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Letters from an American

July 25, 2025

Letters from an American

Heather Cox Richardson

Politics, News, History

53.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

July 25, 2025, we're going to end up shooting some of them.

0:12.2

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 Lainez-Mbrosio and two

0:23.9

undocumented men in it. Lanes Mbrosio's mother was driving the men to their landscaping job.

0:30.9

The patrol officer called U.S. Border Patrol agents. Lina Zembrosio recorded what happened next. The guardians Claire Considine reported

0:40.8

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

0:50.1

One man said he was undocumented. Okay, let's go, Lenas Ambrosio heard one of the officers say.

0:58.1

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

1:03.4

In the video, several officers pull the man from the van and tell him to,

1:08.3

Put your f***ing head down.

1:10.5

While Lenas Ambrosio can be heard telling his friend in Spanish not to resist,

1:15.5

the officers drop the man to the ground with a stun gun.

1:19.4

You're funny, bro, one officer says to another,

1:22.4

apparently the one who used the stun gun.

1:25.0

The officers laugh.

1:26.9

Another says, they're starting to resist more now,

1:30.1

to which an officer replies, we're going to end up shooting some of them. Later, the officers say,

1:36.7

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

1:46.3

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

1:52.7

He was being a d'I. That's the one we tased.

1:56.6

The officers arrested Lena Zambrosio, 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.

2:08.9

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

2:15.6

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

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