• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Unless the state puts out an arrest warrant for these people, they are essentially just letting it happen. Should be an open and shut prison sentence for that officer kneeing him. Even the dumnass next to him tried holding his knee to stop them, then realized he wasn’t going to stop and looked around for cameras and exited the situation because he knew they were commiting battery

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    Do these guys feel like big men when it takes 6 of them to take down one average built/sized guy? Or when they shoot an innocent woman in the face? Do they feel tough decked out in their body armor and tactical weaponry when going against average civilians?

    Because they shouldn’t. They look ridiculous. And they ooze fragile, insecure man-child energy.

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    3 days ago

    I saw this guy yesterday. Was waiting for a bus to the march, and he talked to us waiting. So sad we’re all living thru this.

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    Paramilitary means largely volunteer organizations even if their leadership gets (or not) government funding. Salaried by US empire ICE agents are not paramilitary. Calling them paramilitary might imply genuine intrinsic motivation instead of salaried cog.

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      “It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”

      Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor


      These people – these fascist that are willfully signing up to hunt, abduct, beat, torture, and kill our neighbors – are not simply a cog in the machine that have no humanity after years of military in service of an empire. The truth is much more horrific. These are just regular American bigots with no training, emboldened by a regime that wants power above all else. They have voluntarily given up their humanity to become a modern day gestapo, not because they are brave or good, quite the opposite.

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        Orpo (the Green police = national police with long German history similar to FBI) had heavy SS influence throughout its post 1930s existence, and under direct SS control in 1936. Gestapo department IV B 4 told where ICE should go find some jews to deport. They also reported to SS. Orpo was the department who’d conduct surprise firing squads.

        Police, as a rule, and ACAB, generally prefer the fascist option of “shoot to kill when they get scared” and a hierarchy that will support their decisions. Minneapolis officers involved in murder this week were definitely bad apples, but the much bigger MAGA = Nazi methods comparisons, is all of the doubling down on hate from Cabinet officials, and announcing door to door raids expansions to purge harder, are orders of magnitude more responsible for amplifying the national nightmare.

  • HaphazardGuess@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Is there any information about this case? I am having trouble finding articles online and the source provided is to reddit which also does not provide any information. I just want to see if the man is free now and if he is suing the agency

  • Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world
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    Everytime I (luckily non-US citizen) see videos of ICE agents I get the Urge to “accidentally” slip of the brake pedal and slam down on the accelerator and run them over. You know like people that accidentally drive into Buildings… that stuff just happens… A bit benifit of doing that with your vehicle is, that you barely get any legal trouble compared to shooting somebody.