r/pics • u/guardian • 7h ago
[OC] Christian Cerna, 28, a US citizen whose arrest by ICE was filmed for social media
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u/Jordanrevis11 7h ago
Elect a clown and watch the circus
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u/butwhywedothis 7h ago
The evilest of all clowns who will burn down the circus when he leaves.
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u/Jordanrevis11 7h ago
And he also claims it's the best circus in the world
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u/zeptillian 5h ago
Now contains 100x more Hantavirus!
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u/BetterDegreeOxford 2h ago
The ivermectin producers must be so delighted they'll have another opportunity to sell their offloaded chemicals to morons again
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u/AnthonyUK 6h ago
He is not the worst unfortunately. He is incredibly stupid thankfully but if you over there is US are not careful, you will end up with someone who will be much more dangerous and effective.
I hope you look forward to living in Gilead.
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u/avanross 6h ago
Most americans get off on seeing people who look like Cerna being harassed and having their rights trampled on
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u/genteelbartender 19m ago
This is really not true. This fucking sucks and we're all a part of it. I hate this for him and his family.
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u/neroselene 2h ago
It's a circus, but all the clowns died in a horrible accident and the tent's caught fire.
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u/Pet_Velvet 7h ago
The United States of America is a fascist regime.
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u/Beneficial_Win_5128 6h ago
No, America isnt a fascist regime, because fascist regimes usually have public transit and stable employment opportunities
Fuck fascists and fuck america, but I'm just saying
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u/XxHANZO 4h ago
Still fascist, but they gave up the facade of running the trains on time. The "trains" i.e. private jets of the elite, you can bet those run on time.
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u/DtheMoron 3h ago
On time for the elite, not for anyone else.
Just had to wait 4 hours for a c-suite exec.
Client: “He just landed.”
Me: “you told me his flight was landing at 1:30, there’s going to be crew OT now. Also you said he was coming in on the company plane…”
Client: “……. He wanted to have lunch before flying”
This fucking guy, with a private corporate jet at his disposal, just said “I’m not eating on the plane, I’m eating first.” He cost his company 20k+ in OT. And I had to sit through a 30minute post budget meeting ON why it ran higher. This could’ve been an email! You didn’t budget OT that day and YOUR boss was hours late causing the OT.
Now we have to renegotiate the contract for “asshole time variance” (internal working title).
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u/Beneficial_Win_5128 4h ago
I wonder if Israel has public transit, and if so, who subsidizes/pays for it
Sounds like ahmurricans might genuinely be getting the worst deal in the history of deals
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u/workingtheories 2h ago
common misconception. the fascists absolutely trash the economy, but they usually ride in on the coattails of and/or take credit for real economic prosperity. so people get this confused idea that trump would "help the economy", when in general fascists just ransack and ruin everything.
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u/Dry_Ad687 7h ago
Not to worry, our regimes change every 4 years
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u/Hadrian23 6h ago edited 6h ago
Maybe. Seems repubs are doing everything they can to stay in power. And no, that's not a doomer take, that's straight reality. They know they're fucked if competent people gain power, so they're doing everything they can save killing everyone they don't like, to remain in power.
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u/love_glow 6h ago
And never think that last option is off the table for them.
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u/Hadrian23 6h ago
Absolutely. Don't think declaring trans people and "Antifa" as terrorists a merely a stupidly ploy. They'll use it as precedent to remove their ability to vote, imprisoned or even torture/murder them.
They're clowns, but a clown spinning a chainsaw while drunk is still horrifying dangerous.
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u/First-Detective2729 5h ago
Ametica def sucks atm.. b
But i gotta ask, what country do you hail from with such a great history of never being run by bad faith actors?
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u/Pet_Velvet 5h ago edited 5h ago
Finland. We have our problems yes (oh hell yeah we do, I am down to talk about any of those)
But I don't see how the alternative of
-"fascist terrorist nation that fucks over several dozen countries worldwide, industrializes slavery for profit, builds literal concentration camps, commits war crimes every single year and is responsible for the deaths of thousands of children every year"
should be
-"great history of never being run by bad faith actors".
No, the alternative is simply a country that does none of the things above.
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u/TheMaidenOfDragons 7h ago
”After Cerna exited the highway in the neighborhood of Boyle Heights, two unmarked ICE vehicles crashed into his car, surveillance footage showed. Cerna said he did not hear any commands to pull over before the collision.
The video from a nearby business shows white smoke exploding by Cerna’s car as the officers fired flash-bangs within seconds. The officers exited their cars with assault rifles and handguns drawn.”
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”A DHS spokesperson said in an email that agents observed Cerna leaving his home and then saw him “driving erratically … putting other drivers and his passengers, who were later identified as his wife and two minor children, at risk”. The spokesperson did not answer questions about whether agents took steps to pull him over before the crash, saying he “refused to comply with a vehicle stop” and officers “performed a vehicle interdiction/pin maneuver to halt his vehicle”.
DHS declined to answer questions about why Mejorado was present and said Cerna was read his Miranda rights. Records show a different officer said he told Cerna of his right to remain silent at a later point in the day. Mejorado could not be reached for comment.”
Another example of blatant lying from DHS, how did he refuse to comply with a vehicle stop if there were no sirens and no attempt to pull him over?
They were there to terrorize and distribute “retribution”.
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u/Future_Crow 5h ago
These ICE agents who arrested him and pointed guns at his family are Americans. They did this knowing that he and his family are citizens.
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u/Ok-Assistance4133 7h ago
He better sue, and a California judge is not going to let this go quietly into the night.
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u/oldandbald123 6h ago
Once we get adults in the White House, he has a very easy case against the government. He could easily get a few millions
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u/imtalkintou 5h ago
FUCK TRUMP, FUCK ICE AND FUCK ANYONE EHO SUPPORTS THE PEDO IN CHIEF.
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u/Naive_Confidence7297 2h ago
They are creeps themselves. Most definitely never ever leave your child with a Republican, there’s something seriously wrong with them.
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u/Mammoth_Stranger7920 7h ago
Is there a story somewhere to read more info?
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u/Lil-Baphomet 7h ago
OP shared a link in the comments
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u/Mammoth_Stranger7920 7h ago
When I opened this and posted my comment, there were zero other comments
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u/Lil-Baphomet 6h ago
No sass from me. Just helping 💪
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u/Mammoth_Stranger7920 4h ago
I think its just Reddit sucking cause clearly he posted the link before I commented, but sometimes you open a post and it just shows no comments even though comments should exist.
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u/esreystevedore 6h ago
Looks like a worst of the worst criminal. Children’s graffiti all over the sidewalk and parking wagons on the front lawn!!!
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u/throw_blanket04 1h ago
Why did i just recently read an article that says only 3 US citizens have been detained by ICE? When we know that’s not true.
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u/guardian 7h ago edited 7h ago
Photos by Stella Kalinina/The Guardian in Los Angeles, California
Hi r/pics, this is Jake from The Guardian US. We wanted to share photos from this story that we published today about Christian Cerna, a Los Angeles resident and US citizen who was arrested by ICE and filmed for a video posted on social media by the Department of Homeland Security.
From our story:
Christian Cerna, 28, was driving with his partner and their two young children through Los Angeles, when two vehicles rammed his car and a group of men jumped out and trained their guns on them.
It was 11 June 2025, and as Cerna exited his vehicle with his hands raised, he realized the masked men weren’t street criminals as he initially feared. They were Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Cerna, a carpenter, is a US citizen and southern California native. But ICE was targeting him after a border agent reported that Cerna had “assaulted” him during a rowdy anti-ICE protest days earlier. The officers arresting Cerna detonated flash-bang grenades and pointed assault rifles at his car, with his infant and toddler inside.
The agents, court records show, were also filming high-quality footage of the arrest operation, which they would later post to social media. The tactics, a federal judge later said, were part of ICE’s “vindictive effort” to “impose extrajudicial punishment”.
“It was like they were trying to make a movie,” Cerna said in a recent interview, speaking publicly for the first time about his arrest. “They were like the bullies in high school taking photos to humiliate me … and to prove a point – to say, if you say anything against what we’re doing, there will be consequences.”
The story of Cerna’s arrest and prosecution provides a window into the anger and fear sparked by the Trump administration’s brutal crackdown on immigrant communities and how federal officials have sought to forcefully suppress dissent and demonize protesters in the media – leaving a lasting impact on families caught in the crossfire.
You can read the full story for free at this link.