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🚨ICE agents were filmed assaulting a group of U.S. citizens for no reason, in California. In the video, ICE agents walked up to a group of U.S. citizens while they were filming, on public property, and then started shoving them. Then, they escalated even further, pointing pepper spray at multiple people who were doing nothing but recording, before casually walking back to their cars and leaving. No additional arrests, no threat identified, no justification given… just force. So, let’s call this what it is… A violation of the First Amendment. You have a protected right to film law enforcement in public… These people weren’t interfering with anything… ICE agents approached them and retaliated against them for exercising that right. That’s unconstitutional. And then there’s the Fourth Amendment… Law enforcement cannot use force without justification. They cannot walk up to civilians, put hands on them, and escalate to threats of chemical force because they feel like it. Shoving people who pose no threat and pointing pepper spray at people who are standing is excessive force… and it’s an unlawful seizure, even if it only lasts seconds. And the pattern here is what everyone should pay attention to. They finish an arrest…then turn to the bystanders. They don’t de-escalate, they expand the confrontation. They don’t leave, they intimidate. Because if federal agents can walk up to you on a sidewalk and assault you for exercising your first amendment rights… then your rights don’t exist.