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[a character looks sad in front of a sad city, under the sunset]
Things aren't looking great…
It sucks when the state kills people
Wish we could do something about it

[the character is now in front of their TV, showing ICE agents surrounding a bleeding corpse on the floor]
Wait… this time they killed WHITE people
This means it could happen to me too?!

[an angry crowd is demonstrating, holding various signs such as…]
THIS TIME YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR
I DRAW THE LINE HERE
TOLERATE NO MORE

2025-31-12, Keith Porter, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-09-12, Silverio Villegas González, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-07-28, Jaime Alanis Garcia, shot and killed by ICE agents

27 shootings by ICE in 2025,
8 of which were lethal

31 deaths in ICE custody in 2025

11 deaths in ICE custody in 2024
7 deaths in ICE custody in 2023
3 deaths in ICE custody in 2022
5 deaths in ICE custody in 2021
18 deaths in ICE custody in 2020
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2019
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2028

https://thebad.website/comic/vanilla_ice

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 164 points 3 weeks ago (70 children)

Stop trying to divide us when we are trying to unite. The white people that are getting killed are the ones trying to help and warn their neighbors. Keep making them feel guilty and they may just give up.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree. I'm minority and I support starting to be pissed at this at any level and time. Just stick to it until its not a problem anymore.

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[–] parricc@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This. People were already protesting ICE long before Renée Good got killed. The racists, white supremacists, and nazis are still not protesting today. They don't care if a murdered protestor is white. A Nazi is going to view any white protesters as race traitors. What's happening right now is a dramatic shift in the scope of what ICE is doing. Rather than simply targeting immigrants, it's being deployed against protestors and in crowd control efforts. The extent of people they're targeting and how they're targeting them is dramatically expanding as well.

In 2025, at least 32 people died in custody after being detained by ICE. This has caused massive protests nationwide.

But in 2025, there were only 2 people known to have been shot and killed by ICE:

Silverio Villegas González - September 12 - undocumented immigrant shot and killed by ICE in his car after dropping his kids off at school in Chicago. Video circulated online of his window getting broken out and him getting dragged out of the car after being shot.

Keith Porter - December 31 - African American father shot and killed in Los Angeles while allegedly setting off fireworks. There are no videos of what happened.

The first people shot and killed by ICE in 2026 include:

Renée Good - January 7 - woman shot and killed in her vehicle in Minneapolis. Videos of the incident circulated online. She was not actively protesting.

Alex Pretti - January 24 - protestor murdered execution style in Minneapolis for attempting to help a woman get safely to a sidewalk.

That's it. This image includes completely incorrect information. Jaime Alanís Garcia died from breaking his neck after allegedly falling 30 feet from a building while a cannabis farm was being raided by ICE in Ventura County, California. ICE and CBP claims they were not targeting him. There's no video of the incident.

Stuff is dramatically escalating, and it's presumably about to get much much worse.

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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 69 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yep.

People should’ve already been angry. But better late than never.

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Yeah. Memes like this are making the perfect the enemy of the good. Is there an issue? Sure. Is this the right time for that issue? I'm not so sure about that one.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People were already angry. Why is everyone acting like people are just now suddenly getting upset?

If everyone's effort gets erased every time a white person is made a victim, and suddenly we can't be upset anymore because a victim happened to be white, then what are we truly accomplishing?

What's the real message behind this post?

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s pretty much what I mean.

This post is insinuating that a number of the people upset now should have been upset when it wasn’t white people dying.

And I agree. Many of us were already upset.

But making that point this way is unhelpful. It feels like potentially a way to divide those who are trying to resist. “I was angry before it was mainstream, you new protesters are racists.”

Which could very well not be the intention of the person making the point. They could be trying to simply say, “Understand that people had already been killed, and if you knew that and weren’t angry, be better” or something.

But it is so incredibly easy to make people in big tents infight and focus on idealogical purity rather than uniting to fight the opposition. And it’s something we need to avoid if we want to be successful.

When it comes to fighting fascism, my enemy’s enemy is my friend.

So on the assumption that this comic was posted in good faith, I think merciful correction or gentle disagreement is more useful.

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[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 67 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Uh Oh people seem to be uniting in solidarity. Guess we better find a way to tear them apart!"

OP probably.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

let op vent. Black and brown people have every fucking right to be pissed at the sudden shift from the daily lackadaisical attitude of white people while black and brown people have been lynched on streets for decades for fighting for your rights. When black and brown people win, white people win. When black and brown people lose, white people keep on goin. White people are suddenly inconvenienced at the ideo that they no longer have a second amendment. Welcome to the daily lives of black and brown people you have been unaware of until now since white people are finally rejecting their capital W Whiteness.

Previous years white people put up a black avatar on instagram for george floyd and brianna taylor. Now theyre willing to die when its white people.

Major shift in attitude from the whites and yes its about damn time white people woke up to the violence. Keep putting your bodies in the front though and do some good

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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 56 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I get it, but if this is the line for somebody, then that person is finally angry at the right people for the right reasons. You can tell them off and bicker amongst yourselves after its over. Just be glad theyre finally on the right side for now.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The best 'convert' is the one that got there on their own. They're already primed to believe us when we warn next time.

We do harm by mocking the leopards-ate-my-face crowd when they finally catch on. Even if it is cathartic.

There's room to tell them "Oh that thing we warned you about actually happened? maybe we weren't crazy", but we should then welcome them in and guide them instead of a rude "I told ya so" and no empathy.

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly. As the ol' saying goes: "the Right looks for converts, the Left looks for traitors." We need to change that.

The reason the far right has grown so much is because of how they bring people into the fold. "oh, you were one of them libtards, but now you support our one true god Donald J Trump? Hell yeah brother, welcome to the side of the patriots!!11!1!" vs. "oh you voted for Trump, but now you hate ICE? We warned you this would happen, fuck you Trump voter!"

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How many of those were captured on video? From multiple angles?

We don't have to pretend America doesn't have a racism problem to know that rhetoric like this is not well intentioned.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Minneapolis: Check.

On video: Check.

Massive uproar: Check.

White victim: Nope.

George Floyd's death shows that what matters is that it happened in front of witnesses who were recording on video, not the colour of the victims' skin.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Definitely for the most part. There's certainly a race component but the narrative that it's only that is just divisive bullshit.

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[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 weeks ago

Indistinguishable from Russian propaganda to agitate for class division and disrupt solidarity. Fuck outta here with this self-righteous, tone-deaf slopaganda.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It would be naive to think race isn't a factor here, but documentation of the crime is also a huge portion of it as well. I have seen the murder of Renee Good from at least 3 different angles, and Alex Pretti from 4, including the exact moment they shot him in the back. There are certainly a lot of Americans that would be more likely to justify this if they had been PoC, but there was also a lot of national outrage over Eric Garner and George Floyd because of how heavily documented those murders were.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 26 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

This is true, but detracts from the cause at the moment

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Lots of people, myself included, have been angry about this for awhile now. But also, deaths in 25 were more than twice as high than the next highest listed. And 27 shootings 3 fatalities just in this year, and January isn't even over. Yeah, even more people are obviously going to be angry.

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[–] Hypnotoad_@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago

"no go back to fighting each other"

Fuck out of here you propagandist bitch

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

not to mention the horrors that are probably happening under wraps at their concentration camps and prisons.

immigrants are being abducted left and right for a while now.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

*citizens (at least some of the time)

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Phew, I'm not a trade unionist, I'm still safe

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[–] bossito@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Cheap joke with no added value besides demoralizing and dividing the good side. This is not the way.

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[–] sobchak@programming.dev 15 points 3 weeks ago

Some of it is a function of media. Media typically doesn't cover when non-white people get murdered. Some of it is the media reflecting the racism of its viewers. Some of it is being caught on video and leaving less room for doubt (and the media deciding to show the videos). There's also been protests and action being taken by normal citizens before these white people got killed (these white people were killed doing it, after all).

[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Part of the reason we are seeing such an active protest movement now is that ICE is doing its thing in Minneapolis, which was able to mobilize the existing activist network that was created as a result of the police murder of notable ~~white~~ black person George Floyd. This murder was national news and led to police reform in a bunch of states.

When notable ~~white~~ Salvadorian person Kilmar Abrego Garcia was illegal deported to a foreign torture prison, there was nation wide protest, with Senate Chris Van Hollen traveling to El Salvador. This nationwide protest movement eventually secured his release.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

History time.

After the Kent State shootings, a lot of people stepped away from activism because they realized that marching could get them killed.

I'd say the difference right now is that Kent state came out of nowhere; there'd been plenty of marches before with no problem. Trump has been tearing down the rule of law for a decade now.

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[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

You find this sort of hipster messaging is ever actually helpful?

[–] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 11 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Better late than never, we can hold ppl accountable for inaction AFTER we beat the system

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[–] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I am happy that people are mad about the death of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But I am also saddened that it took their deaths for people to care. If I was killed by ICE next week, would anyone care? Do I not deserve angry protesters?

Highly disappointed with this comment section right now. If you feel divided by this post then maybe take time to reflect. You're not a villain for only being sad about he recent killings, but getting mad at Bad for posting this is a shame.

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

People have been caring for a mong time. These killing are just so violent, so obviously unjustified, and most importantly, they have been filmed with many many angles, that it show how full of hate ICE and MAGA really are.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

People were already upset even before Good and Pretti were murdered. Why are you pretending people didn't care before?

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Mission objective: get the Nazi's out. As with Germany after the war, there can be painful reflection. For no, just get the Nazis out, out out.

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