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ICE agents are living in fear as the public turns against them in record numbers after one of their colleagues shot a mom dead in the street.

Not as much fear as the people whose doors your busting down without a warrant.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago
[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

"There is genuine fear that indeed ICE’s heavy-handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around."

What the fuck.

This dipshit literally thinks it should be our lives in danger. These people deserve everything coming to them.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

They like to imagine themselves a modern day "Untouchables" standing up to violent gangs in a way no one else is willing to do. They imagine that's all the illegal immigrants do is commit violent crime.

At least some of them are confused by killing a non-criminal white woman citizen and how the administration is doubling down. Some of them didn't sign up to kill white people.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 16 hours ago

Something tells me that soon enough, they'll be right

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago
[–] Saffire@sh.itjust.works 41 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

But not terrified enough to quit being Nazis, apparently.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

No. Just enough to put them on edge "about officer safety" so they just start shooting people.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

ICE agents deserve to be terrified

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

We need to remind them there is far more of us than them. They send 20? We should send 200. Out number them and make them fear for their lives, not the other way around.

If we as citizens are unsure if we can go home today without being killed by ICE, they should feel the same.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago
[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago

They aren't nearly terrified enough. They shouldn't be allowed to sleep, nor leave their car tires unattended, nor get delivery, nor trust what's in their fast food orders.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 23 points 21 hours ago
[–] _t_o_@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago (3 children)

the fact this poor womens last name is Good. And the articles speak to the "killing of Good" is so spot on it feels like if you wrote this in a story, the editor would tell you not to be so obvious about it.

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

History is filled with these moments lol. Whatever entity that is writing our story would benefit from learning wtf subtlety is.

"The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense." -Mark Twain

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's absolutely true. If 2 decades ago anyone had written a story or movie about a president acting like Trump, it would have been considered too unrealistic to publish.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago

As they should be. Should've behaved themselves from the beginning

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 230 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good. Nazis should fear every moment of their life.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Turns out beating and abducting your friends and neighbors doesn't win any popularity contests.

Unmask the fuckers.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

I've heard there's a list floating around. I'd like a copy.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 204 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They should be terrified. Every collaborator with this fascist regime should be hounded every moment for the rest of their lives. When they're grocery shopping, at a restaurant, at church. Every moment should be a glaring reflection of the sucking hole in their souls where their morals should be.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Bullshit. They need to feel real fear.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 23 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

May they never know a day of peace for the rest of their pathetic Nazi lives. When this is over we need 100 years of leftist McCarthyism and COINTELPRO

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 23 hours ago

Long overdue to finish Reconstruction.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

One former agent told the Daily Beast that he and his colleagues fear it has become more common for juries not to believe evidence they are presenting to the court.

Thats good to hear. But its not gonna be enough i fear.

“If this situation continues, many of us fear that when the Dems get back in, they will dissolve ICE altogether,” he said. “For those of us who care about the good work ICE has done in the past three decades, that’s a very sad state of affairs.”

Still blaming democrats for the consequences of the things that Trump is doing.

[–] dublet@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the good work ICE has done

[citation needed]

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

They consider murder, torture, and terror “good work.”

They mean “Renee Good work.”

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Still blaming democrats for the consequences of the things that Trump is doing.

Its a cult

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 132 points 1 day ago

Good, may they never get a full nights sleep ever again.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This made me wonder what murderer Jonathan Ross has been up to. Apparently he and his family are in hiding. It's not what it should be, him in jail, but it is encouraging that his decision to murder someone has led to actual consequences for him. The people had to do it since the system most certainly will not.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Republicans likely have funded putting him away and out of sight in some nice hotel while they figure out what to do about the situation.

They have no idea what to do about the situation. I just watched Kristi Noem basically set herself on fire on Jake Tapper. The emperor demanded she fall on her blade and she's so weak and pathetic that she did it.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 107 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Not scared enough if they haven't resigned.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

By all means, behaving like a Nazi should be a major mortal liability. ICE agents are enemies not just to the United States, but to humanity as a whole. They should live in fear; and may that fear be actualized sooner than later.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago

I want these bastards to be hunted down and put to the rope. They earned their hate.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 95 points 1 day ago

Good! The gestapo isn't wanted. Next out is the regime! They ALL should be afraid!

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 77 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I hope these guys end up spending their lives in fear and get pulled out of their retirement homes like all those nazi war criminals. No quarter.

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Good. I hope you never get a good night's sleep again.

Especially once you're tucked in next to Big Bubba behind bars where you deserve to be...

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[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 day ago

Everyone who masks up to kidnap people or shoot them in the face should be terrified to leave their house.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Sure, ICE should be scared that someone might kill them, but a more interesting question is if a prosecutor could find 12 people in an ICE-occupied city that would convict someone of that killing.

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