Agents with guns busted through a front door in the Twin Cities, dragged a man outside in his underwear, and stood him in subzero air while a 4-year-old watched from the window.
His name is ChongLy âScottâ Thao. He and his family say heâs a decades-long U.S. citizen with no record.
I wore a badge. You donât kick a door without a judge-signed warrant or a real exigent circumstance. Thatâs the Fourth Amendment getting tossed in the trash.
They called it a âtargeted operationâ for two sex offenders. The family says those people donât live there. When his daughter-in-law went to grab his ID, agents refused to look at it. Then they handcuffed him, marched him into the street, tossed a blanket over his shoulders, and left him humiliated in the cold.
City leaders in St. Paul are calling it unacceptable. Chiefs say theyâre drowning in complaints about federal teams doing warrantless stops and rough IDs. This isnât a one-off. Itâs a pattern: fear used as a tool.
Hereâs the part that matters to every one of us: if a man whoâs lived here for decades can be treated like this in his own house, none of us are safeânot journalists, not protesters, not your family asleep next door.
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