Tow Trucks Reportedly Stalking ICE Convoys And Taking Their SUVs
A story trending on social media tells of a growing group of tow truck drivers in Los Angeles who are reportedly 'stalking,' or should we say following ICE convoys around the city so they can tow away unmarked ICE vans and SUVs when they park illegally—as they invariably do—and start to conduct their 'abductions' of people off the street. Tow truck drivers to the rescue! Imagine that.
It sounded great but unfortunately the story is exaggerated
This sounds like a strong background story for a movie, maybe starring Gerard Butler or Liam Neeson and directed by Paul Greengrass from the Jason Bourne films. If ICE agents are 'disappearing' citizens, then tow trucks drivers can repay in kind and 'disappear' their ICE SUVs.
According to Newsweek though, 'The claims, however, appear to be exaggerated.' The publication goes on to say, 'The towing company in the popular viral clip is Oxnard towing service Airport Towing. When contacted by Newsweek by phone, the company confirmed the white SUV was an ICE vehicle that had been parked illegally on Thursday, July 10. However, viral reports that the tow truck driver was 'following' ICE are inaccurate.' According to Airport Towing, the vehicle had been parked illegally on private property for more than an hour when the company arrived to tow it.
Check out the video below. Seeing a tow truck driver removing an ICE SUV could not be more satisfying, even if it was just a routine removal and the story of a bunch of ICE vans being stalked by tow trucks was exaggerated. Many readers, I'm sure, were hoping this story to be be true, until fact-checking site Snopes traced the social media report back to a satirical site, saying that it had taken one incident and blown it out of proportion. But we can imagine where the story came from, as citizens are being 'disappeared' by the regime, and a vigilante tow truck resistance would seem like a godsend.
Jon Favreau of Pod Save America, and former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, summed up what Americans are battling against and what tow truck drivers could react to, if so inclined. 'You have plain clothes agents, with masks, with guns, sometimes in unmarked vehicles. What are people supposed to do when someone grabs you off the street or grabs someone you're with? You're not supposed to demand to see a warrant? You not supposed to try to stop it? What if it's some bad guy, some criminal who says that they're from ICE [but they're not!]Even if the original story was exaggerated, the underlying premise of tow truck drivers resisting ICE raids is cause for hope, hope that citizens can use whatever limited powers they have to help save innocent fellow residents.
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