My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated. #gettyreportage #getty at the #Whipple Federal building in #Minneapolis.”
Photo by Pierre Lavie.
#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
@Nonilex That they are so terrified of being filmed tells you all you need to know.
@Nonilex Make a complaint for assault?
@Nonilex Abernathy's arrest is documented in our video here: https://youtu.be/nkX_H1yjnMk
@Nonilex Here's the photo that was in the camera
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Normally, I would say “Press Photo of the Year,” but times are too wild and the year is still too young to commit to anything.🥴
This is the United States of America in 2026.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” —George Orwell
What an unexpected surprise.
Nazis do Nazi things.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68282613
That's some kind of photography award right there...
... Doesn't care about his welfare, as much as about his pics!
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@Nonilex everytime something like this happens it goes down in history documentation as government failure. Someone should tell Felon 47 he indeed made it into the books big time: biggest failure, weakest president ever.
@Nonilex a normal scene of any democracy sadly. If they include this kind of pictures to history books, there wouldn't be enough pages to have them all. But I don't think they would share this pictures, back in the day we didn't have photos, now we have, but they put a blindfold in our eyes.
As someone who has done a tiny bit of photojournalism in the past, this is so heartbreaking and infuriating and terrifying.
The USA is no longer a safe country for US citizens.
The Democrats in Congress better shut this country down before allowing this to continue. As the minority party, they can't do much, but they can cause a government shutdown.
@Nonilex Boggle. Photojournalists are magic. At least, these two are.
@Nonilex Wait, if he threw the camera, how was this photo created? I know, random question, but my brain is thinking too much...
I credited the photographer who took the photo & named the photographer who was pummeled by ICE. Reread post.
Fun fact: that is a $4600 Leica M10.
@Nonilex wat i See in the picture "the last hope"
#Leica, I hope you hang that foto on a good spot
@Nonilex Powerful photo
@Nonilex this the jack booted thugs we were warned about.
@Nonilex That‘s a Leica (from the looks).
@Nonilex the fact that they felt the need to confiscate equipment tells you everything. documentation is resistance. keep it goin 💪
We are in totalitarian freefall at this point you can call it fascism as well .
This is total collapse as anyone who’s been paying attention understands. The institutions that are supposed to preserve law and order don’t exist. They do not exist in the United States.
The path out of this relies on Americans viscerally understanding this fact
@Nonilex Rifle association is ok, Leica association is collecting massive destruction cameras and is declared illegal 
@Nonilex sadly there's more of this to come. I'd predicted the phase where journalists get snatched and disappeared before they'd come for ordinary citizens, but should've known they'd go the opposite direction. Darker days ahead.
The "journalists" just normalizing the decline and amplifying regime's statements without calling out the criminality have a lot to answer for.
@Nonilex as an amateur photographer photographing protests in DC I often worry about this as well.
@Nonilex no more press freedom in a fascist USA
Follow up on #Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy…
He later posted this image of his camera sitting on top of what appears to be a court date notice. The caption is very cryptic, but from the picture I infer his camera survived & he was in fact arrested. No word on whether he had any injuries, though at a minimum I’d expect bruises. An absolutely #unconstitutional #arrest.
#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #ICE #CBP
@Nonilex this reminds me of watching the 1968 Chicago police riots on TV, and a couple scenes remind me of watching the evacuation of the ghetto in Schindler‘s List. Ironically, the ice recruitment ads said these people would be protecting our “culture“. They have no shame.
@Nonilex John Abernathy on bsky: "I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye."
https://bsky.app/profile/anotherjon.bsky.social/post/3mcmzzjrjyc2u
In WW2, the company famously "transferred" Jewish employees to their offices outside of Germany, gave them a camera & a new job. The Leica Freedom Train.
https://legionmagazine.com/the-leica-freedom-train/
@Nonilex he tossed a leica? bold move!
that is a nice camera! A true photographer at heart!
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If you're throwing your Leica M around like that, you must be in a truly threatening situation. Was he arrested? I hope he's okay.
@Nonilex @derteckelansich Hilariously in his first update on BlueSky, while noting he was Ok, he also mentioned how his camera held up, leading someone else to note that only a REAL photojournalist would also slip in a gear review while describing being tackled and pepper sprayed.. 😂
@Nonilex A photo for the history books. I hope he is ok. 👀
@Nonilex to be clear, the people #protesting #ice are not terrorists, but the federal governments response to protestors is exactly how you create terrorist organizations. Something the US government has a lot of experience doing in many parts of the world.
An empire in decline turns inward
This will end badly if something doesn’t change. I have zero faith in the #democrats and the #supremecourt and most Americans are too self absorbed and or financially stressed for #generalstrike
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Incredible picture !!
@Nonilex it is time that journalists and citizens start suing the department of homeland security. Demand trump size damages. Go for $ 5 billion for assault and trauma.
@carsten @Nonilex I really don't understand why there isn't more of that going on. These are actual constitutional violations.
I get that the Supreme Court is compromised and even most of the other courts are, but if there were enough lawsuits on the books, *something* would get through and make headlines among other things.
