“I then placed the ambulance into park, took my foot off the brake, undid my seat belt and opened the driver’s side door. I looked up and suddenly the entire group of officers…were crowded around the open car door, some of them leaning forward towards me, inches from my face.”

An agent, the driver recalled, “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner and began viciously yelling in my face, stating, ‘DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU, I WILL ARREST YOU RIGHT NOW.’”

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 70 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ARRESTING Paramedics who are trying to Help INJURED CIVILIANS is how We make the Streets SAFE!

[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

I feel like this deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Those TERROR WAGONS with their strobe lights and loud sirens are basically WOKE LIBERAL PSYOPS machines.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We really need some laws to make it illegal for police to wear camo and LARP as special forces, because that’s 100% what they’re doing

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So far, the laws are all written to work the opposite way.

From a legal perspective, It would probably be easier to abolish ICE and DHS to reclaim those funds. And then use that as an example to abolish police which also buy military surplus and tanks just to use their budget up every year.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

They're more likely using asset forfeitures to fund those purchases.

[–] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounding more and more like Israelis every day

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Something something imperial boomerang, though I doubt Trump's rampage will be limited to the west bank of any river.

[–] obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Of all the people to threaten to shoot. They don't cary guns and are just there to help people.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago

BuT wHaT iF thE AmBuLaNcE DrivEr wAs AcTuaLLy ANTIFA?????

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Ummm it may depend on the area but most EMTs are strapped

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Shouldn't all ambulances have cameras?

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The ones I work on have cameras in the driving portion, facing forwards and back. They specifically do not record audio because that's going to be a load of hipaa violations, but because they are monitoring a public street to the front, and can't really see the patient area of the back (even with the little window there for the driver/back-fella to talk to each other, the camera is basically seeing just the captain's seat), no one seems to care. So unless the dipshits are doing this while in front of the ambulance, it wouldn't see anything.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

According to the article, the dipshits were, in fact, doing this while in front of the ambulance.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

in an ideal world they would, but in our world some ppl are rightly afraid of pics of them when they were in bad condition are being leaked and used against them.

so instead i opt for the fascists to be gone and anyone who obstructs ambulances or paramedics facing jail time.