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The secret police are everywhere. Do they really need the masks? (www.latimes.com)
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The alleged officers detaining hundreds if not thousands of people each day in California and across the country are often masked. They sometimes refuse to answer questions, including which agency they represent. They threaten force — and even use it to make arrests of bystanders — when they are challenged.

In the first video I watched, a man in an unmarked car detains another man sitting on a bus bench in Pasadena. The man presumed to be a federal agent has on a vest that simply says “Police” and a cheap black ski mask that covers every bit of his face — the kind that looks like it was purchased on Amazon and that we have previously most associated with criminals such as robbers andremoveds. A few of his colleagues are in the background, some also seemingly masked.

If these men approached me or one of my kids dressed like that, I would run. I would fight. I would certainly not take his word that he was “police” and had the right to force me into his car.

In the second video, another presumed federal agent jumps out of his unmarked vehicle and draws his weapon on a civilian attempting to take a photo of the license plate.

Yes — he points his gun at a civilian who is not threatening him or committing a crime. Folks, maybe you consider it a bad idea to try to photograph what may or may not be a legitimate police operation, but it is not illegal. This alleged officer appears to have simply not liked what was happening, and threatened to shoot the person upsetting him. The man taking the photo ran away, but what would have happened had he not?

These actions by alleged authorities are examples of impunity, and it is what happens when accountability is lost.

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[-] blame@hexbear.net 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“It’s not about intimidation,” Homan said. “ICE officers are wearing masks because they’ve been doxxed by the thousands. Their families have been doxxed. ICE officers’ pictures have shown up on trees and telephone poles. Death threats are sky-high. I know because I’ve been doxxed 1,000 times myself.”

You know what? I believe ICE officers are getting doxxed and threatened.

Any violent attack on law enforcement should be condemned.

Give me a break, these guys are out there disappearing people at gunpoint and pointing their guns at people so much as taking pictures. If they are not operating within the confines of the law, why should the civilians? Why is one side unilaterally allowed to attack the other with no recourse for the victims?

[-] principalkohoutek@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

Oh man they're being DOXXED, which is just a scary word for identified? And then what happens to them? Is it NOTHING? Maybe they have to feel bad when they leave the house? Oh god, the horror

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The NYT front page was autoplaying part of that interview the other day, and in the part I saw he was trying to justify the crackdowns because of migrants dying in the desert. Motherfucker, you're the one who forced them there and prosecuted people who left them jugs of water.

sartre-pipe , I know, I know . . .

P.S.:

In 2015, Obama awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. The Washington Post article at the time stated, "Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it."

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 month ago

Any violent attack on law enforcement should be condemned.

counterpoint; light those pigs up like the fourth of july

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

You know what? I believe ICE officers are getting doxxed and threatened.

ok we can skip the threats then

[-] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

open-secret police
kelly

[-] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

Also, people should straight-up start robbing banks dressed up as ICE and stuff.

[-] iie@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Now would be a great time for a foreign intelligence service to stage ICE false flag attacks

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

that's Peter Thiel's new startup isn't it?

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Burgerbrain moment:

Didn’t the cops in the Watchmen show also wear masks? Prophetic

[-] prole@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I wish they really needed the masks, but all the cool USAians already went to prison last time around

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