How is this helping? Get out of here with that crap.
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2026
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They have a point no one wants to admit. If Renee Good was a minority, it would have had a 4 hour news cycle like the other 4 ICE killings.
newsflash, it always was a police state, they just arnt hiding it anymore. consistently all the MSM had significant amount copaganda on thier networks to "normalize" the bad cop as a good cop, this also extends to military propaganda too,.
IDK, I think most people were just as outraged about George Floyd.
To me it's important to raise the biggest possible stink about ICE goons actually killing someone, regardless of skin tone.
And it's not like we didn't see this coming a mile away, and she's probably not the last one to die by ICE goons, not to speak of the people who died in detention.
I see a lot of comments like "America is unrecognizable now." No, this is always how America has been. Difference is now it's happening to white people and not just POCs and other minorities, and the quiet parts are being said out loud instead of staying quiet.
So much this. And I gotta love 'The Wire' for doing a comprehensive view on society from different angles, clearly highlighting the "wrong zip code" effect: bodies that don't matter because they were black people in a poor neighborhood. Only hurt/dead white people in rich areas get people even remotely interested, especially when looking at the big picture instead of single cases.
It's only happening to a small subset of white people though. This is how fascism operates. They keep taking chunks out of the complacent masses so they don't all rise up at once. That's why solidarity is so important.
Let's hope they bit off more than they can chew this time but that remains to be seen.
Unfortunately the US was founded on the opposite of solidarity.
Well, where empathy fails fear might succeed. 🤷
Yup. Cops have been killing people indiscriminately in this country for decades. This shit is nothing new. This is what the USA has always been.
The cops need to have their hand guns taken away. Norway has way less killings.
The institution of the police needs to be abolished and our systems of government revolutionized.
In America, even if the police forces were somehow all brainwashed instantly into being righteous people, this wouldn't be viable cause there are simply too many guns in circulation. Valuing the power to submit others over everything and the MIC are one hell of a drug cocktail!
Did we all just forget that the nationwide protests that started with George Floyd's murder started with the police in Minneapolis? No, it's not the first time and it's not even Minneapolis' first time.
Native Americans are the OG "first-timers" for these barbarians but they didn't even leave enough of them to tell the story. 😐
Ah yes, the famous political leanings: Lib and Black.
ICE are not Police
Police obtain legal warrants from judges and district attorneys, apprehend people to be given fair trial and if needed Habeas Corpus right to prove they do not belong in custody.
ICE do not obtain warrants, do not adhere to local laws, they do not respect habeas corpus.
ICE are not Police, ICE are just criminal thugs
You are half right. You are very generous with the theoretical mechanics of policing and perhaps not as familiar with the reality of it.
Perhaps it is naive, but I think the point here was that the police, technically and legally speaking, are much more restricted. As flawed as it is both legally and in actuality, police is still way more restricted and accountable than ICE is both legally and in actuality.
Agreed. Zero accountability is not equivalent to theoretically substantial, but poorly enforced by design accountability.
You clowns being unable to remember what happened in that exact city 6-7 years ago is why we're in this shit
Edited because I'm bad at time and we're living in hell
They'll never realize how insanely offensive it is for someone to say:
Now that I am effected, I recognize there is a problem. Now everyone I've been telling to shut up for decades now needs to shut up and do exactly as I say, if you want anything more or even less than me, you're worse than trump.
Sometimes a hypocrite is just a person in the process of changing. Late is better than never.
That's pretty fucking fair actually.
It's desperate. They want to temper any response to this one in particular.
It's basically "You're not allowed to be upset about this one or you're racist."
Its fun to accuse murder victims of white privilege? That's a weird hobby.
He's not making fun of the victims, he's making fun of the pearl-clutchers.
It’s not the police. It is ICE. 2 completely different things.
Upvoted because correct take and humrous, but the text at the bottom of the top panel should have been made to at least look simialar to the subtitle text of the bottom panel ...
Today in being pedantic...
It will never cease to amaze me how much even ostensibly left wing Americans give the Republicans a free pass to be as awful as they like and not get criticised at all.
"BUT YOU BLACK AMERICANS DON'T UNDERSTAND! SHE WAS WHITE AND A MOTHER!" /s