There was an incident where an agent flashed an ATF badge at courthouse security and made an ICE arrest just outside a courthouse elevator (tackling the innocent man and knocking over an elderly person using a cane in the process), so they might have been from a different agency but still doing gestapo shit.
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Oh fuck okay, I saw that video but didnt know that bit about it bring an ATF agent. I made a 
post that got locked about this whole thing so I think I'll just make another one with some of this information. There are tens of thousands of people who will just view posts, the libs need to be agitated and know that just because "oh it was a different agency doing what they're supposed to do!" That they aren't corrupt. I'm deep in the trenches in online activism lmao
From the videos I've seen lately, no they do not need to wear anything identifying themselves. I have seen several videos of plainclothes agents with no badges. Maybe they are supposed to but they don't seem to be held to that
So "normal" looking people are hauling their fellow man away. Why should castle doctrine not apply in an instance otherwise indistinguishable from kidnapping?
Well, for anyone who isn't a citizen then it would be very easy to have murdering a government official be used against them. Maybe slightly less so for citizens but still a big risk, assuming you make it out alive. Typically they outnumber the people they are kidnapping and are likely all armed themselves.
I mentioned it in another thread on the topic but the only real semblance of a viable strategy I can think of would be to have armed patrols like the Panthers had, and some kind of hotline for rapid response deployment. It would be very challenging to organize this, but I've seen some cases of people being de-arrested at protests recently by other protesters acting swiftly. I think I saw a report of an ICE kidnapping going that way too.
There are instances of rapid response networks that have popped up, but I do feel like regular patrols need to happen especially in very diverse communities
I think technically it does. I wish I could remember who it was, but there was a case in the 60s or 70s where a Black Panther member shot a plain-clothes police officer that was attacking his comrade. The shooter got off without any charges because from his perspective he thought he was stopping an attack versus hindering an arrest. I can't imagine any armed black person not getting riddled with bullets or charged with attempted murder if they did the same thing today.
At that time, if I remember correctly, Assault on a Police Officer was a misdemeanor but is now a felony so it's also costlier to participate in that. They changed it because there were so many people fighting back then.
So, try doing that now and you'll get a felony if not terrorism charges. They learned their lesson from the Panthers, unfortunately.
There was a guy in Texas who killed a cop in a no knock raid, iirc, and got off free eventually.
I remember a case of plainclothes ICE (I believe) that were searching for some undocumented person and approached a mom with her kids in her car. She tried to drive away and they pulled out their guns so she allegedly tried to run them over but they shot her dead in front of her kids
Turned out that they weren't even looking for her. Just killed some random brown mom. Oops.
That's fucking horrific
Somehow found the article and, damn time flies, it happened in 2012. I thought it was a few years ago under Biden, but maybe it was another similar case.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plain-clothes-border-patrol-agent-kills-32-year-old-mother/
Makes sense, why would they be held to any sort of standard? Ive heard some people speculate that some of these arrests are probably just proud boys or some shit like that which I wouldn't doubt for a second and is even scarier.
I saw something else recently about ICE hiring "contractors" to pick up people and so you might be right about that
Blackwater
God thats so fucking scary