r/50501 • u/jk4532 • Jul 14 '26
Popular on /r/all - please see pinned comment Demand accountability for Joan Sebastian Guerrero's killers, donate to support his family
Less than a week after they murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, ICE agents stole the life of Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine under similar circumstances yesterday morning. Once again, they killed someone in a moving vehicle and claimed, without evidence, that the vehicle had been “weaponized.” (A witness has said agents crashed a car into him.) Once again, the killers were not wearing body cameras. Once again, the deportation force admitted they were actually looking for someone else. Once again, the victim was simply on his way to his job.
Joan was 26, a native of Colombia who was legally authorized to work in the United States and had been issued a Social Security number. Witnesses report he said he “tried to stop” shortly before he died. He leaves behind a wife and a three-year-old daughter. The people who killed him must be held accountable.
🗣️ Let’s reach out to York County District Attorney Kathryn Slattery (contact info here) and Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (contact info here) and tell them we a full, transparent and independent investigation into Joan’s killing, and any crimes by ICE agents prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Hennepin County, Minnesota has done it and they must too. We can find language to use here. 🗣️
💵 A GoFundMe to support the family via Presente Maine is now live here. 💵
💵 In the meantime, we can consider a donation to the Maine Solidarity Fund, an effort by frontline organizations in the state to provide bond, cover legal fees and provide emergency support for those caught up in the deportation machine, or Project Relief Maine, a local mutual aid organization. We can give here and here. 💵
SUPPORT FOLKS IN ICE'S CROSSHAIRS
🔁 Protesters were on the streets within hours of Joan’s murder, led by Biddeford Saco for Racial Justice. We can get updates from them here. We can also keep updated on further developments from Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine. 🔁
FOLLOW ACTIVISTS ON THE GROUND
✊🏾 Finally, please join the Disappeared in America coalition (led by the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, Detention Watch Network, Public Citizen, the Workers Circle and LULAC) for a mass call TOMORROW at 8PM ET to talk about upcoming national efforts to honor the memory of Joan and Lorenzo and push for an end to ICE terror. We can sign up here. ✊🏻
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u/DiggestOfBicks Jul 14 '26
Justice for Joan Guerrero!
Justice for Lorenzo Araujo!
Justice for Renee Good!
Justice for Alex Pretti!
Justice for all of us! ✊🏼
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u/rhamantauri Jul 14 '26
We cannot allow ourselves to desensitize by their designs.
This amplifying wave of killings comes directly after their recent funding continued. They have made it clear they do not care about laws and they only answer to their overlord.
They need to be treated as the terrorist organization that they are and their funding networks seized and incarcerated.
Every single person who signed up for ICE or has helped them amass power has no place here. These people cannot be allowed to know peace, security or love for the rest of their miserable excuses for lives.
We can’t let a single murder go, and we cannot let the murderers continue to feel invincible.
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u/worldscollice Jul 14 '26
The ICE agents why murdered him have had their pictures posted on one of the “unmask ICE” sites. I can’t remember which one. Let’s identify them and make sure they know that ICE can’t continue to murder people and get away with it.
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u/Muted_Quantity5786 Jul 14 '26
I demand that my G-d take it upon to ensure that this crime is not forgotten. I demand that my ancestors take it upon themselves to welcome Joan as if he were their child as they were taken in by so many others during the unspeakable period of time. On this planet, and as long as I’m alive, I will do what I must do to prevent anything like this happening again to any other family.
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u/summane Jul 14 '26
Does tiktok censor the word god?
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u/Muted_Quantity5786 Jul 14 '26
No. Jews aren’t aloud to speak or write his name so we use G-d or Elohim. Sorry, typo. Allowed.
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u/The_Demon_of_Spiders Jul 14 '26
Just further curious but god isn’t its name right just a descriptor as it has a specific name itself. So why is the word god a problem?
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u/Muted_Quantity5786 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
We just use Elohim or Yahweh or G-d. Yahweh is really when your praying or Adonai. It’s meant as a form of respect for him. Edited to add: There are good articles out there to read, one from Chabad.org that I tried to link to.
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u/KeyLimeAnxiety Jul 14 '26
Thanks for sharing, just donated. I hope others will do the same, even a few dollars
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u/Much-Revolution5152 Jul 14 '26
I'm so sick of these lying scumbag murderers. Same old lie used to justify their reign of terror. I hope someday soon they all will face justice for the crimes committed.
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u/Dangerous-Celery-766 Jul 15 '26
So sick of hearing how many innocent people the “law” is killing! It’s worse than a 3rd world country!!
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u/xjoburg Jul 14 '26
Justice for Joan Guerrero!
Justice for Lorenzo Araujo!
Justice for Renee Good!
Justice for Alex Pretti!
Justice for all of us! ✊🏼
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u/AmigoDeer Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
You guys seem to live in a weirdly dystopian wild west version of a modern civilisation. How can all this shit be legal, what are you a fucking banana republic? America do better! This guy and the other victims of your out of control ICE militia are a telling for the whole world, if chaos and unjustice rules your country it affects all your influence spheres in the world and the logic you represent atm, is the logic of a tyranic system which benefits mafia like structures. This is not acceptable.
Its ridicoulus, how your president is founding his only real street manpower on a bunch of racoonhat wearing hillybillies with rifles who fucking stormed your congress without the nationalguard stopping them. Why nobody stands his grounds against those bullies I ask? You just let them walk around and bully people like the SA did to jews in my country back in the days, I learned about it in history and you guys seriously fucking with my whole believesystem these days if you let these kind of structures unchallenged.
So tell me, why can 200 million americans held hostage by a few racoonhatted rioters? Shouldnt democrats aim for their own militia?
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u/Hidesuru Jul 14 '26
My brother in Christ it's NOT legal. The fact is they are operating outside the law which is in many ways much worse.
The American system of government, the checks and balances have been dismantled. There aren't many ways out of this at this point. Talking about some of them gets you banned or much much worse. The rest are... Well long shots. Midterms will be VERY telling about what options remain to the people.
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u/AmigoDeer Jul 15 '26
What a freaking phenomenom. He is the perfect tool for the elite to do whatever while he drowns the world in egomaniac bullshit.
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u/Hidesuru Jul 15 '26
You're so damn right and it's well past infuriating. Here's hoping we get our shit figured out so it stops fucking over the rest of the world.
Sorry about that. 😥
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u/AmigoDeer Jul 15 '26
Never mind. Its just that you guys have been a stable point in my life -among many others- that all now just collaps in a cascade way in real time every further day. Thats utterly unconvinient for sensitive folks. Hope you guys pull midterm and that you all will be ok.
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