Marilu Mendez said when ICE vehicles began following her and her husband Monday and then surrounded their car on Tallman Street in New Bedford, she took out her cell phone and started recording.

Her video shows a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforement agent using a large hammer to break the back passenger window of their car.

Marilu said the agents were focused on her husband, Juan, but kept calling him “Antonio”, the name of another man who lives in their building.

Juan Mendez is now being held in a detention facility in Dover, New Hampshire, with a hearing scheduled for May 7.

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    So, in other words, these 500 million civilian owned guns are completely useless in actually doing what the 2A claims that they are for?

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      These people aren’t organized. There’s no plan or leadership. Sadly, they’re not going to get off their recliner until things effect them personally. Right now, most 2A types unfortunately don’t care that brown people are being trampled. Most of them don’t even know anything is happening at all. When things get bad enough (for them personally), they’ll take action. The question is, will it be too late by then?

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          Pretty much, yeah. I’m sure there are some groups out there LARP’ing as soldiers but I’m not counting on them to actually do anything. I would love to be proven wrong but my expectations are currently pretty low.

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      Yarp. The 2A calls for the right to form a militia. If one tried to do so right now I very much believe they would be labeled a terrorist organization and the executive branch would ignore the courts ruling it was their right. Might even be the U.S. born populous that he’s asking El Salvador to open more cells for