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highplainsdem

(58,802 posts)
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 07:29 PM Oct 14

Musician playing 'Ghostbusters' outside ICE facility is arrested by agents: 'Why are they targeting a clarinetist?'

Source: Independent

A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility, which has recently become a site of daily clashes between federal agents and demonstrators.

Oriana Korol, 38, was playing “Ghostbusters” with her group — the Unpresidented Brass Band — during a massive protest outside the ICE facility in Oregon’s largest city Sunday evening when federal agents arrested her, her loved ones said. She has since been taken to a jail in Washington as her husband and bandmates demand answers about her arrest.

“Why are they targeting a clarinet player? A clarinet player standing on the sidewalk far away from the street, following instructions,” her husband wondered, noting they share a three-year-old child.

Korol was “peacefully protesting,” her band said in a social media post Monday. “Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed.”

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Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/portland-ice-clarinet-arrested-protest-b2845329.html

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wcmagumba

(5,011 posts)
1. Does this mean ICE thinks of themselves as "Ghosts"?
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 07:45 PM
Oct 14

WTAF? "I ain't afraid of no ghosts"...Boo on you ICE Holes...

groundloop

(13,397 posts)
5. Bagpipe player..... anyone who plays a bagpipe should be deported. But definitely not a clarinetist.
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 08:47 PM
Oct 14


Seriously, this is some top notch fascist bullshit.

Fuck ICE, Fuck Fascists, and Fuck Trump.

Reader Rabbit

(2,735 posts)
8. Was she the only female band member?
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 09:16 PM
Oct 14

I can see ICE targeting women for brutal treatment for a variety of reasons, none of which are honorable.

BidenRocks

(2,457 posts)
9. Remember the idiot Tea Party?
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 09:42 PM
Oct 14

How is Chumpistan working out for them, I wonder?
They wanted this America.

I hope they are suffering!

SleeplessinSoCal

(10,325 posts)
10. Are the amoral monsters planning to slither back into society...
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 10:49 PM
Oct 14

...after we rid ourselves of this abhorrent policy and illegal fed agents. I hope we can track these thugs down and either tar and feather them, or at the very least, sentence them to community service.

angrychair

(11,336 posts)
11. These people are demented
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 10:55 PM
Oct 14
our law enforcement will continue to remove murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and terrorists out of our country," McLaughlin said. "This chaos and violence will end under President Trump. Law and order will prevail."


Not sure who this McLaughlin person is but someone needs to put her in a straightjacket and check her internet history.

In all seriousness this is absolutely not ok and the language being used by these people is increasingly violent and unhinged.

Seriously folks, watch your backs and remember your rights.

Wonder Why

(6,306 posts)
13. In the original movie, the ghosts wore white sheets and obeyed Fearless Leader. ICE realized it was them in disguise.
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 08:36 AM
Oct 15

muriel_volestrangler

(105,080 posts)
15. Taken to Washington State, and kept in custody for 2 days
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 01:18 PM
Oct 15

Charged with assaulting a federal officer, eventually. It seems someone was being chased by ICE, they were tackled at her feet, and she was arrested.

Prairie Gates

(6,610 posts)
16. ICE is bothered by noise - the whistles, honking, and Yakety Sax are getting to them
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 01:21 PM
Oct 15

They are arresting people for honking horns in Chicago. They hate it.

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