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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
Never let the assailant take you to the secondary location.
Urban self defense classes have been teaching this since the 1970s, at least.
They look like terrorists.
Well they are wearing masks and striking fear on a civilian population for a political agenda, so I think your terminology is textbook.
they are terrorists
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.
Turns out having a constitution isn't enough. You have to actually follow and enforce it to be effective.
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.
I mean... That's pretty much what they did.
Looks like four domestic terrorists.
That's because they are.
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?
You're right. And if you feel threatened, you could just shoot them. "Had no idea they were cops. They hid their faces like gang members."
They aren't ICE. There's not enough ICE agents for the job. At BEST, they are bounty hunters deputized by ICE and given $1k for each brown person they bring in.
No reasononable person would believe these are police. Not guilty.
Anybody else dressed like that in the street would be arrested.
And.. Are these the guys kidnapping children at primary schools and playgrounds? Cuz they do wear the right clothes for such occasion.
Omg, they can't breathe, they are inhaling their own CO2 & toxic bacteria, they are probably dead already!!
Photoshop some darker skin on them and post them on some conservative site and see the difference in reactions.
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
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.
Send this to your MAGA relatives with the caption "these guys good or bad?" and no additional context.
It would be a real shame if people started dousing these fascist fucks with bright red hair dye so that they can be identified after they remove their fucking fash masks.
There are some pepper sprays that are mixed with red difficult-to-remove dye for the purpose of identifying those involved in an incident.
Legal in California!
They don't look like law enforcement, you should probably open fire if they try and get onto your property.
They are terrorists.
I'm pretty sure, in some states, You can shoot people looking like that.
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.
Pathetic. Take off your masks, pussies. I wanna see the faces of the people who kidnap my friends.
12 gauge slugs is the answer here.
All I see are a couple of MS13 members about to perform a kidnapping, better alert SWAT!
