32 points

A lot of people commenting clearly did not read the article.

  • The US Marshalls are the only agency that stated that they were not involved (but were aware). The others just don’t have answers for the obvious questions.
  • There was a warrant, with names of people that were likely previous residents.
  • The family had just moved in two weeks ago. The warrant, etc was likely using outdated information.

There are a lot of problems with this operation, but let’s keep it within the facts.

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126 points

five days or less and the administration will be claiming this entire family were gang members; we’ll be looking at photoshopped tattoos in no time.

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37 points

Those hello kitty tattoos are a sure sign of Yakuza affiliation.

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18 points

many people are saying it…

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Clearly members of the Kawaii Mafia.

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7 points

I heard they were PG-13

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79 points

Who gave them an incorrect warrant? What was it for? What’s the point of listing names on a warrant if you ignore them? Why is every department claiming they weren’t involved? Why were they collecting evidence from people not involved or listed on the warrant?

What exactly are any of us supposed to do if this happens?

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78 points
  • there probably wasn’t a warrant
  • there probably wasn’t a warrant
  • there probably wasn’t a warrant
  • there probably wasn’t a warrant
  • spite is the point, and there probably wasn’t a warrant
  • they have taken away every avenue of peaceful resistance. Their goal is for us to arm up and resist with violence so that they can declare martial law. Even though this is their plan and what they want, eventually we will have no other option. I won’t put my thoughts on the specifics of that here
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The president’s private militias systematically terrorize the working class. There’s nothing left. We’ll find out the full extent of what they’ve done once the regime collapses under its own weight. If these are the stories getting out, what ones haven’t gotten out yet.

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52 points

I am armed. The first ICE agent to knock on my door doesn’t go home. And we roll from there. Fuck this.

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I’m armed too, but I think you would probably end the day in a bag, maybe a metal locker with a long pull-out shelf.

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Ice are trained like russian mobiks and your home is a forteress. You can probs surrender to swat and get away scot free. If things are too bad you can always plead 2nd amendment.

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19 points

Rather go down swinging than get disappeared to Venezuela.

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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.

    When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

    When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

    When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

    Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

    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.

    That’s the solution.

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