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      OR, the situation becomes a case of mutually-assured destruction, like the Cold War. The cops don’t want that fight, and the Panthers know it. ALL Cops are cowards at their core, they can’t exist in society without carrying an arsenal, and elevating themselves above their fellow citizens. They won’t engage someone they KNOW is equally armed, and BETTER TRAINED, and knows the law better.

      They’d rather go after poor working people just trying to get by. They are more compliant, and can’t afford lawyers.

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      Yeah but then that potential wake-up call gets put through the 2026 filter and out the other end comes… “Trump claims Harlem should be carpet bombed and casino parking garage built – midwest gang violence the last straw even if it was Law Enforcement gangs this one time.”

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    Since ICE officers don’t normally carry identification, or badges, or even show their face, there’s nothing illegal about dressing up as an ICE officer as long as you don’t actually claim to be an officer, right?

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      Yep, it’s a Temu “ranger green” plate carrier, eBay patches and the rest of the shit you can get at either the flea market or the army navy supply store.

      Gotta look identical to them if you wanna infiltrate

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      You can buy everything they wear, even POLICE patches, on Amazon, eBay and Etsy. That’s where I get my outdoor and gun gear.

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    I guess watching ICE beat up a senator on live TV wasn’t enough for these dumb motherfuckers to pick a side.

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    “Now that it happened to us too, it’s a serious problem. This needs to change.” Fucking jagoff pieces of shit couldn’t have cared less when it was the same people that they bully being oppressed by ICE. The shoe’s on the other foot, and now it’s a crisis.

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      So what’s going to win with the other police officers in the country? “Back the blue” and support their fellow cop, or racism and back ICE?

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          This is true and extremely funny.

          Fuck you, I’m a cop!

          Fuck you, you’re a racist slur removed!

          That pretty much is how that goes.

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        Well, whats bluer than blue, when it solidifies and expands, hardens and sharpens?

        Oh.

        Well, that would be ice, white as can be.

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    A recurring problem with joining extremist organizations is that eventually it will outpace your personal extremist views and behaviors … and then you will be a victim of it.

    “First they came for the …” is about people that were Nazis but not Nazi enough … and in a Nazi-like society no one except Trump/Hitler will ever be Nazi enough to not be culled until the leaders cull themselves.

    And remember that when they cull the bottom group that creates a new bottom group by definition. and eventually that new bottom group is gonna include you.

    and they not gonna stop culling because of you

    human centipede meet human ant mill

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    This is where if police departments wanted to gain credibility, they’d be arresting the ICE agents for assault with a deadly weapon.

    Qualified immunity has a “reasonableness” portion to it. It’s a pretty strong argument that ICE isn’t being reasonable if a cop arrests them for assaulting a cop.

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      Qualified immunity protects government actors from civil penalties (lawsuits) as a result of their actions while on duty and when not violating the constitutional/civil rights of citizens (that’s the “qualified” part). I.e., you can’t sue the cops for the damage to your doorframe after they kick your door in serving a warrant. It does not protect government actors from criminal prosecution and does not grant them license to violate existing laws, and it never has.

      This is also true for ICE, which is why Vance and Stephen Miller are suddenly so keen to start screeching that they think ICE now magically has “absolute” immunity, which there is also no legal basis for whatsoever. Those pulling the strings know that ICE is in fact routinely breaking the law, and they’re desperately trying to get out ahead of it while anyone believes that any shred of equal protection under the law still exists.

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      If cops have qualified immunity that is very often used to say cops can easily get away with murder, and agents have Vance blanket twitter pardons, can they just all kill each other with no legal consequences?

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    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been pulling guns on off-duty officers of color while illegally demanding their citizenship papers.

    And when they identify as a cop, ICE doesn’t verify and just walks away…

    “And after the officer became so concerned, they were forced to identify themselves as a Brooklyn Park police officer in hopes of slowing the incident and de-escalating the incident down.”

    “The agents then immediately left after hearing this, making no other comments, no other apologies, just got in their vehicles and left.”

    Bruley said the anecdote was not an isolated incident.

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      Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been pulling guns on off-duty officers of color while illegally demanding their citizenship papers.

      Or: Off duty cops see dangerous fascists doing illegal stuff and do nothing.

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      Is everyone a cop on this blessed day? (Or some similar, not legally protected title, think security officer is enough?

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        If you want to be abusive toward your fellow citizens, there is no limit to the predatory gun-toting community for you. You have multiple options.

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        You and I wouldn’t be able to use jargon or talk procedures. It would be immediately obvious we were faking. Come up on me and tell me you’re in IT, see how that goes. :)

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          These ice goons aren’t cops though. They’re just a bunch of mall Ninjas. You could probably just start giving them Startrek technobable and they wouldn’t know the difference.

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          ICE recruiting is prioritizing law enforcement for field work right now, but they are also hiring plenty of back of the house personnel as well (desk work), and have been telling them that after more training there is good potential for them to get into the field, too.

          Remember “Alice’s Restaurant,” when the guy tried to avoid the draft by acting crazy?

          And I went up there, I said, “Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.” And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL, " and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL.” And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, “You’re our boy.”

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          I’m at least IT adjacent and have somewhat of a homelab, I feel I could pass for a few minutes longer than an average person.

          Cop jargon? I Fail.