Thao, who has been a U.S. citizen for decades, said that as he was being detained he asked his daughter-in-law to find his identification but the agents told him they didn’t want to see it.
Instead, as his 4-year-old grandson watched and cried, Thao was led out in handcuffs wearing only sandals and underwear with just a blanket wrapped around his shoulders.
Videos captured the scene, which included people blowing whistles and horns and neighbors screaming at the more than a dozen gun-toting agents to leave Thao’s family alone.
Thao said agents drove him “to the middle of nowhere” and made him get out of the car in the frigid weather so they could photograph him. He said he feared they would beat him. He was asked for his ID, which agents earlier prevented him from retrieving.
Agents eventually realized that he was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, Thao said, and an hour or two later, they brought him back to his house. There they made him show his ID and then left without apologizing for detaining him or breaking his door, Thao said.
I guess fires never happen in your country? Also do you not have windows?
Uh… fires? In italy’s houses? Rarely. Our houses are mostly build in concrete, bricks and other non-flammable materials (the old ones are build in stone). So it’s rare to see a fire here.
And yes, we do have windows:
If you live in the ground floor, most of them have bars, usually on steel (but sometimes in stone/concrete if the house is really old).
If you don’t live in the ground floor, we don’t have bars, but the shutters are made of very resistant material so they are not easy to break. Also, windows are usually with double glass (to insulate the house better). They’d have a hard time breaking in a house here.
If a fire happens, you usually enter through a window (the shutters are not usually down) or simply ask a neighbor for a key.
However, if someone here wants to rob a house, they’ll try drilling a hole in the wall to enter because they know is the fastest way compared to the rest.