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Super Bowl Fallout: ICE Says Attacks on Agents Have Jumped More Than 1,300% Nationwide
(www.ibtimes.co.uk)
From what baseline? Did it go from 1 to 14?
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You know they're trying to make a bigger deal out of a minor difference when they start throwing out percentages instead of actual numbers. It sounds much better to be able to talk about thousands when the actual difference is a dozen. "Up 1300%" likely means that there was 1 last year, and now there have been 14 this year, an increase of 13 incidents.
Also quoting out this increase without any other context presupposes an apples to apples comparison. As in ICE is the same now as it was then, but we clearly got more violent. Not like there were changes that may have happened in the last year with ICE? Maybe the numbers of their personnel exploded this year? Maybe they specifically recruited those who are unqualified for any other form of law enforcement and emphasized white nationalism in their advertisments? Maybe they were pushed through with little to no training? Maybe they have been lied to about their legal authority and/or told that they are immune to punishment for their illegal actions? Maybe they are demonstrably more violent? Maybe they are systematically kidnapping non-criminals, legal residents, citizens, and children? Maybe they are violating the constitution? Maybe they are shooting people in the streets?
1300%, pfft. Quick question, what's the percent increase in arrests of law-abiding legal residents and citizens? In 4th amendment violations? In murders? Show me those numbers, assholes.
Wow, their job sounds really dangerous. They should all quit.
Sounds like rookie numbers to me.
Get them now before they roll up in MRAPs and 50 cals, Fallujah style.
The regime doesn't need to wait for an excuse to escalate when they can just make one up.
Ugh, the pro-ICE propaganda reeks. The tone of this article makes me feel like I need a shower.
These are the same folks that claimed that Alex Pretti "attacked" ICE agents before they murdered him...so you can safely disregard anything they have to say.
Let them jump more
And we know just how credible Trump administration spokesweasels are.
Almost as credible as International Business Times.
Irritable Bowel Times.
It's really frustrating reading Lemmy commenters like, "America do something!" Like God damn! The news doesn't want to report on all the work the millions of Americans have been doing to protect our streets because they're paid by billionaires.
People just want to make snarky comments about the second amendment because we're not shooting ICE agents in the face. They don't want to hear about the things our communities are actually doing.
My own community hasn't been hit as hard as MN but we've got rapid response hotlines tracking ICE, getting people with cameras and signs on them at the blink of an eye, and resource support groups for the undocumented.
Apparently that counts as nothing to a bunch of people that probably haven't lifted a finger against their own government despite the fact that fascism is almost certainly rising there too.
It helps to imagine them as the "I am very smart" guy from that webcomic/meme template.
Those Lemmy commenters are CCP, Israel, Russia, or someone swooped up in their propaganda games. Shit is rampant. Doomers as far as the eye can see.
It's all intended to promote learned helplessness. The end state that they want is a nihilistic fatalism: nothing can change, all politicians are the same, you can't believe anything. The last thing they want is an engaged public.
Embarrassing for the IB Times to fall for it so completely. Assaults are up 1300% because they changed the definition of “assault” to include filming or photographing an ICE agent. I simply do not care that they’re being silly-stringed in the street.
I was going to ask, how are they defining "attack"? Having dildos thrown at their vehicles? Being criticized? Apparently an attack is exercising your first amendment rights.
This is important context
If that percent is actually true, then those must be very small numbers. 1 attack to 13 attacks is a 1300% increase after all.
It isn't even true. Apparently it's about 25%.
So from 4 to 5, got it
Read the article and this is 100% propaganda to make ICE sound like victims of violence that isn't happening.
70 per cent of those swept up boast rap sheets.
Huh? Where the hell did the article get that number from. Every source I've seen previous says 14-15% have a record. And aside from that, even if their made up number were true, it doesn't justify the way ICE is conducting their terror campaign.
100% propaganda seems about right.
I think I know a simple way to completely stop these assaults.
We can get those numbers up.
We’re only talking 13-32 nazis being mildly inconvenienced.
Seems unlikely, but even if it were true, I think there are bigger problems in the world. Anyway, they pretty much are causing their own trouble. They should change tactics.
I don’t really trust any statistics put out by this administration, especially from DHS or the Justice Department.
more lies.
We understand that lfe is sooooo hard for your armed thugs, Trish. Have some Thoughts and Prayers™.
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I'm missing the irony in this article.
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