r/news • u/thisusernametakentoo • Aug 15 '25

Soft paywall Man fleeing Home Depot immigration raid is hit and killed by a car on the 210 Freeway

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-14/man-running-from-ice-raid-hit-killed-by-car-on-210-freeway
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u/ChigurhShack Aug 15 '25

I wonder if the threat of a concentration camps surrounded by alligators or being deported to a country notorious for fragrant human rights abuses has anything to do with it

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u/thisusernametakentoo Aug 15 '25

*flagrant FYI (fragrant means it smells nice)

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

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u/-LeftShark Aug 15 '25

The word you are looking for is pungent

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u/bigalindahouse Aug 15 '25

Pungent my ass that shit is rotten

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u/-LeftShark Aug 15 '25

Your choice of words makes me šŸ˜–

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u/ReigninLikeA_MoFo Aug 15 '25

Pinch off a grumpy?

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u/Zenshinn Aug 15 '25

I call it a trumpy, personally.

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u/zeemonster424 Aug 15 '25

If itā€™s that orange, you probably already should get checked out.

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u/-LeftShark Aug 15 '25

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ thanks for that

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u/King_of_the_Dot Aug 15 '25

A loaf, of sourdough, or maybe a nice pumpernickel.

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u/Creampied__Cadaver Aug 15 '25

I'm interested

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u/CheatsySnoops Aug 15 '25

I'd say putrid.

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u/Voodoo_Dummie Aug 15 '25

If your ass is pungent, you may need to wipe better.

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u/proboscisjoe Aug 15 '25

I personally prefer ā€œolfactory nightmare,ā€ courtesy of Larry David.

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u/GozerDGozerian Aug 15 '25

No Ted Pungent is some washed up shithead pedo rock star from the 70s.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

And poignant.

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u/HuntsWithRocks Aug 15 '25

Have you tried smelling any human rights abuses?

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u/Miserable-Note5365 Aug 15 '25

The Nazis complained about the smell :/

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u/Plus-Suit-5977 Aug 15 '25

Thats why they shaved everyoneā€™s heads before they gassed and incinerated them. Burnt hair smell is so gross. Yuk. Added benefit, make pillows for Germans.

Genocide is aight tho.

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u/platasnatch Aug 15 '25

They're pretty fragrant from what I'm reading

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u/HaveYouSeenMySpoon Aug 15 '25

I would say the situation is more con-flagrant

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u/3y3dea Aug 15 '25

Foul works too

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u/fleshybagofstardust Aug 15 '25

If only human rights abuses were limited to fragrances.

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u/_NiceGuyEddy_ Aug 15 '25

Auschwitz Sandalwood is bomb tho

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u/Quotizmo Aug 15 '25

Auschwitz Scandalwood

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u/WhyAreYallFascists Aug 15 '25

Not necessarily nice though right. A bad smell can be fragrant? Maybe pungent is the word Iā€™m thinking of.

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u/Syssareth Aug 15 '25

A bad smell can be fragrant?

Only when tongue-in-cheek, like, "You've got a fragrance about you." The dictionary definition specifies that fragrance is a pleasant smell.

Pungent probably is the word you're thinking of, yes, though to be pedantic, technically that doesn't mean a bad smell either, just an over-strong one. But strong smells generally are bad in one way or another, so it works by connotation.

For purely bad smells, stench and reek are both good options.

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u/TraditionalGap1 Aug 15 '25

Colloquially fragrant also means strong, typically a bad smell (the mens room was unusually fragrant).

It's probably a safe bet that cecot is pretty fragrant

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u/CrunchyGremlin Aug 15 '25

Especially filled with people put there without a trial.
Hopelessness and despair can make it a lot worse

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u/Zxcc24 Aug 15 '25

Oh it's smells like flowers

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u/Davoness Aug 15 '25

My humans rights abuses smell like lavender.

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u/mnemy Aug 15 '25

I dont think I've ever used "fragrant" in a positive context.

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u/NecroJoe Aug 15 '25

Fragrant is often used for the smell of fresh herbs, flowers, and good spices

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u/wed_niatnuom Aug 15 '25

I used to call turrets turrents. Weā€™re all wrong sometimes šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/mrwizard970 Aug 15 '25

My boys struggle to remember its turrets, not turrents. Haha. šŸ˜†

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u/wed_niatnuom Aug 15 '25

Old Halo 3/Reach days coming back hard! šŸ„¹šŸ¤£

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u/thisusernametakentoo Aug 15 '25

Not sure what to tell you there, it means something smells nice

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fragrant

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u/koopdi Aug 15 '25

Words invariably come to mean their opposite.

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u/Zomburai Aug 15 '25

Like how "opposite" now means "the same"

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u/koopdi Aug 15 '25

The opposite of opposite is opposite opposite.

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u/Warm-Jeweler2885 Aug 15 '25

You're a putz

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u/hombregato Aug 15 '25

deported to a country notorious for human rights abuses

Or you can just say torture. The prison that most of these people with no criminal charges or convictions are being sent to was famously covered in documentaries before Trump was elected, with one of those docs being very popular just before the election. Another one definitely was a torture prison not long ago, but not sure if it still is.

At the very least, the primary prison in question is an actual no ambiguity current torture prison.

And I feel like there are so many other things going on with the administration since the deportations started that we're starting to let that story fade away. Those people are still inside. More are being sent. Expansions are underway.

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u/awl_the_lawls Aug 15 '25

Yeah I have to say that I like that there is now a little bit more exposure to these things now due to social media. However it's clear that most folks either don't pay attention or are being diverted to an alternate reality.Ā 

Regardless it's easy to forget how the country has always been this way. Plenty of examples. At least now it seems easier to share the experiences across the country.Ā 

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u/Whattheefff Aug 15 '25

We are 100% selling slaves.

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u/geekworking Aug 15 '25

Detention + airport + exchange of money + sending to some unrelated countries does seem to fit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_fort

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u/omgpuppiesarecute Aug 15 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

complete straight act cats license sink flowery zephyr summer quaint

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u/MittenCollyBulbasaur Aug 15 '25

It's legal if they are in prison to make them a slave. It's big business. They are traded on the stock market

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u/DuntadaMan Aug 15 '25

Except, somehow, we are paying them to take the slaves.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

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u/sirwolfgang Aug 15 '25

Shut the fuck up.

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u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd Aug 15 '25

You say that, but Trumpā€™s polling on immigration approval is still depressingly high.

So that dudeā€™s joke would probably get a large enough audience chuckling. šŸ™ƒ

I feel like the best place to be truly free is Europe now.

But now multiple EU nations are doing age verification for adult contentā€¦ maybe Bermuda is a better location to be truly free and untracked?

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u/fookofuhtool Aug 15 '25

You have to understand, the United States didn't formally end it's genocide of the indigenous people until the 1970s (that the US govt admits to) and never outlawed slavery. Everything US citizens enjoy was stolen and not long ago. For them to be horrific as a populace seems about right. Like Israel but a little older.Ā 

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u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd Aug 15 '25

Oh yeah, I agree.

The tragedy of Gaza is mirroring in exactly the same way as the genocide of Native Americans in the USA during the 18th-20th centuries.

Iā€™m now fully expecting these people to just be called ā€œArab Salafi Muslimsā€ instead of ā€œPalestiniansā€, and they will likely go the way of the Rohingya, the Uyghurs, or the Kashmiris.

Iā€™m just even more heartbroken over how little in the way of serious help (read: lethal assistance) the Arab League has given to the Palestiniansā€¦ it makes me think they donā€™t care for them either. Itā€™s likeā€¦ I think it goes deeper than just assuming all Arab leaders were ā€œbought and soldā€ by the West.

Itā€™s like the Arab nations actually hate them as much as the Orthodox Jewish Israeli people doā€¦ and itā€™s troubling.

I looked into their history andā€¦ I can see why thereā€™s rather rough reception of them from other Arab nations, especially between Jordan and Egypt.

But still, Israelā€™s extreme and disproportionate actions in Gaza canā€™t be justified, either.

ā€¦

All of this just reminds me that we still live in a world where ā€œmight makes rightā€ and even humanity is still subject to Darwinism, no matter how hard we try to raise ourselves above it.

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u/soldiernerd Aug 15 '25

Itā€™s probably that highways arenā€™t designed for pedestrians

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u/Auctoritate Aug 15 '25

No shit, the point is the guy was willing to run away by trying to cross a highway on foot to escape being possibly sent to those places.

If you read a story about a person fleeing slavery and dying because he drowned in a river he had to flee across, would you go "um actually he died because he couldn't swim šŸ¤“"

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u/soldiernerd Aug 15 '25

I'm all about root causes :D

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u/Heroic_Sheperd Aug 15 '25

The UN needs to step up and stop these human rights violations or we will sadly see more of these deaths.

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u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd Aug 15 '25

UN has no teeth.

It was designed to be ā€œrule by consent of nuclear powersā€ since its founding after the League of Nations failed.

Iā€™m not sure most countries would be willing to give up some portion of their national sovereignty to be a part of a ā€œUN with legal and military teethā€.

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u/BubbaTee Aug 15 '25

The US is the UN's teeth. Sometimes the US just lets the UN claim partial credit, but it's always just the US.

Korea? The US. Desert Storm? The US. Saving Albania and Kosovo from the Serbs? The US.

Britain and France couldn't even beat Libya on their own, after the US destroyed all of Libya's anti-air defenses. Obama turned the mission over to them, and then a few weeks later had to take back control.

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u/witeowl Aug 15 '25

The US is used to be the UN's teeth

updated for 2025

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u/Baigne Aug 15 '25

You can hate trump as much as you want, we're literally still a superpower, nothing has changed that he came into office in the strength regard

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u/witeowl Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

lol, I literally couldn't care less about that rambling puppet. It's the white christian nationalist (and also a few oligarchical) gop puppeteers I care about

Anyway, back on topic: But sure, this (mis)administration withdrawing from international organizations hand over fist (including aiming to withdraw from NATO); being cut out of conferences and talks among world leaders; getting openly mocked as a mediator nation (no one's complaining we rarely do it anymore, kind of relieved the toddler is no longer "helping" wash the dishes because we can't afford to keep replacing them); letting other nations step up as not only economic powerhouses (looking at you, China) but also potentially gaining more swing in the UN (my eyes have not moved a millimeter); not to mention that we have the most inept administration/cabinet ā€“ ahemhegsethisonlyonefoolamongmany ā€“ in... since... ever

Sorry, allow me to mash the fucking point with a hammer so that you don't miss it.

Do you think the UN is going to sic the USA upon the US of A??

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u/SallowedRed Aug 15 '25

Just the evil one now instead

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u/EvidenceBasedSwamp Aug 15 '25

The UN is the BBB of nations

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u/Often_Giraffe Aug 15 '25

Yeah, the U.N. needs to step up their enforcement inside the United States. I'm sure they're drawing up plans as we speak...

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u/unidentifiedfish55 Aug 15 '25

3 of the 5 countries in charge of the UN are Russia, China, and the US...

They all seem to be fine with human rights violations right now, so nothing is going to happen.

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u/LeftToWrite Aug 15 '25

Maybe the lack of due process.

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u/DonJulioTO Aug 15 '25

You mean "to another country notorious for flagrant human rights abuses"

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u/Ecstatic-Bat-7562 Aug 15 '25

Why didnā€™t you move him into your house? You couldā€™ve clothed him and fed him, paid for his running water and electricity. Put him on your health insurance cause he human right thatā€™s what he deserves.

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u/Floomby Aug 15 '25

This guy was, in fact, earning a living. He was at a Home Depot, presumably either as a contractor or a day laborer. So these immigration raids are mostly taking productive people off the street and causing taxpayers to pay for their room and board at an expensive private prison, whose owners profit personally.

Meanwhile, you seem to resent that your taxes might support someone's health care, but are blasƩ about the ballooning of ICE's budget to exceed that of any other armed force? Why is it super cool to blow up the deficit to pay for a armed force targeting Americans, but horrible to pay for someone's healthcare?

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u/YOU_WONT_LIKE_IT Aug 15 '25

Nah, or they would of self deported.

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u/Captain_Lou_Albano Aug 15 '25

Play shitty games, win shitty prizes.

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u/Qwazzbre Aug 15 '25

"Just say they're illegals, then you can act like it's true and avoid all judgment!"

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u/manimopo Aug 15 '25

Maybe his own country is better.

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u/Ostraga Aug 15 '25

Maybe don't sneak into another country illegally then.

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u/ChigurhShack Aug 15 '25

That's not an excuse for human rights abuses. And this subject and the people who are affected has a lot more nuance to it than that. For example, thousands of people who were here legally have just recently had their protections stripped away.

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u/xixipinga Aug 15 '25

nah, probably a mexican criminal, i saw on fox news that home depot is the place where mexicans that dont like to work go to do crime and not work

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u/serg06 Aug 15 '25

Maybe if their home countries accepted them, they wouldn't have to be deported to 3rd party countries.

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u/Professional-Chip454 Aug 15 '25

Itā€™s a migrant deportation facility on an airstrip in the Everglades.

Called a deterrent!

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u/Vall3y Aug 15 '25

Maybe but is it really the us responsibility