July 25, 2025

July 25, 2025.

We're going to end up shooting some of them.

At 9 o'clock on the morning of May 2, 2025, a Florida Highway Patrol officer pulled over a van with 18-year-old U.S.

citizen Kenny Lanez Ambrosio and two undocumented men in it.

Laines Ambrosio's mother was driving the men to their landscaping job.

The patrol officer called U.S.

Border Patrol agents.

Lainez Ambrosio recorded what happened next.

The Guardian's Claire Considine reported the story today.

The video shows a female officer asking if anyone in the van is in the U.S.

illegally.

One man said he was undocumented.

Okay, let's go.

Laines Ambrosio heard one of the officers say.

An officer popped the door of the van open and grabbed the man by the neck in a chokehold.

In the video, several officers pull the man from the van and tell him to put your fing head down.

While Lenaz Ambrosio can be heard telling his friend in Spanish not to resist, the officers drop the man to the ground with a stun gun.

You're funny, bro, one officer says to another, apparently the one who used the stun gun.

The officers laugh.

Another says, they're starting to resist more now, to which an officer replies, we're going to end up shooting some of them.

Later, the officers say, God damn, woo, nice, adding, just remember you can smell that inaudible $30,000 bonus.

Diamond Walker and Valentina Palm of the Palm Beach Post added that an officer explained the stun gun.

He was being a d ⁇ .

That's the one we tased.

The officers arrested Lanez Ambrosio, a U.S.

citizen, and held him for six hours in a cell at a customs and border patrol station, then charged him with obstruction without violence.

He was sentenced to 10 hours of community service and a four-hour anger management course.

84 years ago today, on July 25th, 1941, Emmett Till was born in Chicago, Illinois.

In August 1955, when he was 14 years old, Till went to visit relatives in a small Mississippi town.

After the wife of a white man named Roy Bryant accused the black boy of flirting with her, Bryant and his half-brother, J.W.

Millam, kidnapped Till, brutally beat him, mutilated him, shot him in the back of the head, and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River.

In September 1955, an all-white jury took just over an hour to find Bryant and Millam not guilty.

A member of the jury said, we wouldn't have taken so long if we hadn't stopped to drink pop.

Immune from further prosecution, Bryant and Millem told their story to Look magazine for $4,000.

They said they had kidnapped and beaten Till to frighten him, but when he refused to beg for mercy, they drove him to the river.

Millem asked, You still as good as I am?

And when Till answered, yeah,

they shot him,

body had been recovered from the Tallahatchie, the county sheriff directed that the body be buried quickly.

But Till's mother insisted that her son's body be returned to Chicago.

There, she insisted on an open casket funeral.

Let the world see what I have seen, she said.

Letters from from an American was written and read by Heather Cox Richardson.

It was produced at Soundscape Productions, Dedham, Massachusetts.

Recorded with music composed by Michael Moss.