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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 17 points 6 days ago

SWAT doesn't even use plastic explosives when breaching a regular door unless it is a special circumstance. These idiots just showed up and played gravy seals cowardly hiding behind cars for cover, blasting doors open for a fucking minor fender bender! They didn't even list charges so all kinds of constitutional rights were brazenly violated. But fuck it, they got a blank check on tax payer funds to cosplay being tactical shit heads. They even fucked those tactics up announcing to the entire neighborhood they were coming.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 215 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Terrorism perpetrated by the state. They brought what looks like 20+ jackbooted thugs to arrest one man. This is meant to terrorize supporters of the anti-ICE movement. I don’t want to get banned for promoting violence against the “federal agents”, specifically assassinations, so I won’t suggest such things here. Not calling for that.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This community is on midwest.social so you’re fine. The Nazi sympathizers that declare any anti-Nazi action “promoting violence” are on lemmy.world.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago

Good to know!

[–] Buske@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are not promoting violence, You are upholding the law of the land.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are promoting community defense

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago

I am also promoting community defense

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If an unannounced person enters your home, I encourage you to use any and all powers available to end their life to protect yours. Anyone that doesn't want to dodge bullets can knock first. It's really a pretty straightforward principle.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

Easy to say. The thing about violence is that there's a monopoly and its biggest buyer is the State..

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Malcom X

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 155 points 1 week ago (3 children)

At no point does anyone in the story attempt to justify the explosive breach. They were looking for a guy who was in a car accident with feds and let go.

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

Escalation to "justify" killing him. There probably were too many witnesses with cameras at the car accident.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The justification is intimidation.

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[–] Plaidboy@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nor do they justify the armored personnel carrier... Talk about over the top. Obviously intentionally over the top to intimidate.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 80 points 1 week ago (6 children)

America is at war with America.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

America is at war with humanity.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

Probably 15 years ago i saw comments about America invading America so trillions could be spent building up the country. Seems like America won't get that part.

[–] mienshao@lemm.ee 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

FTFY: ICE terrorists and trump traitors are at war with America.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Everyone who lives at the home is a U.S. citizen, Ramirez said.

Yup

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[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If they do this for a simple collision, can you imagine how ICE would react if, while they're off arresting people, a group tipped over their cars? I mean, such a disturbing event would only take about four or five people, which would be terrible. I hope it never happens, especially more than once.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (8 children)

ICE claimed that he rammed their vehicle, and that others threw stones and their car. So not a simple collision, from their official point of view. Though that does not justify what happened here.

I also wonder why this even is a case for ICE and not the police.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

ICE claimed

Well the one thing we know for certain is that whatever follows these words absolutely, without a doubt, did not happen.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

ICE also claims Narciso Barranco stood his ground and assaulted officers with a weedwacker when he was clearly fleeing on the video. Their claims are worth as much as the toilet paper square I wiped my ass with this morning.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well depending on your diet, that square could have been fertilizer, so I'd say it was considerably more valuable than any claims made by ICE.

Don't undersell your own shit.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In a statement Friday afternoon, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman said, “Jorge Sierra-Hernandez was arrested because he rammed his car into a CBP vehicle, causing significant damage and obstructed the work of our agents and officers during course of a law enforcement operation. During this incident, agents were assaulted, and additional rioters threw rocks and other objects at our personnel. Anyone who actively obstructs or assaults law enforcement, including U.S. citizens, will face consequences which include arrest.”

In which case it is the jurisdiction of the local police to investigate a traffic collision

This is not a CBP case

[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My friend and I had this awesome ski trip planned for Colorado. We changed our plans last night to go to Canada instead.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

Don't get detained on your way back in.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

I don't know what's more terrifying, the actions of ICE or the faces of the local news anchors as they report on literal fascism in their own city.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's not going to be long before these people start acting like medieval warriors who invade villages, ransack them, and have their way with it's people.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

we call them pillaging bandits.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Except the towns are full of people with guns too.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

They already did in 2017. We had ice raping minors in detention centers

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So...Border Patrol is operating more than 100 miles from a land border. Yeah, they're using the loophole of counting international airports as "borders" afterall. Yay.

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[–] this@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is different from terrorism...how?

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago

Because it's state sanctioned.

[–] mienshao@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago

ICE terrorists deserve to be drawn and quartered.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

... have the Feds not bombed a private residence for a long time?

I know of 1985 but I'm sure this is a more regular occurrence.

There must be a list, but I can't find it on Wiki.

(To clarify if unclear, the explosives used in this case was to damage the door, not to bring down the building.)

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[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (6 children)

These pieces of shit deserve cancer. They really do. Slow and miserable cancer.

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Nah they deserve to starve in a small hole in the ground.

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[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If you met a Nazi today would you murder them?

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

Wouldn't murder one, but would put their dick in the dirt out of self defense.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

If I could get away with it…..or rather, for legal reasons, “If I Did It”.

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[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In case anyone gets suspicious like I was, the domain name seemed... odd to me. I expected something more like losangeles.nbc.com or something.

But I did a WHOIS lookup and confirmed the company that registered it is NBCUniversal, which is the legal name of the company.

I also saw KTLA reporting this, but I didn't bother to check them. So yeah, seems like real news, for better or worse.

I hate that we need to check these things now on top of all the shit going down

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In the US, local news has historically been presented via an "affiliate" model, in which a local company is allowed to air their own programming in a particular region in exchange for a fee. So when you turn to the channel for NBC in los Angeles on the TV, it's from the national NBC most of the time but for local news it will switch to NBC Los Angeles, which is usually a different company. I would imagine NBC Los Angeles was originally an entirely different company than NBC national that later got bought by them.

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Ohh, very cool. I learned a thing. Thank you for sharing!

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

The SS and NKVD would be proud of the ICE masked clowns.

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