In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
    13·
    7 days ago

    The FBI only put a bulletin warning that masked individuals might be pretending to be government agents, just now? After nine months of terrorism? How is this not seen as authoritarian move? This is like with any full blown authoritarian states where the dear leader says something vague tantamount to directing a purge. And when enough people were purged, the dear leader would then say that his goons had gone too far from his original intent and order them to stop. This is not the first time America did something similar; the red scare and the McCarthy’s communist witch hunts went on long enough to tarnish people’s reputation, before Harry Truman made a speech calling out what is happening as unfair to people whose reputations were ruined. The powers-that-be know what the heck their doing and the last minute “call to sanity” is to white wash their deliberate intentions.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      When this is over I will personally punch whichever democrats decides to pardon them all or refuse to prosecute them or even fire them to “heal the nation”.

      Every single ICE agent belongs behind bars

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 days ago

    How about, like every other law enforcement agency, you can demand name and badge number, and ICE must reply. If they dont, they are not law enforcement, just masked criminals.

    I mean… bare minimum at fucking least.

      • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        In Cyberpunk, the NCPD is basically just another gang. More organized than the Valentinos or Tiger Claws, but pretty much the same by the end of the day.

        In real life though, ICE seems to be a lot like a gang too. Have they pivoted to drugs and violent extortion yet? You know, if you smuggle guns and slaves, you can make a lot of money?

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
          9·
          8 days ago

          There’s no way ICE hasn’t been involved in illegal drug smuggling for decades. It doesn’t work without corrupt people in those kinds of positions. DEA and CBP as well.

  • IndridCold@lemmy.ca
    33·
    7 days ago

    I always thought protesters should wear jeans or tan tactical pants, boots, vest and plate ($35-50 from Amazon), a tacticool utility belt ($20-30 from amazon), helmet ($30 from amazon) a black Balaclava Ski Mask ($6), with sunglasses. On the right chest have a random ID number like “A462”. Slap an American flag patch (or a Police gang patch with the blue line).

    You could even throw in a functional gas mask for $50

    These ICE creeps don’t have a proper issued uniform. They bought their shit off amazon as well. I saw one dude who looked like he was wearing airsoft/paintball stuff.

    Can you imagine the confusion if everyone dressed in tacticool? Those untrained ICE idiots would be completely lost.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      7 days ago

      The JR “Bob” Dobbs mantra - “If you act like a dumb shit, they’ll treat you like an equal”.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          7 days ago

          Wow, I have not seen a church of the sub genius reference in almost 20 years.

          Well, that’s probably just part of the Pink Conspiracy. They’ve been stealing your slack.

          They just had a cool doc about them come out not that long ago. Sadly, the podcast/Hour of Slack has come to an end:

          https://archive.org/details/hourofslack

          The Hour of Slack was produced weekly since 1985 by REV. IVAN STANG (PO Box 807, Glen Rose, Texas, 76043, USA) – more years than Johnny Carson or David Letterman were on the air. The show was discontinued in June, 2022; host Rev. Stang simply got burned out after 37 years of weekly shows. His hearing loss wasn’t helping either.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      7 days ago

      Yup.

      It would be VERY easy to infiltrate them while they’re out in the field. Just surround them with people looking just like them. They’d have no option but to retreat.

    • Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      I would, but with my luck that would be the day everyone decides enough is enough and they start beating the dogshit out of every ice agent lol

    • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      And do this on Halloween so they can’t arrest you for impersonating an officer either! #lifeHacks

      Sorry 🤭

      EDIT: Oh, wait… no, wait a minute… does the fact that they don’t have an officially issued uniform really mean that technically you could argue in court that you were not impersonating an officer? That. Is. Wildly stupid of them if true.

      • IndridCold@lemmy.ca
        3·
        7 days ago

        As long as you had nothing on your “uniform” that said Police or had a badge of any sort, they would be hard pressed to charge you with anything. If they nabbed you, and you weren’t black bagged to a blackzone and disappeared, you could always say you arrived to protest wearing a helmet, plate carrier, gas mask because of the documented law enforcement violence towards citizens. The pouches and utility belt could contain things like first aid supplies.

  • drhodl@lemmy.world
    25·
    7 days ago

    This just tells me that the “real” ICE agents, are doing criminal stuff and the FBI are just getting in front of that. What did they think would happen when you give the otherwise unemployable a badge and a gun, and empower them?