ICE to justify erroneous arrests." #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📍𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊: A Trump-appointed federal judge condemned ICE’s tactics when it wrongfully arrested two Hispanic men, including a U.S. citizen, in the Bronx in May, finding that ICE had “falsified official records trying to conceal” its “illegal actions.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
nytimes.com
Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records
Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📍 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄, 𝐌𝐃: Immigration officials “failed at every single turn” to comply with a court order aimed to limit overcrowding at a Baltimore holding facility, and further violations could lead to contempt proceedings, a federal judge ruled. #AbuseofPowerWatch
thedailyrecord.com
‘Spectacular failure’: Baltimore ICE facility violated overcrowding order, judge finds
Immigration officials at a Baltimore holding facility have "failed at every single turn" to comply with a court order aimed to limit overcrowding, a federal judge said.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Many of us have been separated from our families,” reads the letter, which was signed by 45 detained immigrants, as dozens joined in to stage the hunger strike. “We have missed births, funerals, years of our lives while sitting behind fences without having committed any crime.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📍 𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐀: A group of people detained inside a privately run ICE jail in Georgia have launched a mass hunger strike this week to protest against their prolonged detention and the facility’s conditions, according to advocates and family members. #AbuseofPowerWatch
theguardian.com
Detained immigrants at Georgia ICE facility launch mass hunger strike
At least 73 people estimated to have joined protest against prolonged detention and Folkston facility’s ‘violations’
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“They don’t have a commissary set up, so that people can’t buy extra food and are just starving with the insufficient food they’re given,” said one attorney. “The facility is designed to torture people and push them to their breaking point so that they will self-deport.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📍 𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀: The so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” is now closed. But advocates are warning about possible similar conditions at the other state-operated immigrant detention camp in Florida: the Baker Correctional Institution, nicknamed by Ron DeSantis as “Deportation Depot.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
motherjones.com
Out of sight in North Florida: Life inside Deportation Depot
Advocates say conditions at the former state prison mirror Alligator Alcatraz’s worst.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“… groups filed a federal class-action lawsuit against DHS this year alleging poor drinking water, food, sanitation and medical care at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, and a federal judge ordered improvements. Four people have died at the facility since last year …” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: The sales reflect Trump administration efforts to avoid oversight from California and other states by placing the facilities under federal ownership, even though they would still be operated by private companies like GEO Group. #AbuseofPowerWatch
latimes.com
Department of Homeland Security buys two more detention centers in California for $950 million
The GEO Group, a Florida-based private prison corporation, announced Monday that it had sold the detention facilities, including the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, totaling 2,644 Beds.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Citizen kids have been swept up too — at least 70 of them. We’ve found about 20 kids who were handcuffed or zip-tied.” “… agents handcuffed a 15-year-old w/disabilities outside a school in Los Angeles in 2025. The agents said they mistook the teen for an alleged gang member.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“If I don’t, then who else?” Martinez said when asked what keeps her going. “Look at what happened to Renee [Good] and all these victims. … I have a voice, and I do matter, and I don’t want it to keep happening.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“… Martinez’s lawyers presented an animated reconstruction of the shooting based on evidence from the case that they say shows Exum was not in danger when he shot Martinez.” "Actual footage of the shooting does not exist because Exum failed to activate his body camera … ” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📍 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐎, 𝐈𝐋: Marimar Martinez, the U.S. citizen who was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent during last year’s chaotic Operation Midway Blitz, has filed a lawsuit against the federal government. #AbuseofPowerWatch
blockclubchicago.org
Marimar Martinez Sues Feds A Year After Border Patrol Agent Shot Her 5 Times
A reconstruction of the shooting commissioned by Martinez’s legal team found agent Charles Exum was standing to the side of her car and was not in danger as he fired, her attorneys said.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“They said they honor him in their homes, where they keep small pictures of him near images of saints and a candle. And, they said, by sharing his story. 'Because that’s what he would have wanted, is for us to keep going and to keep fighting,’ his sister said.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📍 𝐁𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐃, 𝐌𝐄: While they wait for answers and accountability, Maine dad Johan Sebastián’s family wants the world to know that he was a good person who “took a little piece of everyone with him” when he was shot and killed by ICE this past summer. #AbuseofPowerWatch
pressherald.com
Family of man shot by ICE agent in Biddeford wants transparency, accountability
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero's widow and sister said they want people to know he was a good man, 'just working for his family.'
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📍𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊: A former NYC police sergeant pleaded guilty to impersonating a federal immigration official in order to threaten a woman and her family with deportation, conduct prosecutors have described as an attempt to “take revenge” on someone in his personal life. #AbuseofPowerWatch
newsweek.com
NYPD cop posed as ICE agent to 'take revenge' on woman: DOJ
A former NYPD sergeant pleaded guilty to posing as an ICE official and threatening a woman and her family with deportation.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: "ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them ‘unaccompanied.’” "The administration’s goal in detaining these children, a former ORR official says , is ‘to make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.’” #AbuseofPowerWatch
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine but also stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. #AbuseofPowerWatch
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a database run on Palantir software, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“St. Juste wrote that many thought he was her biological child. She affectionately called him ‘Da,’ and said his death ‘has left me with this emptiness.’” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Pierre Damas Bel’s stepmother, Landy St. Juste, wrote that he was caring and obedient. He often interpreted for her, and checked on her often, calling her during her breaks at work. He helped her apply for a job, for which she was hired.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📍 𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃, 𝐎𝐇: Hundreds gathered over the weekend to mourn and remember the life of Pierre Damas Bel. "The service was somber, at times passionate, and included calls to action and encouragement to come together.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
springfieldnewssun.com
Hundreds gather in Springfield to remember Haitian student Pierre Damas Bel at funeral service
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is a...
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another death in ICE custody, a 21-year-old who died by suicide after his mother was detained, and the Supreme Court allowing third-country deportations to resume for now. These are not isolated stories. Read our new #AbuseOfPowerWatch newsletter by @yunao08.bsky.social for more.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
Abuse of Power Watch - October 2nd
A weekly collection of articles and stories of the federal government’s abuses of power.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: ICE has missed its target to equip all field agents with body cameras by the end of September. DHS says training is still ongoing, while agents involved in several fatal incidents this year were not wearing body cameras. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
spectrumlocalnews.com
Not all ICE field agents trained on body cameras, missing target date
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had said the agency was on track to equip the officers by the end of September
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: The Supreme Court will review the Trump administration’s policy of denying bond hearings to immigrants in removal proceedings. The policy has left tens of thousands in mandatory detention, sometimes for months, without an opportunity to argue their detention. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
washingtonpost.com
Supreme Court to scrutinize ICE’s mandatory detention policy for immigrants
The case, one of the first the court has accepted since its summer recess ended, promises to be among the most consequential of the term that begins next week.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐓𝐀: Nine months after ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good, her family is suing the Trump admin. and officials involved in Operation Metro Surge. “Accountability and change... is the only way to make sure that no other family has to go through what we have.” #AbuseOfPowerWatch
cnn.com
Family of Renee Good sues US government and Trump officials over her death | CNN
The family of an American woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has filed two civil lawsuits related to her death, according to court records filed Thursday in Minnesot...
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: After ICE detained Minerva Terrones, her 21-year-old son Samuel, who had been diagnosed with depression and schizophrenia, lost the support she gave him. Weeks later, he died by suicide. A federal judge later found his mother had been held illegally. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
latimes.com
His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐓𝐀: The Justice Department filed judicial conduct complaints against all but one of Minnesota’s active federal judges, after judges publicly discussed the impact of the administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
washingtonpost.com
DOJ files complaint against Minn. judges for criticizing immigration surge
Several judges spoke to the New York Times about their concerns around the immigration crackdown. One judge Wednesday defended his decision to speak publicly as “well within the ethical rules.”
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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