The bystanders, two women, who questioned the ICE agents and stood between them and their target outside the general district court Tuesday also wore face masks. ICE says the pair will face federal obstruction charges.
“The U.S. Attorney’s Office intends to prosecute those individuals,” ICE said.
Brian McGinn, the spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia, had nothing to add.
“We cannot confirm or deny the existence of an ongoing investigation,” he told The Daily Progress.
The two women appear to be volunteers with the Immigration Rapid Response Hotline, a public service promoted by several civil rights and immigrant support groups. A witness to the Tuesday raid told The Daily Progress that the hotline had been called when the ICE agents were spotted.
Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war on Virginia’s college campuses in the past year have also worn masks to obscure their identities without prosecution.
the daILy ProGReSs everyone
I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t see why a witness to an in progress armed kidnapping by masked men who refuse to identify themselves wouldn’t be totally justified in shooting them graveyard dead in any of these “stand your ground” states.
Because “stand your ground” has always meant “can shoot minorities of you are ‘scared’”.
if they’re dressed all in black and wearing balaclavas, how’s a reasonable law abiding citizen to know whether they’re cops or minorities?
Eventually they are going to pull some shit in someone’s house and get Castle Doctorined.
Been telling my family about this and they’ve been scared shitless. I dont see why blasting these pigs to dust would be an issue.
You could even use a libertarian defense to get the right wingers creaming
Bit idea: standing trial for shooting ICE agents because you thought they were AUNTIEVAH trying to kidnap our patriots and take them away to Pizza Hut.
based on the person they’re kidnapping, if you see a white person getting kidnapped by strangers in baklavas it’s probably me.
honkeys are a global minority
look, at this point, if they’re gonna lock you up for even questioning what they’re doing, the best thing to do is to just fucking shoot them
They’re not going to like when they finally take everything away and we have nothing to lose
someone’s gonna do it one of these days
Not encouraging fedpostjng or anything, but they’re seriously trying to push as hard as they can to the point of causing some killer blowback and they’re just going
all the way down with the proverbial nuke that’ll blow them right in the kisser 💋I’m worried that they’re waiting for somebody to do something so they can go whole hog
Wait isn’t that the Jakarta method
uh oh
No doubt. That’s the blowback part, starting a vicious cycle of ever escalating violence till something gives way.
Normally I would assume the government would squash any uprising like a bug but things are so crazy and everything is stretched so thin, they’re taking a bigger risk than they think in assuming it will break their way
According to this website (thanks you capo dog), there’s a minimum 6,000 active duty troops most continental us states (coastal states have a lot more), totallimg 1.1 millon troops
those leftie gun clubs I’ve seen photos of have like 20 members, and theyre not logistically set up to communicate with other groups. This does make it harder to squash if it pops off in many places at once, but I think the us&a will crush whatever tbh
one negative of having no conscription is reds dont have a presence in the armed forces
That is part of the reason they got rid of conscription. During Vietnam, there were studies done that showed that a large number of officer death were likely ‘friendly fire’ incidents by conscripts. That and it got rid of the social pressure created by constant protests of conscription at home. As the empire begins to flail though, it wouldn’t surprise me if they start to reintroduce the idea of mandatory service.
I agree. they fucked up by alienating their own government and defunding and disrupting everything. they could have implemented an ironclad well oiled fascist machine by just not pushing the “break economy” button and leaving the administrative state alone for the duration of their crackdown
They are and they aren’t. If they’re anything like Guatemala’s paramilitaries then the individuals push so they can have an excuse to beat your ass. The leadership themselves aren’t quite as brazen and aren’t intentionally aiming for that but at the same time they’ll be looking the other way if things do reach that point and their grunts go wild.
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Obstructing our extralegal activities is criminal behavior and you will be persecuted … uh … I mean prosecuted!
Identify ourselves? We don’t need to do that
Look folks, you gotta be careful. You have these things called Names and Addresses and if someone gets your Name and Address they can make your life hell. They can egg your house, light fireworks outside your home in the middle of the night, have your utilities turned off, prank phone call you at all hours, vandalize your vehicles, vandalize your home, I’ve even heard of people being swatted. And if they get a hold of your social security number? Fuuuck. Open up accounts in your name, rack up all sorts of debt, the possibilities are endless. It is very easy to ruin anyone’s life with just a few bits of information and a willingness to get your hands dirty.
You gotta be careful.
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This is when we start playing roblox on sight because we love the game so much that we want to bring it into real life all the time everywhere
