“Police detain a protester blocking the garage entrance of the Los Angeles Federal Building following multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 6, 2025. REUTERS/Daniel Cole”
“Detain”, that’s a nice way to put “hit in the back of the head/neck with a giant stick and then had four armed and armored officers beat him while he laid on the ground”
I saw someone make a comment about it on a reel, so take it with as much salt as you feel is warranted. But they mentioned it was all over the neighborhood app so folks stayed away.
There are reports of ICE hitting small child school graduations (i can’t remember if it was elementary school or kindergarten specifically from memory) on Friday to go after parents.
though Trump fanboys will probably say "he means it's promoting division and lack of trust in the government while allowing dangerous criminals on your streets!"
Saw on the evening news 2,000 national guard will be deployed unless someone puts a pause on it. Nobody in CA asked for them. Our governor is speaking against it.
I have no doubt this will be an attempt to make an example out of a liberal city, and that the administration is gleeful at the opportunity to sew chaos in a blue state.
Trump also threatened that the federal government could “step in” to deal with the unrest, saying:
“If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!”
and I hesitate to say the Governor is speaking against it. he didn't say a thing about refusing his own state's NG being used against it, y'know, like a stooge
When I mentioned Newsom speaking against something, it's the national guard being deployed. I did not catch any other commentary from him on the bigger situation in that report.
yeeeeah, fuck Newsom, we need a dem with a spine and a respect for our people and our rights. I hope he disappears from politics after his shitty showing against the fascist regime
Still frustrated that we're still stuck with him, I was so overwhelmed after finding out who we got stuck with for president that I hadn't realized we weren't able to oust Newsom in November
I’m not going to pretend that people aren’t getting violent against ICE here but it ALWAYS starts as just a bunch of people peacefully obstructing, it’s always ICE who throws the first punch and then we meet their violence with violence
I watched a live stream on the citizen app yesterday of an incident happening a few block from me where a guy was just recording ICE kidnapping someone, not laying his hand on anyone, and a masked ICE prick came right up and hit him in the face
yeah I'm pretty sure the union president they hospitalized and held without charges is currently being accused of basically standing in front of a car and inconveniencing ICE slightly
it's pretty telling that even their own justifications for crackdowns are pretty much "they annoyed us so we started beating the shit out of them and it's their fault"
I'd have to dig into the civil engineering specs for DC, which I'm too tired to do, but typical highway is H-20/H-25 load rated, which is anything that you'd have in traffic
𝓓𝓲𝓼𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓼
: my guess is the ones being attacked would hate it, and the fascists in charge would gleefully take it as an opportunity to ramp up even more violent authoritarianism, using the mask vigilantes to raise enough doubt that it inhibits the pushback
sugah
: In hot weather, even trucks the roads are rated for can deform the pavement...it's a serious problem in Baltimore, our major roads are rippled because of it.
Also, they probably hit the person recording because recordings of unconstitutional behavior are evidence, evidence is accountability, and accountability is an attack to these people...
Where the fuck did the AP get the doofus that wrote this shit? “A less flattering side of Los Angeles.” Apparently it’s not flattering to fight off fascists tooth and nail? We should roll over and just let these secret police kidnappings happen, that’d be much more flattering, right? https://apnews.com/...
i know someone who, after living abroad for several years, recently came back to the US with their non-American spouse, and I'm just..... i understand there are a lot of considerations, but you're doing this right now???
you can't expect tourism dollars when you build an increasing reputation of treating valid passports conditionally, dude's fundamentally a dimwit. Canadians, French, and UK citizens have already been flagged for illegal detention, it's lunacy.
one of Jess's undergrad professors had, at that time, spent over a decade studying the violent gangs in the LA sheriff's department. Which is obviously not the lapd, but she had also, thru that, had a lot on contact with and assembled a lot of information on how horrific the lapd is as well
and that video's a great example (morally awful, but great for demonstration) honestly, like you can tell one of the other cops there knows he's supposed to get his angy friend to chill out or get the hell away from the situation
that's exactly how you get from Good Intentions to ACAB--if you go out of your way to be trusted with a potentially life-or-death responsibility which is supposed to include keeping your colleagues in line and then systematically fail to do it, that's bad, no matter your intentions
it'd be like if EMTs systematically didn't bother rushing to answer calls, didn't pay any attention to what they were doing, didn't say anything to prevent a coworker from making a mistake...
Also, people in that job who act on good intentions when it involves keeping their coworkers in line often die in the line of duty under mysterious or not so mysterious circumstances.
yeah there's definitely a strong and well documented tendency for Actually Good Cops to be either harassed out of the force, or harassed into not being Good any more
“If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!”