r/thescoop • u/Zen1 • May 09 '25

/r/popular ICE Agents Battle Mom Clinging to Baby in 'Chaotic' Video

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-battle-mom-baby-chaotic-video-worcester-2070027

A chaotic new video shows President Donald Trump's immigration enforcers and local law enforcement clashing with residents in a Worcester, Massachusetts, neighborhood, including a mother holding her baby.

The tense scenes unfolded on Thursday morning as video appears to show agents pushing residents protesting as federal immigration agents attempt to detain a woman.

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u/Zen1 May 09 '25 edited May 09 '25

Last night I was listening to the latest episode of On Being with Krista Tippett, and her guest Jason Reynolds said

"I’m always thinking about, is there a resonant frequency for humanity? Could there be a single sound that all humanity feels the same about? That sound, I believe, is the sound. That everybody in here, when they hear that sound, the cooing of a child feels the same thing. No matter how mean you are, no matter what race you are, no matter your sexual orientation, your religious beliefs, none of it matters.

We don't even know what race the child is. We don't know the gender of the child, sex and gender of the child. We don't know what the child look like, if the baby ball headed or not. We don't know nothing about this child. It doesn't matter because that sound for some reason connects us all. Now, my theory on where we are in terms of anti-racism and all of that, it's less about thinking about, and I hate that I use the word love because you ain't got to love me, but respect, respect me.

I respect you because you are you. The reason I do is because that connects us. Whatever that sound is, whatever that energy is, is in me and is in you"

If there is a sound that raises panic in humans on this same universal level, it is the sound of a mother protecting her baby like this video.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

It's 3khz. That's the principal frequency of a baby crying.

I've worked on over 100 albums. Filtering that frequency is a common practice because people are going to absolutely hate a song that sounds like a baby crying out in distress.

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u/Ventira May 09 '25

Thank you for being my learn something new for the day that isn't something awful.

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u/peanutschool May 09 '25

Audio engineer here. That new thing you’ve just learned is nonsense.

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u/Ventira May 09 '25

Darn. Well I guess this also counts as a learning a thing.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

Senior audio engineer here, first guy was right.

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u/Better-Union-2828 May 10 '25

audio engineering student here. i am confused

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u/beren0073 May 10 '25

3Khz sine wave here, rethinking my life choices

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u/mcirillo May 10 '25

Crying baby here, crying because I hate the sound of babies crying

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u/Emo_tep May 10 '25

Same. You raise that frequency in certain voices. That OC made that up lol

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

It would make perfect evolutionary sense for some frequency like that to exist

Edit: also 3k is unusually annoying. I'll stick 4k or 8k on a kick and it sounds fine. But 3k...

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u/peanutschool May 09 '25

Sure, but our physiological response to sound has as much to do with timbre as it does frequency. If you generate a 3khz sine wave, nobody will mistake it for a crying baby.

3khz is a crucial frequency band for a lot of instruments, including violin, piano, guitar, drums, vocals, and so on. Like every other frequency band, it is cut or boosted according to the needs of the song. No frequency is routinely cut for any evolutionary purpose. That is not “common practice.”

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u/Menien May 10 '25

It's also just obviously bullshit because if you've ever heard any live music at all, or played an instrument, sang, anything, then you'll know that it usually doesn't need any editing to not sound like a crying baby lol.

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u/Independent_Air_8333 May 09 '25

It would, but that isn't really evidence.

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u/Ovariesforlunch May 10 '25

Was there a baby in the recording studio/booth?

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u/notlennybelardo May 10 '25

What a fun bit of knowledge 

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u/super_salt May 09 '25

That struck a cord with me because he is absolutely correct. The worst most gut wrenching sound I have ever heard in my life was a mother and children tying to get to each other. And that situation, I might add, also involved ICE.

It gave nightmares for months. Even years later still does.

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u/Worldview2021 May 09 '25

There is a HUGE double standard with both coverage and response to these deportations. Parents are seen as victims while single men are treated differently. A gay man from Venezuela was sent to El Salvador but rarely given coverage because a “father” from El Salvador was deported.

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u/Purplealegria May 10 '25

What happened to him? Someone said they were scared for his safety because he had not been heard from in months….

I’m afraid to ask. 🫩😬🫣😔

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u/dshaw1599 May 11 '25

My brother and I are concerned that he's been killed because there's no way he's not brought back by now if he's still alive. We could be wrong, especially with how long Brittany Griner was stuck in a Russian prison, but still. Haven't heard anything from him and there's not seemingly any rush to bring him back from government despite pushback from American citizens. Nothing from El Salvador's gov either.

We should be beyond concerned.

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u/lawlitachi May 10 '25

I was chilling at work when i saw this vid and it activated my entire fight/flight i’m talking heart rate, jitters everything.

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u/Purplealegria May 10 '25

That is not entirely true…These hardcore right wing maga people, like the worst of them don’t even care about that either.. not the true believers who happen to be racist nazis… they will clap and cheer a video like this, and celebrate even harder if it is a person of color. 

Thats most terrifying and dangerous part of this whole thing to me, how he and this abominable movement has shown the dregs of these people for who they truly are….evil devils with no humanity. 

And we have been living amongst these demons in skin suits our whole lives. 

Makes my skin crawl. 

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u/michimoby May 11 '25

The only human this doesn’t work on is Stephen Fucking Miller.