the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
May 12, 2025
On May 8, Worcester, Massachusetts police arrested two in an incident caused by an ICE arrest. The teenaged daughter of a Brazilian woman, mother of three, tried to stand in front of the ICE car holding her mother. A neighbor asked an ICE officer to show a warrant, to which he replied, “We don’t have to show you anything.” ICE called in the Worcester police, claiming residents were “hostile” to ICE.
Did the Worcester police de-escalate the situation? No. Four officers chased the 16-year-old daughter, pulling the girl to the ground and pushing her face into the sidewalk, an action caught on a video that went viral online.
Not only was the 16-year-old arrested and charged, another neighbor, a woman running for the local school board, was also arrested and charged with assaulting an officer. This woman allegedly threw a liquid at the officer. The woman and the teenager were later released, but the mother was taken away by ICE and the family currently does not know her whereabouts.
The woman arrested later told the media, “It’s disgusting seeing ICE across the country tearing families apart.” The state of Massachusetts has a law against local police helping ICE, yet the governor later stated the police were just doing “crowd control.” The Brazilian woman’s neighbors clearly disagreed and were not inclined to just be run roughshod over.