All over 5 dudes who are probably not Venezuelan, part of a gang or anything else. One of the dudes had a back pack and attempted to flee by jumping off the roof, but stopped when the alphabet agencies, aimed their guns at them. Couldn’t get many pictures, but we had ICE. FBI, DEA, and Aurora PD and SWAT on the scene. About 40ish people all together. Local residents were not ordered to shelter in place. And we were even seeing FBI helping to escort residents who walked nearby. The street was only closed already due to sewage maintenance. Bonus look into where Aurora tax money goes!

News story about the raid and the further raids going on

It appears to once again be related to the CBZ Slumlords properties located in Denver. Although the city did the right thing by taking these properties away, the bank wasn’t any better for the residents. Offering a paltry sum to move overwhelmingly poor people out of their apartments, instead of working with the displaced residents to either rehabilitate the homes they are in, or get them into the newer low income housing that is being built all around them.

Instead, it seems, the can was kicked down the road long enough that the local government alphabet thugs now have a perfect excuse to give Denver and Aurora this show of force of how ICe will bypass Denver resistance to giving ICE assistance.

    • BioWarfarePosadist [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      16·
      15 days ago

      Actually there is literally cop cars in the parking lot right now. They been here for fifteen minutes and I’m afraid to leave my car.

      (They finally left and I was able to get inside, crisis averted, comrade is safe)

  • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    15 days ago

    Definitely a show of force as there was never any truth to these aurora gang stories. You can thank Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur for this.

    Trump will brag about this later and how he took down the vicious tren de aragua gang and saved Colorado

    • GenXen [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      22·
      15 days ago

      It’s ironic to me that what turned me on to TYT originally was a clip of them featured in a documentary called “The Culture High” in which the two of them were railing into a story about a no knock SWAT raid being executed on the house of a reported drug dealer. The cops bust down the door, executed the family dog for doing what the family dog is supposed to do, cuffed mom and dad then proceeded to walk the young child in the house out past the dog they just executed all to find a single pipe and about .3 grams of pot. The Kasparianics were appropriate in that instance, now she rails against those of us that still point out that pro-cop legislation can only lead to more of shit like this.