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A man dressed as Batman scolded authorities at a city council meeting in Santa Clara, California, on January 27 for their inaction in relation to the likely deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the upcoming Super Bowl.

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00:00You
00:06What are we doing here?
00:09Serious
00:10You have had months to prepare for this
00:15Upcoming event
00:17I don't give a damn if this is outside of decor
00:20People are dying on our streets
00:23Every single day
00:24In this
00:25In this country
00:26Because
00:27We allow
00:28This federal government to walk all over
00:30You
00:31Look me in the eye
00:33Can any one of you go home to your children
00:35And tell them
00:36That you did everything you could
00:37To protect their classmates
00:39To protect
00:40Their grandparents
00:42To protect
00:43Them
00:44I don't think you can
00:45With the exception of park
00:46Thank you
00:48This needs to have happened
00:50Two months ago
00:52But you can still make it up
00:53And make
00:54Every single
00:55This policy
00:56On this little sheet of paper here
00:57Happened
00:58Right now
00:59Happened
01:00Before the super bowl
01:01Happened
01:02Before
01:04Potentially
01:05hundreds of masked men come into our city and kill people.
01:10I am disgusted by-
01:15by each and every one of you, with the exception of Councilmember Park.
01:20That you have not done something more.
01:23You need to affirm that-
01:25that no city resources will go to ICE.
01:28That no cooperation-
01:30will be given to them.
01:32You need to affirm to the-
01:35to the country-
01:36to the world-
01:38that you are not cowards.
01:40Because as of right now, I stand in front of a council of cowards.
01:45And if you do not act, you're not just cowards. You are traitors.
01:50Traitors to each and every individual you serve.
01:55to each and every individual that lives in this country.
01:59Legal-
02:00legal-
02:01or not.
02:03You need-
02:05you need to do some-
02:09you need to do some-
02:10something-
02:11about getting these policies into writing.
02:13Ensuring that-
02:15your officers do not cooperate with ICE.
02:17Ensuring that they cannot use city resources-
02:20that they cannot tap into city data-
02:22before more people die-
02:25yes, more people die.
02:28I don't think I need to go into-
02:30how many-
02:31how many-
02:32people have been shot-
02:33how many people have been-
02:34how many people have been-
02:35taken-
02:36how many children have been abducted and used as bait.
02:39I don't-
02:40I don't think I need to tell you that.
02:41You see it on the TV every single day.
02:44I don't want-
02:45I want you to sit back and watch.
02:46I want you-
02:47do something.
02:49Each and every one of these-
02:50people who have came up-
02:51has been very polite.
02:52Very earnest.
02:53Very kind.
02:54.
02:55pleading you-
02:56begging you-
02:57begging you-
02:58to do something.
02:59.
03:00I'm not begging you.
03:01I'm-
03:02demanding-
03:03that you act-
03:04with-
03:05.
03:05some semblance of a-
03:07spine.
03:08DO SOMETHING!
03:09.
03:10I'm-
03:12Ms. Lourdes.
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