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The people of Los Angeles have had enough of the fascist paramilitary invaders (California - 1/30/26)
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The claim that ICE were scared may be true, but only because these guys seems so inexplicably under equipped and poorly lead.
Maybe the "police" in this clip had orders to deescalate. But from what I've seen ICE will use physical violence and tear gas at far less. Maybe they had no gas, which would go along with some of the shields looking like office supplies from Temu. Maybe the leadership was ineffective on a tactical level. I mean the protestors were throwing, what looks to me like, cardboard boxes and other light items. Organizing grabbing a protestor should be easy, but these guys just kept retreating.
Is this what you get when you give every police academy reject 30k USD, a badge and gun?
Yeah, they've been "scared" from the start. We would have a few less deaths if they weren't actually terrified of anyone and everyone.
The people joining ICE are all the internet keyboard warriors and overinflated incel egos we've been seeing in the musky pits of Reddit and 4Chan for years and years, all grown up (physically) but still as cowardly as ever and now carrying deadly weapons and empowered by the most powerful pants-shitter on Earth to use whatever force they feel necessary to stop feeling afraid.
Reminder people, the DHS didn't exist before 2003, when the country was still screaming and raging against muslims, which was normal but around those years it was even more so, and their mission statement was to protect America from further terror attacks.
They haven't done shit either. All we got out of it is now we get fondled at airport security. Even the taking off your shoes thing was a response to something that already had happened and was stopped by other passengers, yet they continued to make us take off our shoes for decades like it was the only thing preventing the next 9/11. It's a mostly pointless agency designed to launder money and investigate people the state doesn't like, perpetually working to justify its own existence.