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AZLD4Candidate

(6,633 posts)
Sat May 3, 2025, 08:31 AM May 3

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.
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Tennessee police release video of Kilmar Abrego Garcia traffic stop in 2022 (Original Post) AZLD4Candidate May 3 OP
So he hildegaard28 May 3 #1
" Abrego Garcia was never charged with a crime." Botany May 3 #2
Last I heard, cops in Tennessee weren't exactly lenient on crime nt SouthBayDem May 3 #10
They are NOT Jilly_in_VA May 4 #12
in 2025, Mr. Garcia was illegally detained and then trafficked to El Salvador Marthe48 May 3 #3
Deport him to Central Greenland. multigraincracker May 3 #4
Who, the orange slime? Jilly_in_VA May 4 #13
He's hauling these people for money. patphil May 3 #5
Carpooling to work is a crime now? IronLionZion May 3 #6
TX to MD through MO does not run through TN. hurple May 3 #7
I had to read it twice Lulu KC May 3 #9
Human trafficking? Oh no! Grokenstein May 3 #8
Trump has been charged with a total of 88 felony counts across four criminal investigations. DoBW May 3 #11

hildegaard28

(499 posts)
1. So he
Sat May 3, 2025, 08:33 AM
May 3

Was driving his coworkers to work, and the cops automatically assume he was human trafficking? What a joke.

Marthe48

(20,704 posts)
3. in 2025, Mr. Garcia was illegally detained and then trafficked to El Salvador
Sat May 3, 2025, 08:49 AM
May 3

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.



IronLionZion

(48,968 posts)
6. Carpooling to work is a crime now?
Sat May 3, 2025, 11:30 AM
May 3

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.

Lulu KC

(8,109 posts)
9. I had to read it twice
Sat May 3, 2025, 02:39 PM
May 3

It looks like though they originated in TX, they'd been working in MO before going to MD.

Grokenstein

(6,011 posts)
8. Human trafficking? Oh no!
Sat May 3, 2025, 02:07 PM
May 3

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)
11. Trump has been charged with a total of 88 felony counts across four criminal investigations.
Sat May 3, 2025, 03:49 PM
May 3

Found guilty of 34 ... this is the criminal you've been looking for

https://people.com/donald-trump-every-criminal-charge-explained-7567024

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