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[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 261 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Wait, that's how they're actually dressed? They just look like random people. The fact that they don't get shot more speaks a lot about how well behaved the people they are kidnapping are.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 192 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think they look more like a bunch of thugs than normal people.

[–] PaulBunyan@lemm.ee 64 points 2 weeks ago

It’s the masks. Their body language is softer than my hangover shit.

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[–] ssroxnak@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago

They're also going after the population that are probably the unlikeliest to own firearms. That being said, if you're brown and not carrying a firearm and your "papers", you should probably change your habits. Fuck me, it's disgusting that this is the case in America.

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[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 214 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They wear masks for the same reason the Klansmen wore masks.

[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aren't they klansmen or their sons?

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I’m sure more than a few of them have that in their history, along with numerous times starting a sentence with, “I’m not racist but…”

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[–] ssroxnak@lemmy.world 187 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

There is absolutely no proof that these people are ICE, or any other agents of the state. Do not assume masked strangers throwing people in vehicles are law enforcement. Especially if they don't identify themselves.

We all need to stop making this assumption, and to start encouraging others to also not make this assumption.

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My favorite so far is the people who follow these fuckers around with megaphones and broadcast the rights people have when dealing with ICE, numbers of local lawyers and advocates, and other instructions to help people either avoid the interaction or at least have a fighting chance to due process if they are detained.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

What would be better is if, when people were being kidnapped by these brownshirts-at-home, the bystanders started beating these kidnappers to a bloody, gelatinous pulp. That way, the street sweepers could come and gently push their mouldering viscera where they belong: the gutter.

Remember: there is no evidence that these people have the force of law behind them. Citizens should not allow others to be kidnapped in broad daylight.

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[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 144 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A handy guide to America:

Wearing a mask to prevent the spread of infection during a global pandemic? It's an excuse to hide your face, you literally cannot breate through it, and it's a symbol of leftist fascism.

Wearing a mask literally to hide your identity so you can physically accost and abduct anyone under the pretense of 'immigration authority' with zero need for due process so there are no repercussions when you are wrong? That's protecting your country.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 141 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Looks like a group of shady men wearing masks intended to hide their faces around an unmarked van threatening civilians with weapons to me. Call the police, maybe hyperbolize it a bit. Make them either abandon their spot or waste their time justifying their existence to the police instead of whatever bullshit they're there to do.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 72 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Looks like a bunch of fascists committing state-sanctioned domestic terrorism.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 137 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No badges, no uniforms, driving unmarked vehicles and wearing masks? Those are obviously kidnappers, Your Honor.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

"That's why my client acted reasonably and dare I say heroically, when they saw these masked men dragging the witness into an unmarked vehicle, drew their legally carried sidearm, and engaged these individuals until they were no longer a threat."

Why hasn't this happened yet?!

This country should never be safe for predators who want to throw people into vans.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because migrants are generally peaceful, non-violent people who just want to work hard and improve their lives.

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 130 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

that’s actually a mob of criminals. you see these dbags you need to call 911, especially if you are not an immigrant.

Call in a potential bank robbery

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 107 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Given what is currently happening in the US, I cannot help but ask myself: Does the police still respond when emergency calls come in reporting that several armed and masked men are dragging people into a van and kidnapping them?

That's a genuine question, and I don't know the answer. But hey, I don't know the answer to the question of how all this can be possible in a constitutional state either.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 68 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Turns out having a constitution isn't enough. You have to actually follow and enforce it to be effective.

[–] bieren@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Trump would wipe his ass with that piece of paper if he could get his hands on it.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 87 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They look like terrorists.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well they are wearing masks and striking fear on a civilian population for a political agenda, so I think your terminology is textbook.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 83 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

This looks like they just rounded up a bunch of proud boyz, put masks on them, gave them a van and told them to go harass immigrant children.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 44 points 2 weeks ago

I mean... That's pretty much what they did.

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[–] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 71 points 2 weeks ago

No reasononable person would believe these are police. Not guilty.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 60 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Anybody else dressed like that in the street would be arrested.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And.. Are these the guys kidnapping children at primary schools and playgrounds? Cuz they do wear the right clothes for such occasion.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 57 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Omg, they can't breathe, they are inhaling their own CO2 & toxic bacteria, they are probably dead already!!

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

*Allegedly ICE

Those could totally just be plain old kidnappers

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[–] hzl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure those are just traffickers.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Friendly reminder that it should be 100% illegal for law enforcement to wear masks and hide their identity.

We pay their salaries and they have ZERO accountability.

These are domestic terrorists.

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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If these unidentifiable people tried to arrest you would you not be within your right to defend yourself with force?

Could you also not get a bunch of mates dress the same and disrupt all of their raids by claiming you’re the real ICE and they are just a group of random strangers

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If the law actually applied equally to everyone, both citizens and government thugs? Absolutely.

But we all know that's not how it works on the street or in the courts.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Flannel is the new brownshirt.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

fun fact, flannel catches fire like nothing else

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 weeks ago

They don't look like law enforcement, you should probably open fire if they try and get onto your property.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Call swat on them.

"Hello police? There are armed masked men waiting next to a black unmarked van eyeballing women as they walk by. I'm afraid when I leave they are going to try to abduct someone.

No they aren't law enforcement"

If they don't get guns pointed at them then you will make 4 thugs waste most of their day and piss them off.

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[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Not even remotely hyperbolic here, I 100% would assume they’re randos gang members or doing criminality attempting to kidnap then murder me, and I’d fight back accordingly. Not even a badge on a neck chain or belt clip jfc covered head to toe

Just the same as if a mugging becomes “get into the van” no you fucking shouldn’t because their goals are now no longer your property, but now your life

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Pathetic. Take off your masks, pussies. I wanna see the faces of the people who kidnap my friends.

[–] StonerCowboy@lemm.ee 30 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yea these guys don't look like law enforcement. They gonna get shot if its my turn cause these look like bad guys just kidnapping fools.

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure, in some states, You can shoot people looking like that.

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

How does anyone know they're ICE? what if six guys in masks showed up and threw these guys in an unmarked van and says THEY'RE ICE?

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 25 points 2 weeks ago

Masked, no badge. That's a good way to get yourself shot.

[–] Airowird@lemm.ee 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All I see are a couple of MS13 members about to perform a kidnapping, better alert SWAT!

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Cowards. Fucking cowardly bullies with their truncheons.

And if the dude on the right wouldn't go down and stay down with one shove to the chest, I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How have none of these guys gotten shot yet?

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Just judging by the cover, my guess is that this album sucks.

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