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There are machines like that where you can sell old phones. Once the phone is assessed for value, the door slides shut and it's dumped in a bin. Our local Walmart has one.

If you believe the processing of a donated phone will reliably wipe it clean then donating it could be a more effective way of making the phone disappear than literally throwing it away, and less work than smashing it.

It does seem like something they'd do. It is possible they chucked it or dropped it somewhere, as they tend to just randomly lose shit, like flash bangs. And then someone else picked it up and got cash for it.

Fun fact: those privately-owned sell back kiosk machines have security cameras. See it? I wonder if some journalist might want to contact the company.

Probably a bunch of stolen phones in that machine.

Obstruction. Ditching the evidence in a manner that these mooks thought would make it impossible to recover.

Just your average Kavanaugh stop… “A minor inconvenience…”

They're criminal scum.

They needed the money to buy some testosterone pills

Can't stop finding goddamned child molesters in the administration.

Theyre criminals through and through. Assault, kidnapping, theft. Thats worth what, 10-20 years in prison before we attach terrorism and hate crimes? Make a list. These thugs will pay like the Nazis paid.

Gold fillings.

Sounds like armed robbery.

Past ethnic cleansings / genocides use this method, they self-fund through confiscations and sales. It's also a way to expand the target audience as they just start to follow the money.

These vicious fuckers

"Arnoldo had filmed much of the incident, but agents had taken his phone. He used Find My to locate the phone — at a vending machine for used electronics miles away, close to an ICE detention center."

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A kiosk where you can trade your old phones for cash? Can’t imagine how that might be abused.

Fun fact: Those sell back kiosk machines have security cameras. See it?

They’ll get around to gold fillings soon

I've been wondering that too. Usually it is the County Medical Examiner/Coroner who handles the body and does the autopsy. I haven't heard even a peep either. I'm sure her family wants her back.

Secret police gonna secret police.

It's amazing Tech. It takes the price of the phone when new, removes the marketing & hype, and returns a price in the high double digits.

“Your honor, we were never trained to *not* sell a phone of an arrestee to a vending machine” “Excellent point. Not guilty.” The Justice System!

likely they scoop up whatever is left and either keep it or pawn it. yknow like their nazi forebearers did in ww2.

That they did it in one of those kiosks, if that's true, is really telling of just how much systemic abuse is going on. Going to need a @davidsimon901.bsky.social series when this is all done.

That’s a very reasonable theory that unfortunately is just not insane enough for our current reality. bsky.app/profile/kenw...

no they meant sold. it was in a vending machine for used electronics near the detention centre.

Yeah like. Not the worst part of this and they’re immune to hypocrisy, but for the people who are getting “the worst criminals” they sure do exactly what gangs or cartels do.

That detail was what I responded to immediately, too. Wtf. They are hiring criminals.

"Victor's spoils" for the thugs. This is how it's run now. Get yours.

they hire anyone, does anyone know what it takes to not get hired by ICE cause i bet an illegal immigrant would have like a 50/50 chance of getting hired

not a surprise at all. drug cops always steal money/drugs from people they arrested...ICE thugs--continuing that "law enforcement" tradition newrepublic.com/post/204750/...

ICE been routinely confiscating all kinds of property during these Gestapo nonsense and just keeping and/or selling the items. They been doing it the whole time.

When they raided the apartment building at 4am in Chicago they *cleared out* the 6 victims apartments - took all their belongings in a moving truck. It's part of the cruelty they want to inflict, not random

It *should* if DOJ were doing anything worthwhile.

We are Russia now. Next, ICE will be stealing our toilets and washing machines.

"Stole" is kind of a necessary precondition, but!..

Yeah, it's astounding. He got his phone back by using Find My Phone and finding it ... in a vending machine for "used electronics" located ... right by an ICE detainment facility. There's no accounting at all yet for how much property these ICE bandits are stealing from people they assault.

Nope it was tracked to a vendor of used electronics. They fucking pawned it.

Liberals always give the benefit of a doubt to fascists. ‘How do we know that another brown kid didn’t steal it!!!!!’

I don't find it hard to believe at all that an ICE agent took the phone and sold it for some extra cash. These guys appear to ignore procedure at will, so what's to stop them from seizing a detainee's personal property and "forgetting" to return it or log it as evidence?

ICE agents are criminals, not law enforcement - and they should be treated as such by every patriotic American. See a criminal, shoot a criminal. Try THAT in a small town…