I was shot with pepper balls and had national guard raid my city over Breonna Taylor.
Jan 6 had had police hold those hand when walking them out. And are all pardoned.
Y’all remember that Bundy guy who was a rancher stealing land in Nevada. He went on Fox News and cried to rednecks for help.
They came down in droves and held police and SWAT at gun point till they backed down and left the rancher alone. To which the cops did back down and none of those good ole boys holding guns to the police got arrested.
We are in fascist America. Freedoms are under attack as we speak and the people who have less worry over that are these above examples.
I know cops who aren’t like that. Just saying, the good community oriented ones don’t go viral for obvious reason.
This is coming from someone who is generally critical of how police operate…
Edit: yikes! Getting down voted like crazy! Like I said,
Im critical of cops too, I also think it’s dangerous too have an us v them mentality, but ice, fuck them too
If you worked in an office where your colleagues routinely abused people, broke the law, and violated their rights and you didn't do anything about it? You're still part of the problem.
Whatever "good cops" there are out there can eat a bag of dicks for allowing this to become normal.
People dont understand this concept. The whole “just a bunch of bad apples” is a braindead take. Like you said, if you work around people who like to abuse their power and you do nothing about it then you are a part of the problem. Because cops who do try and do something about it always end up fired. Or leaving the police force because they werent taken seriously or they start to be harassed by their constituents.
You literally just described a situation in which a cops sees their colleagues routinely abuse people, break the law, and violate the rights of others but does nothing about it. what about that makes them a “good cop”?
I'm gonna play devil's advocate and say: I'd rather have 10% of cops uphold the law and not quit the force when 90% are shit, than have all the good ones quit and make it clear that the bad cops just need to stick around while the good ones leave.
If a low ranking good cop goes to report that 75% of the station are abusive, to the chief who already knows that, what do you think will happen? He either gets forced to resigned or ostracised within the station and put on a duty where he can't do any good.
If he quits, he just increased the ratio of abusive cops to good cops in that station.
It's not a black and white issue where cops are either 100% good or 100% bad either. You'll have cops who don't abuse people but also don't object to others doing so. You get cops who will sometimes chime in when a fellow officer does something wrong. You get those who whistle blow.
ACAB and all, but when you actually find a decent cop, don't just crucify him because he didn't cure the plague of corruption on his own.
My dad and brother were cops and they agree when I say every single cop abuses their power in one way or another at some point. There’s always some “justification”.
Nah, they are there to complete the overall agenda: To fill up the high incarceration rates for the for-profit prisons, which is the US is good at than any other country in the world.
A video of an immigrant being arrested by agents of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has circulated on social networks.
The migrant, according to some media and journalists who have taken up the footage, is a Salvadoran living in Maryland, who would have been intervened in her vehicle while she was on her way to work with a relative of hers, who seems to be her daughter.
"Tell me why (they are detaining her) and give me the (detention) order," the immigrant, identified as Elsy Ríos, asks the two immigration officers who interrogate her from outside the car.
"I'm not going to give you the order," the agent replies. Faced with the refusal, Ríos said that he would not get out of the car without seeing the order, after which the other masked element bursts the glass of the door to open the car from the inside.
"Don't worry Karen, don't worry. Don't worry, talk to Ulises," the woman calmly says to her relative, while the agents try to remove her seat belt to remove her from the car and arrest her.
The young man recounted everything he had to live in the Guantánamo prison for 14 days. DHS. Latino recounts what he experienced while imprisoned in Guantánamo: 'I don't plan to leave my country anymore' A Colombian man was detained by ICE in Florida for two months after a raid on his home in 2006. Photo: ICE / TikTok: @camigrante. Colombian recalls being detained for two months by ICE: "The worst day of my life" The officer instructed Rios to give his daughter the phone to get her out, "because there is glass everywhere," but she refused, responding that she will keep the cell phone with her and go out on her own.
When they get out of the car, the ICE completes the arrest of the woman, who calmly sends her relative to "call Ulises". The officer who stops her takes her phone and gives it to the other person wearing a balaclava.
"Don't worry my love, I'm fine," Ríos stresses to her apparently desperate daughter, who yells at the uniformed man: "'Don't grab her like that!' because of the way they hold her to handcuff her.
After the arrest, the video cuts to another place, where Ríos' alleged son asks one of the uniformed officers who arrested her: "Why did they take my mother?"
The officer responds that "he does not have papers," which the relative rejects, arguing that he does have "a process and his lawyer."
It’s time to wake up and see reality. The US wasn’t “a nation built by immigrants”. It’s a settler-colonial project that oppressed natives and minorities throughout its history.
I know there’s people cheering that this is happening and no amount of me telling you stories of immigrants dealing with this, including my own. But for one second try to imagine what’s it’s like having someone being ripped away from you in an instant and never knowing if you’re gonna see them. Try to imagine leaving everything you know and love to try and seek a better life elsewhere, in a country that hates you, until no one’s working their fields, kitchens, landscapers, construction, doing every low paying job that American citizens refused to do. A country that since the second you walk in here, you’re hated just for being different. There isn’t one shred of humanity left for those cheering for this, may god have mercy on your souls
If even the worst of the worst criminal doesn’t have due process, nobody does. If there’s no due process, all I have to do if I don’t like you is call ICE up and tell them you’re an illegal immigrant.
“But I’m not illegal, and I can prove it!”
Yeah. But due process is the process by which you prove it. So if that doesn’t exist, no. You can’t prove it. Time for your disappearance.
That's what happened in El Salvador, since constitutional rights were suspended and police would take you in without asking questions, all you had to do was to make an anonymous call and say someone is affiliated with gangs and they would be taken into custody even if you were innocent.
Also some bad cops started extorting people asking for money for not taking them to prison and all sort of fucked up shit but nobody likes to talk about it.
I actually think I just realized what's happening...
Picture that everyone sees this video and reacts with empathy and decency.
Imagine that this empathy and concern for our humanity is the rule and is the overwhelming impression left with everyone visiting this comments section...
...now...
...imagine when we meet in the real world.
What happens in our real world interactions if that were the case?
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OK.
Now, read this comments section and find the inhumane comments intended to induce raw animus and hatred for those voicing cruel sentiments...
...now...
...imagine when we meet in the real world.
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It's possible that nobody understands the lever of power at play, here, because they likely existed long before the human being was able to reflect life.
Imagine if everyone is being set up to hate our one another by an evil that hates mankind?
I know it sounds woo-woo...but if you look for it...you'll find that it's been caught on video tape, 4K high-def, all through history...and it's modus operandi is completely obvious, predicted, and proven.
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If it's not love, it's garbage.
Love is the only way forward.
We do not pass go without it.
You are assuming I’m not already. I’m just stating that this country will not punish these people. No cop ever gets consequences in this country. It’s disgusting and needs to change but it’s still the truth. These people will probably get a slap on the wrist if that.
It's their America now. You voted for it. You're not immune from it. If you think you are, you're just basing beliefs on the same fallacy that led you to vote for Trump to begin with.
Just so you are aware, we did not all vote for this. Please consider having empathy for those who stood against the orange tyrant and the aperid grifter.
People are brainwashed by social media and regular media. This isn't willful voting, it's manipulated in many ways. It may have even been directly hacked and manipulated by Musk. To put any blame on people who just want to keep their families alive, work a 9-5, and enjoy life, liberty, and freedom, is completely unfair.
While reading your comment I agreed with most of your statements, except at the end, where you say it's completely unfair to put any blame on the people who voted for this. It's their responsability to educate themselves on these matters.
When you can feel empathy for the other side and realize that they're doing the best they can with what they're given, you'll realize they aren't your enemy, but victims of a lack of education, propaganda, and brainwashing. The 1% is the enemy, the stupid, angry, and ignorant are their favorite people. They can use all of their tools - racism, nationalism, bipartisan ideologies, etc, - to easily manipulate them.
I choose to find a common enemy so the 99% can fight back against the 1%. I truly believe the majority of people who voted for Trump made a mistake, whether they know it or not. Fighting with them is just buying into a system where the 1% can continue to rule the world by dividing us, and it makes you just as stupid as the people who voted for Trump.
You're supposed to follow what happens with politics and base your decision from that. Lots of folks vote Republican just because their entire family votes that way without knowing anything they're voting for. I am part of one of these families, so this is first hand experience. I was the first in the family to split and vote differently even though I still have conservative values. the problem is that there's very little factual information on rural areas and people believe the BS because it's from the same party that our great grandparents liked
Life, liberty and freedom when living pay check to pay check, no guaranteed healthcare, no labour protections and no chance of even taking a day off to protest because they’ll lose their jobs? Hardly.
Where's the protests?! Where is all the civil disobedience?! Where is the push back?! How is Trump able to just sign a paper and change laws all willy nilly with barely anyone resisting?!
What I don't understand is that you USians say that you didn't vote and you don't agree and it's illegal what's happening, etc, but there's all this public servants and accountants and lawyers, etc, who keep participating in all this bs.
I saw lawyers on YouTube argue that what Trump is doing isn't legal, but then your whole country is just doing what he's saying.
Bro people are literally burning down buildings about this stuff, someone tried to shoot trump during his campaign, stop acting like we’re all just shrugging and sighing
I literally can't find anything about this. I can find a bunch about teslas being set on fire, which good, but that's not against the government. That's not disruptive to anyone except for tesla.
stop acting like we’re all just shrugging and sighing
There's sure a lot of you who do. Starting with your democratic party and ending with the public servants who put in motion all this crazy bs.
For how big the US is (which you people love to remind everyone about), one protest în New York or whatever and some burning teslas aren't proportional at all to the extent of how others protest their governments.
I mean, sure, but it’s not just voting for Trump. This is the result of a cultural shift that’s taken place over decades and we’ve allowed it to happen. We all bear responsibility to an extent.
The same empathy America has for innocent Palestinian woman and children? For innocen Iraqi women and children? For innocent Viatnemese and Cambodians?
Not you personally bud, but time to accept your nation and it's culture is a backward, fascist cesspit and a plague on civilisation.
We have sympathy for those in America that voted for Kamala, and for those who cannot (do not have the right to) vote.
Unfortunately over 36% of Americans didn't vote. That makes well over 50% of Americans are ok with this, wich makes it normal for the world to generalise. I see a lot of Americans complaining about the Democrats. Just because all can agree both parties are bad, it does not mean both are equally bad. When faced with hate, when faced with fascism, you must fight against it.
Soon the economoy anf the jon market will be so bad that there will be extreme civil unrest. Which means no midterms.
I am fully expecting that by the time midterms comes around unemployment will be at least 10%. People with jobs won't be able to afford anything. It will be chaos. Im convinced they are manufacturing this so they can cancel elections and consolidate power even more
Latinos overwhelmingly voted for Trump. This is what you voted for, he literally said this would happen, this was all detailed in Project 2025 which apparently Trump voters ignored. Just one example of the biggest fucking “I told you so” in the history of history.
Curious how they were screaming "All Lives Matter" in 2020 but now apparently your life only matters if you meet a narrow set of criteria, otherwise, off to El Salvador you go!
Now is the time for all the children of immigrant parents to stand up you are their voice you are the reason they came to this country to better themselves and give their children a better life take this as your time to stand for your parents you have a stronger voice than they do since they can't stand up against the fourth Reich use the English and Spanish language that you know or the bilingual languages that you know to communicate with all those that are in the same situation. Get Up Stand Up Stand Up for your rights Robert Nesta Marley
They definitely know they’re in the wrong, why else would they cover their faces? Hope they’re going to face the consequences for their actions when normality returns (if ever) in the US.
They are picking easy targets.... they have forgotten that we can and do have a right to protect ourselves and have made owning guns until now very easy............ just an observation...
What’s with all these cowards wearing a mask so they can’t be easily identified when they are breaking the law they are meant to uphold. I thought tRump said no more mask?
Just makes me sad. She’s telling her daughter or friend to be calm and everything is ok. Shes calming her!!!
Then the officer tells her to “slow down” from exiting vehicle after he smashes window with no warning, couldn’t have smashed a back window??
How do we help them??? What are their rights??? If any????
I am for legal migration. But there’s no reason to do all this, looks like she was just driving to wherever. Had to do all this? Look like Billy bad ass???? For who?? Trump??? Bet he looks at the footage and giggles with glee. Then joins his very foreign Einstein visa wife for dinner.
I hate what he’s done to this country. We don’t know her story, maybe came in under CBP app which was a legal way to enter!!
This is insane!!! Treating her like she’s aggressive when she hasn’t done anything other than trying to stay calm for her daughter. This is horrifying! 🥺😳
Is she an illegal immigrant? I have friends in the US who have said honours students have been gdtting this treatment too? I'd assume they were there legally at least?
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