Senator Murray: My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that... (GRAPHIC)

[demmiblue]

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

— Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov) 2025-12-06T02:41:41.920Z

[sheshe2]

1. Her Statement:

December 5, 2025
Senator Murray Condemns Egregious Use of Force by ICE as Constituent is Mauled by Attack Dog, Demands Release from NWIPC to Receive Appropriate Medical Care
***(WARNING: Graphic Content)

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) issued the following statement condemning the violent and unwarranted assault of her constituent, Wilmer Toledo-Martinez, and calling for his immediate release from the Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC).

“On November 14, 2025, my constituent Wilmer was mauled by an ICE attack dog even though he has consistently explained that he was not resisting arrest or attempting to flee. His wife and two of his young children, ages two and three, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as he was violently attacked and dragged away. For hours afterward, he was denied even basic medical care following this unprovoked assault. The photos documenting his injuries are horrific. This should shock the conscience of every one of us. I do not want to live in an America where federal agents can sic attack dogs on peaceful residents with impunity and face no consequences.

“While Donald Trump’s entire mass deportation agenda has been nothing short of depraved, this is especially sickening. By now, everyone should realize, Trump is not going after violent criminals or the worst of the worst—he is terrorizing everyone, including U.S. citizens and their loved ones.

“I am calling for Wilmer’s immediate release from NWIPC—he has no criminal convictions, he poses no threat to the community, and he urgently needs appropriate medical care since ICE is denying him the treatment he requires. I am grateful for Wilmer’s willingness to let me share his story—there’s no telling how many similar stories are not being told for fear of retaliation. Every one of us must demand justice and accountability and every one of us must speak out against these kinds of human rights abuses.”

https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-condemns-egregious-use-of-force-by-ice-as-constituent-is-mauled-by-attack-dog-demands-release-from-nwipc-to-receive-appropriate-medical-care/

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Then have them arrested for the crime. Don't just post about it.

People in authority have to put a stop to these illegal activities. Not post pictures.

[sakabatou]

3. Those officers should be tied against a forced against a manchineel tree

and eat its fruit. Oh, and denied medical care.

[Traildogbob]

4. Yesterday I

Went to my VA for a CT scan. I have been going to the VA for decades. What shocked me, was first a vet coming out proudly and still wearing a trump hat, fucking idiot.
But my bigger shock was seeing security patrols dressed up like Navy Seals on patrol in a hostile theater of war., roaming up and down the halls. Are they scanning for veterans with dark skin tones to report to the Noem dogs,(those she hasn’t shot yet)
Never seen these patrols of fully armed security there ever.
What the hell has this shit GOP taken this country to? Russia Russia Russia?

[lindalou65]

5. This is just plain illegal

and must be stopped by whatever means. Yes, we do need to post anything and everything about these attacks by ICE and their attack dogs. People need to know what is going on. Citizens need to put pressure on their senators and representatives. Some cities already have organized citizens who are fighting these attacks as best they can. My city has not yet been affected at the level of Chicago, LA, New Orleans, etc. I am 78 but ready to support my city if need be.

[marble falls]

6. Hasn't ICE heard: as ye sow, so shall ye reap. Anger has a history of boiling over in the face of oppression. ...

... Temperatures are rising.

[paleotn]

9. And it won't be pretty.

Agreed. There's a point where average people have had enough.

[paleotn]

7. That's what nazis do. We shouldn't be surprised. Infuriated but not surprised.

[Tanuki]

8. The police dog as weapon of racial terror

https://daily.jstor.org/the-police-dog-as-weapon-of-racial-terror/

"Some of the most horrifically indelible images of the Civil Rights struggle show police dogs attacking young demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Birmingham became emblematic of animalistic police brutality against non-violent protestors—but it wasn’t unique at the time. And the racial weaponization of dogs isn’t just something of that time, as examples from Abu Ghraib (2004) to Ferguson (2014) show.

Scholar Tyler Wall doesn’t think it’s coincidental that K-9 units were introduced in police departments across the country during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s, however. Quoting advocates of the day, Wall writes that dogs were deployed as tools to “civilize the savagery of urban (dis)order by pacifying urban space.” In practice, this meant dogs were deployed in the “criminalization of the so-called Negro problem,” to “police the material and symbolic boundaries of the color line,” and to enforce the dehumanization of people of color.

“The mystical power of the police dog […] was its apparent ability to recognize the boundaries dividing those bodies in need of protection—white propertied bodies—from those darker bodies prowling on the boundaries of white bourgeois order.”
(More at link)