Tennessee police release video of Kilmar Abrego Garcia traffic stop in 2022
Source: AP
Authorities in Tennessee have released video of a 2022 traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland construction worker who became the face of U.S. immigration policy after his erroneous deportation to El Salvador.
The body-camera footage shows a calm and friendly exchange between officers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Abrego Garcia. He was pulled over for speeding in a vehicle with eight passengers and said they’d been working in Missouri.
Officers then discussed among themselves their suspicions of human trafficking because nine people were traveling without luggage. One of the officers said: “He’s hauling these people for money.” Another said he had $1,400 in an envelope.
Abrego Garcia was never charged with a crime, while the officers allowed him to drive on with only a warning about an expired driver’s license, according to a report about the stop released last month by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The report said he was traveling from Texas to Maryland, via Missouri, to bring in people to perform construction work.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/kilmar-abrego-garcia-traffic-stop-tennessee-91bc2890768163671c71eb55420b59ee?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
The smoking gun! Confirmation bias at its finest.
Expect guilt by innuendo by MAGAts as proof he is a bad man and in MS13. And expect the media to carry their water and polish their ax-handles.

hildegaard28
(499 posts)Was driving his coworkers to work, and the cops automatically assume he was human trafficking? What a joke.
Botany
(74,276 posts)End of story.
SouthBayDem
(32,669 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(11,994 posts)I lived there for 35 years and I oughta know!
Marthe48
(20,704 posts)felon gets money for kidnapping people, whether directly or in the form of donations from his lunatic cult members.
The only reason Mr. Garcia hasn't been ransomed is that felon won't allow it, in spite of court rulings telling him to do so.
multigraincracker
(35,725 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(11,994 posts)Certainly not Abrego Garcia. He was just hauling co-workers, FFS.
patphil
(7,869 posts)Buses do that all the time.
IronLionZion
(48,968 posts)Yep, every construction worker needs to drive their own individual vehicle or it's human trafficking.
Notice the police didn't arrest or charge anyone with any crime.
hurple
(1,342 posts)The report does not make sense.
Lulu KC
(8,109 posts)It looks like though they originated in TX, they'd been working in MO before going to MD.
Grokenstein
(6,011 posts)Well, true or not that certainly removes his Constitutional right to due process!! /s
What say you, renowned sex pest Matt Gaetz?
DoBW
(2,520 posts)Found guilty of 34 ... this is the criminal you've been looking for
https://people.com/donald-trump-every-criminal-charge-explained-7567024