The stories of brutality and violations of people rights by the thugs that now make up the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) forces keep appearing daily. It is now apparently the case that those groups are attractive to violence-prone individuals who relish the chance to throw their weight around while wearing masks and assault anyone they dislike knowing that what normally would have landed them in prison is now fully protected by the Thug-in-Chief in the White House and his minions who occupy most of the high levels of government, including the attorney general Pam Bondi

(Non sequitur)

(Doonesbury)

But even through this dense mass of what would be criminal behavior if done by anyone else, some news stories still stick out, like this one where an attack dog was used to deliberately injure someone.

A US senator has condemned the Trump administration after she alleged that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “attack dog” mauled one of her constituents.

Democratic senator Patty Murray of Washington state said Wilmer Toledo-Martinez suffered “horrific” injuries while ICE agents detained him in November.

“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify, “Murray said in a statement. “Another agent, accompanied by a dog, was hiding nearby and released the dog on Wilmer shortly after he stepped outside.”
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“Following the attack, Wilmer was left shaking and dizzy, and at one point his vision went black, yet he was denied medical care for hours,” Murray said.

“He was eventually taken to a hospital, where he received stitches for his injuries. He was prescribed antibiotics and additional medication, but the antibiotics were not provided immediately, and the other medication was never provided.”
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Photos provided by Murray showed deep cuts to Toledo-Martinez’s side.

“This should shock the conscience of every one of us,” Murray said. “I do not want to live in an America where federal agents can sic attack dogs on peaceful residents with impunity and face no consequences.”
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News of the attack came as police in Vancouver, Washington, said they were investigating an incident during which an ICE agent appeared to run over a man’s foot during an arrest. Oregon Live reported that an ICE agent struck Jose Guadalupe Paniagua Calderon, 27, with his own vehicle during an arrest.

On Friday, US congresswoman Adelita Grijalva of Arizona said she was “sprayed in the face” by a chemical agent during a protest against a federal immigration raid at a Mexican restaurant in Tucson.

In a joint statement, Tucson’s mayor, Regina Romero, and its vice-mayor, Lane Santa Cruz, both Democrats, said the enforcement operation in their city had “rapidly escalated into violence against the public”.

Follow the above link for a photograph of the victim’s injuries as a result of being mauled by the dog

Senator Murray’s hope that “This should shock the conscience of every one of us” is unrealistic. It will shock some of us but many in the Trump’s MAGA cult will cheer such acts because for them, it will provide some kind of vicarious thrill, seeing it as showing Trump’s toughness, though violence perpetrated by armed thugs against ordinary people is a sign of cowardice. There seems to be a vicious streak that runs through them that gets a release when they see other people, especially those who belong to a different tribal group than them, being treated cruelly by government thugs.