Guy on the left looks like a methhead.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
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The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
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Criminals are impersonating other criminals who are under the power of a criminal
Criminalception!!
authorities issue national warning
Instead of just stopping the behavior that makes this even possible lol
The criminals are impersonating criminals.
To me it sounds more like the cops are impersonating civilians.
You know, this wouldn’t be as much of an issue if they had to, I don’t know, IDENTIFY THEMSELVES.
Who knew sending unidentified masked domestic terrorists to abduct people off the street into unmarked vehicles could lead to problems?
Fascism, folks. Always stupid. Always dangerous.
The literal only difference beetween these kids and ICE is that ICE gets paid.
The literal only difference beetween these kids and ICE is that ICE gets paid.
No, the difference is the amount of backup they have
I wouldn't be surprised if they deputised unpaid volunteers at this point.
Wait, you mean criminals are impersonating the guys that look and act like criminals? How odd.
Don't people realize that ICE are the people with masks that don't have to identify themselves or provide a reason why you should comply and that criminals are the people with masks that don't have to identify themselves or provide a reason why you should comply? Come on, sheeple.
"Johnson was charged with three counts of kidnapping and one count each of impersonating a law enforcement officer, petty larceny, assault and battery, according to jail records."
This is what cop behavior is legally described as when you aren't a cop.
There's an extremely simple solution to this problem
Yeah, shoot anyone in the face that tries to abduct you without proper identification.
Fucking excellent.
Well, not the crime and the general scumbaggery, but the more this happens the more justified you’ll be gunning down a random person claiming to be law enforcement as they attempt to illegally detain people. Every time an ice agent dies an angel gets its wings - if it’s from a legally defensible bullet from a patriot they get to cum too.
Do your part assholes.
Fucking excellent.
Well, not the crime and the general scumbaggery, but the more this happens the more justified you’ll be gunning down a random person claiming to be law enforcement as they attempt to illegally detain people. Every time an ice agent dies an angel gets its wings - if it’s from a legally defensible bullet from a patriot they get to cum too.
Do your part assholes.
Heres a crazy idea. make them wear uniforms with no masks and badges. Crazy I know.
Who could have forseen this could happen?
genuinely, if i was american, i'd make sure to get a license to carry just in case this ever happened to me. anyone not identifying themselves trying to stuff me in an umarked vehicle is a kidnapper and will be treated as such.
Yup. I'm shooting anyone in the face who tries to abduct me without properly identifying themselves. I'll deal with the repercussions after I potentially save myself from being human trafficked or having my organs harvested.
The problem is you might not get the chance to make such a defense in a courtroom. If it is an actual ICE agent, they will just disappear you.
What if these fake ICE officers identified themselves as ICE though? At what point does your identification become truth? The official ICE gestapo already doesn't have to fully identify themselves.
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