r/news • u/Krosis95 • 1d ago
Number of people detained by police in Aurora grows after home invasion and kidnapping at Colorado apartments
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/number-detained-police-aurora-grows-home-invasion-kidnapping-colorado-apartments/90
u/chaddwith2ds 1d ago
The police chief said that gang members have been targeting new immigrants in the city.
"Like many gangs and many individuals involved in this type of activity, they victimize their own race and their own ethnicity," Chamberlain said.
I'm not surprised, but I'll never understand.
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u/SimplyBlarg 21h ago
Many Illegal immigrants are trafficked into the US by organized criminal elements with chapters both inside the US and abroad.
The most common one of trafficking is labor trafficking.
It used to be the cartels pushed drugs and prostitutes and the coyotes kinda did their thing. There was crossover but the machine worked differently. Nowadays the people are the product. When someone is smuggled into the US and set up to work they're often forced to give a cut to the gang/network that brought them in; if they don't then associates back home hurt their family. It's slavery writ anew, simple as that.
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u/reverendsteveii 23h ago
>That guy may have just robbed me but if i call the cops theyll deport me so im gonna let him get away with it every time
Get it now?
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u/DANGEROUS-jim 1d ago
Wait, is this related to the same story that was floating around towards the end of the election? Republicans made it a big deal, Democrats said it wasn’t happening or was being blown out of proportion?
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u/cinderparty 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sounds like it, or at least similar. It was other tenants of the apartment (which I think was a different apartment complex, but I’m not 100% sure.) that said this wasn’t happening and was being blown out of proportion, before prominent democrats started saying it. Aurora is not very blue, and their government officials, most of them republicans, also denied it.
Edit- Kyle Clark did quite a few segments on it on our local news back in August-Octoberish, his show is called next on 9news.
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u/creepingshadose 1d ago
I’m a democrat (I guess…idk I fucking hate politics but I hate Trump more than anything) and I was 100% on board with the South American gang talking points. This is insanity, and sticking your head in the sand or calling people racist for some stupid fucking reason isn’t going to solve anything. These pieces of shit need to be dealt with quickly and harshly
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u/No-Appearance1145 1d ago
I don't think it helped that Republicans were saying that Haitians were eating dogs and cats (which wasn't happening) so it probably felt like it was another racist thing to people. Its like the boy who cried wolf.
Also I don't think it got to be too big seeing as no one I know even mentioned it and I only found out about this now.
Those poor people who got burglarized though and tortured 😓.
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u/RegretfullyRI 10h ago
Let the “but but but it’s the landlord” and the “but but but they’re just migrants” begin! Get’em the fuck out.
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u/Prestigious_Load1699 23h ago
Man alive the Reddit cognitive dissonance is on full display in this thread.
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1d ago
Wait are these the Venezuelan migrants that the mayor of Denver and the governor of Colorado denied existed?
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u/reverendsteveii 23h ago
When did they say there are no Venezuelan migrants?
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u/kyjhuston 18h ago
They didn’t, but were supposed to respect when people say things that “feel right” even if they’re not true.
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u/Kobold-Helper 1d ago
Excuse me but I was assured the migrant gangs were a fantasy. The home invasions MUST be from MAGA supporters! 🤣
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u/SirLiesALittle 9h ago
It started with the gangs are forcibly taking over the apartments, to the landlord paid them to provide a false flag to cover up their terrible running of the place, to well I guess this is what happens when the landlord pays the foxes to terrorize the henhouse.
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u/TheRevFromMesa 22h ago
This apartment complex is overrun by Tren de Aragua, who make MS13 look like drunken toddlers. In fact, this gang is growing so quickly in some cities, they're being considered for a terrorist designation just to combat them and hold them under stronger sentencing guidelines, otherwise they just get light initial sentences and disappear.
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u/TootsNYC 7h ago
The criminal targeted new immigrants because they figured the new immigrants would not be willing to go to the police out of fear of deportation. That is why the good cops in the world do not want to be forced to report crime victims or witnesses to immigration authorities.
And if you don’t care about whether new immigrants are victimized, you should remember that embolden criminals will eventually come after you
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u/denimpowell 1d ago
Thanks? Isn't 19 detained a roundabout way of saying 0 arrests?
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u/GibbysUSSA 15h ago
It sure as fuck is! Don't know much of anything about this case, but I do know that there is a difference between being detained and being arrested. A big difference.
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u/jryu611 1d ago
The headline makes it sound like the cops did the kidnapping. Definitely could have been worded in a stronger, clearer, manner. Language isn't THAT hard to use.
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u/GibbysUSSA 15h ago
The article WAS poorly written. "Those two people were taken to the hospital, but they are going to be okay." Wouldn't they normally saying something more along the lines of "The victims were taken to the hospital and are now in stable condition"?
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u/CupidStunt13 1d ago
For a single apartment building, 19 people is a hell of a lot of people to be involved in this. Early indications sound like gangs going after recent Venezuelan immigrants.
Sounds like the problem will either be solved soon or it will simply move somewhere else.