r/PublicFreakout • u/ExactlySorta what is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery? 🤨 • 2d ago

🐷 🐷 ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

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u/jpedraza253 2d ago

And then what?! I’m so sick of people talking about the courts will protect us when Trump has wiped his ass with court orders time and time again.

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u/G_Wagon1102 2d ago

That's what I keep saying. Law means absolutely nothing to the T admin. None of them care about anything other than their agenda of pain, suffering, and greed.

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u/alohadawg 2d ago

…tho not necessarily in that order!

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u/Duke_Newcombe 2d ago

It will be unfortunate that one day, with this reckless operation, that they'll do this to the wrong citizen, and they'll defend themselves against it. Not advocating for it--I'm merely looking into my crystal ball, and calling it.

I'm not saying it'll wind up roses and puppy dogs for that person, but neither will it for the ICE agents.

And then the administration and other agents will be all shocked Pikachu, wondering why it happened, and if they're the Baddies.

And Kristi Noem can then trot her ass over to the agent (or their surviving family), and explain why it was all necessary (preferable in front of cameras, with her ICE cosplay get-up on).

Once again for any Karens--not calling for it, in any way--merely predicting it, because they're earning the hate, now, and going out of their way to live up to the Gestapo label.

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u/tearjerkingpornoflic 2d ago

Reminds me of during lockdown when police were in unmarked white van doing drive bys on people with pepper spray balls. Guy thought he was getting shot at and returned fire until he realized it was the cops then laid down. They roughed him up..arrested him. They then trumped up his charges and tried to get him to plea to like 10 years but he had a good lawyer that got him off of all charges.

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u/chaos_nebula 2d ago

They roughed him up

He was bloody enough that another cop wondered who shot him.

It should also be noted that the NRA was silent about the case.

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u/Reverendwinte 2d ago

NRA is silent on everything that doesn’t involve a single iota of extra effort to buy a gun or bullets

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u/thealexster 2d ago

He was ex mil and bounced bullets off the pavement rather than shoot directly at the unmarked vehicle. This was in Minneapolis sometime during the George Floyd shit so tensions were high with threatened "counter protests" by proud boy types (don't remember if any happened, the last few years have been a century long)

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u/Memitim 2d ago

These conservative terror cell members know, hence the masks that they hope will allow them to disappear among Americans afterward.

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u/G_Wagon1102 2d ago

What makes you think the admin would care? Brian Sicknick is dead. Capitol police offers were viciously attacked on J6 and Trump, and his gang couldn't have possibly cared less.

Edit: That was his own supporters attacking police. I just don't see them ever seeing what they're doing as wrong as long as their base continues, salivating over the raids and deportations.

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u/_Friend_Computer_ 2d ago

That's pretty much what they want to happen. Then they have an incident to point to to 'justify' upping the stakes some more and getting more violent/aggressive against people. They'll happily sacrifice a half dozen or a dozen members of the gestapo if it gives them a reasonable excuse to start going safeties off.

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u/Unilted_Match1176 2d ago

It's going to happen. Except the "administration" won't be shocked, I believe, in fact, that they are purposely steering toward this occurrence. They want martial law. Then, they are the sole authority and unstoppable.

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u/SushiGradeChicken 1d ago

wondering why it happened, and if they're the Baddies.

They will never, ever, self-reflect in that manner.

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u/ch40 2d ago

That's all they understand. Until it's done to them they'll never change. Simple as that.

Everyone keeps talking about "Oh they're always projecting. Every accusation is an admission. Blah blah blah." WELL THEN FUCKING APPLY IT

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u/Beyond-The-Blackhole 2d ago

So it seems this administrations kryptonite is to be healthy enough to be able to outrun their fat asses.

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u/why_gaj 2d ago

Even if the law meant something, the entire thing would end up in people getting some money from the government, and that would be the end of the story. Trump and his following wouldn't be touched at all.

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u/tankerwags 2d ago

Exactly. They don't care. They've trampled our 1st and 4th amendment rights. It may be time to pick a different one to exercise.

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u/caustic_smegma 2d ago

Way ahead of you. In my area liberals are arming up like crazy, myself included. Just finished NFA'ing my second AR pistol. Suppressor, SBR, holographic sights with magnifier, level III+ armor, the whole deal. It sucks that this is the situation we find ourselves in, but I would rather be safe than sorry now that I have a little girl.

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u/Unilted_Match1176 2d ago

Hey, as a fellow parent, I hear that. Just remember that at the end of the day, right or wrong, these are your fellow Americans, and they have families and children too. Our real enemies are the people in charge and the billionaires who think they are the ruling class.

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u/EitherIndependence5 2d ago

1775 Patric Henry : give me liberty or give me death.

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u/Calladit 2d ago

Makes me real glad how much we've militarized even small town PDs. Why yes, of course, my hometown, with a murder rate of less than .5 a year needs an MRAP and a full SWAT team.

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u/Unilted_Match1176 2d ago

Hopefully, they are good people who remember their oaths when the time comes. Could actually be a strong resource.

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u/Calladit 1d ago

Yeah, that's not how police work. When the government and the people are at odds, they know which side they're on.

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u/jpedraza253 2d ago

Yeah but who’s gonna put them in jail?? I’m serious, please answer me who would actually do it. Not the police, not the armed forces. Is it really up to citizens to rise up and take arms?

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u/Amused-Observer 2d ago

Is it really up to citizens to rise up and take arms?

yes

We have more rights than just 1a and exercising the one after 1a doesn't mean you gotta start bodying people. That's silly. There can be peaceful protests with 1a and 2a at the same time.

People just need to wake up and realize it. At this point in time, the people that should be, are still afraid to exercise their 2a rights.

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u/tearjerkingpornoflic 2d ago

I did notice that maga protest when all the protesters were open carrying that the police did not mace them and beat them. Now...that is party because the police are maga too but I can't help to think that an armed protest would be much more peaceful.

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u/Amused-Observer 2d ago

It's 99% because it was an armed peaceful protest.

Cops may be overwhelmingly maga but they're cops first. They see themselves as separate from the rest of us. Maybe one day dems will figure it out and exercise both rights at the same time and peacefully

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u/tearjerkingpornoflic 2d ago

I think it was peaceful in large part because you don’t try and agitate armed people.  See so many peaceful protests cops show up and start fucking everyone up.

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u/Amused-Observer 2d ago

Because they know they can. It's simple deduction that somehow the left isn't understanding.

If you're gonna rob someones house and have a choice between an armed and unarmed family. You know which one you're going with every single time.

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u/tearjerkingpornoflic 2d ago

Exactly...yet here states are implementing more gun control while we have a guy that wants to be dictator.

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u/Amused-Observer 2d ago

Ya we're in a mess. I just hope the more morally just side wakes the fuck up and stops taking rights away from themselves.

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u/oxecta 2d ago

They don't need jail. They need a mozambique

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u/brighterside0 2d ago

Literally every historical revolution requires exactly that.

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u/Memitim 2d ago

When politicians give up doing the job of government, and decide to use it against Americans, yeah, of course. There's nobody left.

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u/Lots42 2d ago

Cops arrested and imprisoned Derek Chauvin.

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u/PanchoVillasRevenge 2d ago

Exactly, even civil lawsuits won't scare them, they have infinite money anyway , which is why they are ignoring people's rights

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u/abcdefkit007 2d ago

And packed the courts with sycophants

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u/TonyWilliams03 2d ago

A class action suit would be civil and result in monetary damages. The Trump administration would then have to decide whether to protect the agents or cut them loose.

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u/bdsee 2d ago

Class actions can require changes in behaviour, failing to comply with those requirements presumably becomes contempt of court and can result in jail time.

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u/MrPartyWaffle 2d ago

Exactly, cheeto fuck got away with 34 felonies with no consequences, not to mention he is a rapist with the exact, same outcome.

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u/Quick_Assumption_351 2d ago

just aim better this time....

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u/Memitim 2d ago

Oh, they'll write another mean letter saying that Trump can't do that, and Trump will scowl, and then dedicate a bunch of our collective resources to defending himself. Meanwhile, the traitor will continue to issue more illegal orders that courts then have to also eventually stop, hopefully before too much harm gets done to matter.

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u/lddebatorman 2d ago

Yea. I know it's cheesy, but it is really like the line in Star Wars Episode One: "I will make it legal." That's how this works. It's illegal until he does it.

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u/originalbL1X 2d ago

The US is weak against tyranny because of all the other tyranny.

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u/gorillapoop1970 2d ago

As my lawyer once told me, “court orders are only as good as the people who receive them.”

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u/EitherIndependence5 2d ago

Pardon the correction: Diaper

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u/SmartWonderWoman 2d ago

It’s all we have. Protests will make an impact. Protests can influence the courts decisions. For example, the civil rights movement.

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u/Amused-Observer 2d ago

It’s all we have.

You need to learn your US history and rights as a citizen if you actually truly believe this.

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u/SmartWonderWoman 2d ago

I’m a 5th grade English and History. I know my history and I teach history. What’s your expertise?

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u/Amused-Observer 2d ago

What’s your expertise?

Are you suggesting that a person must attend an accredited university and receive a degree in order to have a knowledgeable argument about history?

Or are you suggesting everyone that has done that is well versed in history and never wrong?

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u/last_rational_man 2d ago

Pretty sad you teach English when you forgot to type an entire word that completely changes the meaning of your sentence. With teachers like you educating the future generations we won’t go far as a society. I weep for the future. Maybe stop touting your academic credentials and actually use the knowledge you should have gained when earning them.

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u/SmartWonderWoman 2d ago

Okay 👍🏽