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Is this actually ICE? Is it BOP? I don't think it's LAPD because I saw a vest that said "federal agent"
Reminder that the guys that shot Alex Pretti were CBP. Abolishing ICE isn't enough.
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.
"Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life!"
Rise up my fellow ants! For the good of the colony ✊
Yeah this movie hits way harder today then when it came out!
I'm so happy to see people fighting back! It hurts to watch videos where people are stolen in front of massive crowds who only yell and whistle.
I know it's scary to fight against armed fascists. I'm not saying peaceful protestors must do more and risk more. I support everyone who acts against fascists regardless of their preferred means of fighting.
I'm just glad more people are getting brave enough to fight physically like this in some places now.
Did they order those riot shields from Temu?
they ordered the guards off temu
The vibe perfectly matches the business casual slacks and off brand sneakers
Hey those were Vans!
Off the wall
Every ICE building should be a garbage dump. Make them spend all their funds on garbage collectors and cleanup crews instead of kidnapping kids to put in for profit child prisons
This reminds me of a joke. If you give a man a fire you can keep him warm for a day, but set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. It's a metaphor or something.
Is that ICE? It kinda looks like normal cops. Also, what’s up with the dude who’s just wearing a plaid shirt holding the riot shield?
This seems weird.
Could be normal cops. LA cops have a terrible reputation even compared to other cops and LAPD likely has been backing and supporting ICE both institutionally and on a personal level.
Can't spell police without ICE
They thought they'd be big badasses, and all those liberal faggots would bow down to their might...
And instead they are pissing their pants against an enormous, ferocious mob of righteously indignant AMERICANS.
There are 3000 ICE Apes in Minneapolis, with a population of over 400,000 citizens, every one of whom DESPISES them. That holds true in EVERY city in America.
Make them fear US, not the other way around. All the way to the TOP.
Dear protesters - keep waving those American flags - remind them who they're up against. Real Americans who don't want to see fascism prevail.
It helps that it's the real American flag too. The one congress voted on. Not the fucking traitor flags with weird stripes just for fascists.
Good. This should be happening nonstop. Fuck these fascists.
Fuck ice, fuck trump, free Palestine
I was playing an old Nintendo DS video game (Broken Sword) recently and a conversation between two characters went like this. "Who are you?", "You might say that I am a man who stands for truth and justice.", "Oh thank God. I thought you were the police!".
Ya love ya see it!
Wow! SO Many ANGRY people at ICE! Let's give them some More MONEY!
-Chuck Schumer!
He's terrified of real people and invents fake ones he can like. He's terrified he will be held accountable for anything he has ever done and only wants it to go back to order to not change.
Yeah he would probably think that watching this video.
Losers. They thought they'd be badass and no one would talk back to them because they've had a couple weeks of pathetic training.
LA and MN leading the way on how to deal with these fascist brown shit fucks.
I wonder how effective leaf blowers are for turning back pepper spray? Also keep a jug of water with baby shampoo in it just in case it gets in your eyes (don't rub them, just rinse asap).
Is it normal for LA cops to wear vans?
Looks like many of them got pressed into service out of uniform. Maybe it was a casual Friday? Those always help lighten the mood at the precinct when the people want your head.
Or undercover douchebags that got scared.
Is that one cop dual wielding shields?
A lot of people will mock dual shielding, but it's actually a viable strategy. Yes, shield bonuses don't stack, but a lot of shield based attacks remove the shield bonus to AC, so having two shields allows you to specialize with one item type for both offense and defense.
If you play as a spider person you can rock 5 shields and a sword and basically nothing can hit you.
I thought he was caught in the protest on his way back from home depot to repair his carport roof
One guy just looks like he left his desk filing TPS reports to come make a shield line but got caught on the wrong side and someone said here hold this.
Fucking cosplay bitches…
This is the only way