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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Masks for others are “potential precursors to violence” but not for ICE!

[T]he guidance urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear—like masks, flashlights, and cameras—as potential precursors to violence, telling officers to prepare “from the point of view of an adversary.”*

Protesters on bicycles, skateboards, or even “on foot” are framed as potential “scouts” conducting reconnaissance or searching for “items to be used as weapons.” Live-streaming is listed alongside “doxxing” as a “tactic” for “threatening” police. Online posters are cast as ideological recruiters—or as participants in “surveillance sharing.”

Ideological recruiters! Lmao they literally pretend antifa is as bad as real-life white supremacy groups.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, they don't. They just pretend to in order to legitimize their oppression.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Funny, to me it sounds like a whole fucking governmental department that apparently needs to read the US Constitution.

How are ICE agents able to lick boots so well with the masks on?

[–] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

They need to read the Constitution but they're illiterate