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Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’ It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations acros...

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[–] FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How many videos are there floating around of ICE just rolling up and discharging nonleathal weapons on protestors? They enjoy hurting protestors. That's why they signed up. I feel like it's not much longer before we start hurting back.

[–] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Less lethal. They can still kill with them and maim like any other weapon.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

They can still kill with them and maim like any other weapon.

The ICE thugs see that as a challenge.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Every day I wake up and I’m shocked that it hasn’t already happened. I’ve said it before and I will say it again; I am genuinely baffled that people in masks with no badges can walk up onto people’s private property waving guns and not get immediately shot in this country. The only thing that I can really figure out is that all the trigger happy people are in ICE.