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At one point, Miller told the assembled local police officers, “I see the guns and badges in this room. You are unleashed. The handcuffs you’re carrying, they’re not on you anymore, they’re on the criminals. And whatever you need to get it done, we’re gonna get it done.”

The 40-year-old stated that they had deployed over 13 government agencies, including the FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, and the Department of Defense, which Hegseth has since rebranded as the “Department of War.”

“The gangbangers that you deal with, they think that they’re ruthless, they have no idea how ruthless we are,” Miller added.

“They think they’re tough, they have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are, and we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”

At the Wednesday appearance, Hegseth thanked the assembled Memphis law officers for working in dangerous places “where politicians spend a lot of time second guessing... the impossible decisions that you have to make that they will never understand.”

Hegseth, Bondi and Miller spent around an hour in the Shelby County Office of Preparedness and left via the rear entrance, according to WREG TV.

Bondi said on X that 53 arrests had been made and 20 illegal firearms seized in the first two days of the Memphis Safe Task Force.

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[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are

This bald Nazi wannabe talks big, but I bet he would collapse on his knees and cry for mommy if he found himself being mugged in an alleyway.

What the fuck is wrong with this psycho? Was he bullied at school or something?

[-] teft@piefed.social 27 points 2 months ago

He almost cried and ended up shouting like a child when a reporter confronted him on if he believed Maduro’s crime stats.

He will definitely cry if he’s mugged.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I keep that link bookmarked.

It's a gem.

[-] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Wow. I have SO much respect for that reporter. EVERY reporter should take a lesson from him. Thank you for sharing.

[-] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Magical. Thanks for sharing. If only the rest of the media was this dogged.

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

That's amazing that he refers to children being raped over and over again in that clip, and then says Trump will be elected to fix it.

He claimed Donald Trump, who is in the Epstein Files, will stop children being raped.

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[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

So much “think of the children” bullshit from this bunch of pedophiles.

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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I bet he feels uncomfortable anytime he walks the city streets. Probably much more at home in the sewers

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Hey! Whoa! Don't disrespect the TNMT like that!

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Closest this guy gets to streets is in his gated community driveway

[-] shittydwarf@piefed.social 11 points 2 months ago

Not bullied enough obviously

[-] alaphic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Hey, there's still time

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

No. Generally the kids who get bullied go on to have great lives. Bullies generally pick on those that are better than them.

Removed the bullied from the environment that binds them to the bullies (I.E, high school ends), and suddenly the former bullied thrive in the real world.

This guy was probably a bully who's learned nothing.

[-] giantripdrop@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

No, this dude was not a bully. He's a sociopath (maybe psychopath) who has had always had the means to overcome his antisocial disorder.

You can see it in his responses, he feigns emotion. He acts in a way that he believes others perceive as confidence or authority but it just "feels" wrong as the other. Dead facial expressions followed by forced pauses for fake introspection which extremely animated facial expressions, then right back to dead face.

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[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Cheesus. Did his elementary school teacher really talk about him pouring glue on his forearm, letting it dry, peeling it off and eating it?

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[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

What a piece of shit! Couldn't make it through the whole article...

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[-] Godort@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“The gangbangers that you deal with, they think that they’re ruthless, they have no idea how ruthless we are,” Miller added.

“They think they’re tough, they have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are, and we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”

This reads like edgy fan fiction. Like, I would fully expect to hear this exact dialogue coming from Shadow the Hedgehog in some weird cop AU

[-] alaphic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Great, now I just keep imagining Miller crying alone in the dark while singing along to his Korn/Three Days Grace "xXmegamiXx" on Spotify at full volume in front of God and everybody like it's still 2002 or something

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[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago

53 arrests in 2 fucking days? For what?

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago

Existing While Black or Brown.

[-] alaphic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It's an older crime, but you'll find it quite ~~unbreakable~~... uhmm, legal

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

They are harassing and intimidating the entire city for no fucking reason other than to harass and intimidate.

From the Memphis subreddit tonight: They are pulling EVERYONE over looking for warrants. Get yo 💩right

Can the helicopters please stop circling?! I do not feel safer…

Not only warrents...this is an opportunity to visually search your car. If the interior of your car is a dumpster...clean it and vacume it. A clean car reflects on the driver, plus gives John Law less time in your car. This action isn't about curtailing crime as much as intimadating lawful citizens into submission. For many it's going to be a test. Is standing up for your rights worth a night in jail.

The helicopters are definitely being using as a means to intimidate large portions of the population at once.

Saw armored trucks, black vans, and so many state troopers. 6-7 people pulled over

This is not normal. This is rising fascism at work. Do not forget that.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 4 points 2 months ago

They have moved on to citizens. Not long now, they are getting practice in at detaining them to try to cow people out of resisting once they start actually arresting them in throwing them in ICE facilities.

Also:

For many it’s going to be a test. Is standing up for your rights worth a night in jail.

IDK what this guy means by "standing up for your rights" but I suspect it means "start an argument with the cops and in the process slip up and give them some good legal reason to arrest you which they will be happy to do, because you have no idea about the law." Maybe I'm wrong. But if anyone is in this situation I would really advise you not to get all aggressive with the cops thinking that's going to be the move that saves us all.

I take it to mean what it literally says. Standing up for your rights vs just letting a cop hassle you for no reason and do whatever they please as if those rights don't exist.

Example, you don't have to allow a cop to search your vehicle without probable cause. But do you want to risk challenging the cop? What if they end up finding something else to bring you in on?

What's even more fucked up is that even if you don't have a reason to worry about them searching your car, giving up your right to refuse could very well allow a cop to plant evidence during a search. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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[-] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago

Food is often mistaken for drugs. Roadside tests of drugs have high false positives especially when they are not done correctly. As reported in propublica and elsewhere.

That ziploc that had a sandwich or bread crumb could get you locked up, with no end in sight if you can't bail out, but you can get out right away if you plead.

[-] RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

Would someone please lock this goddamn Nazi cuck up?

[-] alaphic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

an insult to cucks to even associate him with them, honestly

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

They’re trying desperately to turn the US into a totalitarian police state. Not that it wasn’t before, but man they really hate freedom.

[-] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Remember the time this fuck sprayed hair on his head

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

What a sexual matador.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Missed the skinhead dress code memo.

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[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Temu Nosferatu Putin

[-] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

53 arrests in two days… in a city the size of Memphis. How many millions of our taxes went into each arrest?

This whole gang of idiots is more pathetic than I ever knew a human could be. This is what happens when your parents hate you.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And we'll see how many of those actually stick. In DC a ton of the charges were just dismissed once they reached a courtroom.

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 5 points 2 months ago

This dude was bullied by his own lunch money in school.

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And in their haste to prove how "hard core" they really are, some jackass with the task force has already managed to roll his vehicle on top of another vehicle that was just sitting at a red light, and put some poor kid in the hospital.

I hope he sues the state and federal government.

Unmarked car involved in crash, ends up on top of vehicle in Frayser, witnesses say

Witnesses told WREG Wednesday evening that the unmarked vehicle was chasing the other car when it was hit going through an intersection at Frayser Boulevard and Watkins Street.

The unmarked vehicle had its blue lights on but did not have sirens on when it entered the intersection, witnesses said.

Who needs sirens during a chase? People should just expect you to come barrelling through an intersection any moment.

Witnesses said that the woman driving down Watkins Street collided with an unmarked vehicle that was chasing another car on Frayser Boulevard.

A witness reported that the collision caused the unmarked car to become airborne and land on top of another vehicle at a red light.

This is so fucking dumb and infuriating. Straight out of Idiocracy. Day 2 and you've already almost killed someone's child who happened to be in the way of your airborne vehicle.

“And let me be very clear. I am a career prosecutor. If you touch a law enforcement officer, it is a crime and you are going to jail. We are arresting anyone who touches any of you,” said Bondi.

Honesty expecting Bondi to claim that kid was with antifa.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

deployed ... FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, and the Department of Defense

Yeah cool, you just froze all their income. Sure they're loving you rn and happy to go be the enemy of the people for free.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

[Miller] "They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”

"They" live in a city of over 600,000 people in a nation that hates you, with access to hundreds of millions of firearms. YOU'VE got your adorable little 50 arrests, 20 confiscated firearms and a steady supply of "let's kill em all bullsh*t" You haven't thought this through.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"In the place where I stand before you, Judges of Israel, to present the case against Adolf Eichmann, I do not stand alone. With me, at this moment, stand six million accusers. But they cannot rise to their feet, point an accusing finger towards the glass booth, and cry out towards the one sitting there – "I accuse." For their ashes are piled up on the hills of Auschwitz and the fields of Treblinka, washed away in the rivers of Poland, and their graves are scattered across Europe, from one end to the other. Their blood cries out, but their voices cannot be heard. Therefore, I will be their mouthpiece, and I will say on their behalf the terrible indictment." -Gideon Hausner, opening statement

[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

This dude is only 40? That's a rough 40! Im older than him, and my stress is huge, yet I look 20 years younger than him.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Fascism ages you like nothing else

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

I'm in my positive future phase today, so I'm imagining how people like Peter Thiel, pretty old by then, reminisce about the biggest mistakes of their lives past:

"So yeah, at first we thought it was a genius idea - my idea btw - to put raving media pundits in positions of power. Who could've foreseen it would all end like that."

Maybe even with a nostalgic tear for long-diseased Uncle Donny, everybody loved him, he wasn't even the worst of the monsters now, was he.

[-] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

We're definitely in the "Oops! All Joffrey's" chapter of America's game of thrones.

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