50 year prison sentence for protesting ICE

[Eliot Rosewater]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced


I guess I’m going to prison also as soon as I go out and protest the Trump government.

Hey you nose holders, hey you KAMALA isn’t good on Gaza, go to hell please🤬🤬🤬🤬

[spanone]

1. K&R

[malaise]

2. But pardons and cash for

Attempted coup participants

[Baitball Blogger]

3. The judge who assigned that sentence must be a Trumpy.

I am sure it's going to be appealed based on Free Speech and excessive sentence.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. On of them shot a police officer.

Not a normal protest. They showed up at night to vandalize things and one of them armed with an AR-15 shot a cop when he showed up.

[rollin74]

5. just a minor detail

that often gets left out of the conversation

doesn’t fit my definition of a “protest” at all

[edhopper]

7. But does it fit your definition of terrorist?

Vandalized some cars and one person had a gun. 50 years.Texas, where child rape gets you 3:months.

[MichMan]

10. One person shot a gun

Don't know if others were armed or not.

[Torchlight]

11. Wouldn't more weapons found be advertised very, very loudly?

As it stands, the silence in that regard is most deafening.

[Ms. Toad]

6. This went a tad beyond a protest.

A few of the protesters spontaneously broke off from the main group and vandalized cars in the parking lot, a guard shack, slashed the tires on a government van and broke a security camera. When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.

[edhopper]

8. So 50 years for vandalism

is fair?

[Ms. Toad]

9. Did I say that?

I simply pointed out that the sentences were not for protesting, as the OP suggested.

[Autumn]

12. If you are armed with AR-15 and shoot a cop you aren't protesting.

Anyone who shoots anyone while hiding in the woods with an AR 15 can fuck off and go to hell. No fucking please to it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. The fact that terrorism charges were added to all of these is what's horrifying here.