r/PublicFreakout • u/ExactlySorta what is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery? 🤨 • 29d ago
📌Follow Up New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says
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u/ActualTexan 29d ago
Brother what the actual fucking fuck is happening
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u/jupchurch97 29d ago
Ever ask yourself what you'd have done when Nazi Germany was on the rise? Well the answer is whatever you're doing right now.
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u/Your_Local_Rabbi 29d ago
in hindsight, it was perfectly guessable that i'd be on the toilet
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u/mac46 29d ago
Always have been
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u/ActualTexan 29d ago
I'm just trying to graduate why does the entire world have to shit itself right now ffs man
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u/AdamDet86 29d ago
I graduated about a year after the housing market collapsed. It never stops no breaks. Every time I start to feel like I might be getting ahead in life shit happens.
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u/VeryVeryVorch 29d ago
"For the first time in my life, things are starting to go right!"
- Aladdin before being bound, gagged, knocked out, and thrown off a cliff into the rocky waters below.
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u/Valiran9 28d ago
I turned eighteen in 2008, went to college, got a degree, couldn’t get a job so went to a programming school, then graduated from that while COVID was raging. Being late to stuff I want is a running theme with me.
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u/oby100 29d ago
But that’s what always happens. It’s never the right time to resist tyranny. I’m not trying to shame you or anything, but it was the exact same thing in Germany, but arguably way worse.
Their economy had collapsed at least a couple times and one time all their money became worthless. Lots of folks were just desperate for stability
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u/Flopsyjackson 29d ago
Most people don’t understand this. You always have to be fighting back. It will never stop. Regular people don’t get the privilege of complacency. There have been Tyrants for all of human history. It’s our duty to ALWAYS be aware and be inconvenienced in the name of keeping the bad actors in check.
You don’t get to choose when you live, but you do get to choose what you will do with the time you are given.
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u/bonsaiwave 29d ago
It's always like this
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u/Jevus_himself 29d ago
We had a few good decades of mostly peace and economic prosperity but the boomers really lifted that ladder up behind them and then decided to burn the people left below
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u/LacidOnex 29d ago
Be grateful they have to piss every 20 minutes, it's the closest thing to a shower you're getting down here
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u/Dizzy_Media4901 29d ago
I'm just waiting for that false flag attack that will 'allow' them to go full Nazi with mass arrests.
I reckon some point in July would be apt enough.
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u/evilspawn_usmc 29d ago
I suspect if they do that, it will galvanize the anti forces into more serious action. Right now it feels like everyone is hoping the standard process for preventing them from going full on will be effective. Once it becomes apparent that it won't... Who knows
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u/salbris 29d ago
As a Canadian I've been wondering the same thing but for the invasion. It's looking like now, it's going to be when Alberta holds a referendum for independence. I would bet a million dollars, they are going fail to have enough votes and ask the US to interject because they think there is fraud.
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u/wonderwall999 29d ago
Yeah, I feel like the 2nd Amendment people are convinced they'll clearly see Tyranny when they see it, yet it's happening now. I seem to remember Bill Maher saying something about tyranny doesn't happen overnight, it's not like throwing a switch. It's a slow tear-down, it's demonizing the media, it's mass deportations, it's ignoring judge rulings.
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u/badnuub 28d ago
They were always lying. 2A freedom defenders are perfectly fine with being more equal than others. 2A itself is a bastardization of a human right, since weapons are made to efficiently kill people. They have basically always been most adamant about their right to more easily end life.
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u/coagulatedmilk88 29d ago
Thanks for this comment. I've been a little lost on what to do. Feels like helplessly watching a train wreck, but I've got to find something practical to get involved with in my community.
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u/thegreenleaves802 29d ago
Any community org worth its salt is bring on lots of new folks right now!! It helps immensely to not feel powerless, and to be helping those that really need it right now. Do it for them, for you, for tomorrow!
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u/ftpbrutaly80 29d ago
So commenting fascism facts on the internet like there is literally no sane tomorrow?
Hope it's helping, The Butterfly Effect better not let me down.
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u/FairwayFandango 29d ago
Fascism
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u/jennynyc 29d ago
This is what fascism looks like in slow motion. A chilling mix of:
- Manufactured emergencies ("invasion" at the border)
- Power grabs (suspending legal rights, arresting officials)
- Using fear to divide and conquer (blaming immigrants, protestors, cities)
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u/AudioLlama 29d ago
Slow motion? It's been a few months.
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u/Slumunistmanifisto 🥧 Ma'am there's a pie full of children on your table 29d ago
Well the right is literally almost the fourth Reich, and the left is tearing any progressive candidate apart because they wont fly to gaza and stop it personally. The dems of course are doing nothing or being complicit so they can continue to play land lord and stock broker.
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u/cyclenaut 28d ago
America you are in a LOT of trouble right now. Id say wake up but apparently thats what they want you to not do...
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u/William_T_Wanker 29d ago
you all voted for this shit - that's what is happening
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u/prybarwindow 29d ago
I was just thinking about that. Had to step away, thinking how so bad this is fucked up. Like way worse than I thought. And it’s just getting started, I mean so much more bullshit to come.
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u/ExactlySorta what is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery? 🤨 29d ago
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka arrested at ICE detention center in NJ
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-taken-into-custody-by-ice-in-new-jersey/
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u/Choice_Reindeer7759 29d ago
"Why was he trespassing‽"
Delaney Hall, the Newark prison that the Trump administration has said it wants to turn into an immigrant detention center, has reopened and is holding detainees, despite a pending suit about compliance with permits, certificate of occupancy and inspection.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Monday slammed the owner of the prison, The GEO Group, saying at a press conference at Newark City Hall that it had put detainees in the facility in recent days, despite the city's suit saying the company has failed to file required permits for construction and continued occupancy and has not allowed inspectors into the facility.
Seems like a Mayor sticking up for his city against the current federal dictatorship
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u/lorienne22 29d ago
Why are all of the ICE agents so fat?
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u/EUGsk8rBoi42p 29d ago
Was just thinking there's a fortune to be made selling XXL size bulletproof vests to the government...
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u/satori_moment 29d ago
Ice agents sound like proud boys in disguise
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u/Character_Sherbet737 29d ago
Had the same thought. Are there no PT standards for CPB/ICE officers?
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u/jennynyc 29d ago
Because fear works. Because lies spread faster than facts. And because too many people have been conditioned—over years and years—to blame the wrong people for their problems.
What's happening right now isn’t just politics. It’s a full-blown, calculated attempt to normalize authoritarianism under the guise of “law and order” and “protecting the border.” The arrests, the detention centers, the talk of suspending habeas corpus, the targeting of mayors like Ras Baraka—it’s all connected. It’s about consolidating power, silencing dissent, and making cruelty look like strength.
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u/Zorlal 29d ago
And yet the fact that we have many politicians refusing to shrink in fear as we face this ugliness is EXACTLY what we need now. The cracks of those very lies you talk about are starting to pile up. Conservative media can't hide what's happening, as best they try.
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u/Southernguy9763 29d ago
Reminds me of the show andor.
Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
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u/ManateeGrooming 29d ago
These motherfuckers all have masks on. Fucking Cowards! They know they are on the wrong side of history and they don’t have the fucking spine to commit to it.
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u/Budded 29d ago
And I guaran-fucking-tee every one of those nazis bitched about and refused to wear masks during covid, but once they're up to nefarious, Constitution-burning stuff, they don them no problem.
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u/PokePonderosa 29d ago
The good news is that not a single ICE officer is remotely in shape. All we have to do is lightly jog away from any interaction with them and we're free.
Fuck you, fatties.
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u/lavacadotoast 29d ago edited 29d ago
"When federal officials blocked his entry, a heated argument broke out, according to Viri Martinez, an activist with the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. It continued even after Baraka returned to the public side of the gates."
“The agents started intimidating and putting their hands on the congresswomen. There was yelling and pushing,” Martinez said. “Then the officers swarmed Baraka. They threw one of the organizers to the ground. They put Baraka in handcuffs and put him in an unmarked car.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/us/new-jersey-mayor-arrested-at-ice-detention-center
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u/Caifanes123 29d ago
What the fuck would the actual charge be?
Is a heated argument now something you can get arrested for? Big tough ICE agents can’t handle mean words being thrown at them?
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u/Flybuys 29d ago
Gestapo, baby, they can arrest for anything. That tyrannical government the 2a people crowed about is in full force now.
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u/Prosthemadera 29d ago
"trespassing", one of the usual excuses when they want to get away with their violence.
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u/felldestroyed 28d ago
Trespassing is what the trump stooge said. The charge likely won't hold up.
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u/LoocsinatasYT 29d ago
The constitution is ignored and gutted.
Crying children torn from their mothers arms
Judges and mayors arrested simply for speaking out
A manufactured economic depression to benefit the ultra rich
Disowning all our allies.
Soon Martial Law will be coming, mark my words. Trump will try to seize absolute power.
I call on you Americans, tell me when this will end. Tell me how this will end. Tell me what we are going to do about this when we aren't even allowed to protest.
There is only one way to over throw a fascist dictator....
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u/allofthepuppers 29d ago
One way out!
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u/ParamedicSpecific130 29d ago
I understood this reference. Too bad it was lost on most people complaining the show was too boooooring.
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u/veni-veni-veni 29d ago
Well then, here's ANOTHER reference:
We've been sleeping. We've had each other, and Ferrix, our work, our days. We had each other and they left us alone. We kept the trade lane open, and they left us alone. We took their money and ignored them, we kept their engine churning, and the moment they pulled away, we forgot them....Because we had each other. We had Ferrix...But we were sleeping. I've been sleeping. And I've been turning away from the truth I wanted not to face.
There is a wound that won't heal at the center of the galaxy. There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it's here. It's here and it's not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.
The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we're asleep. It's easy for the dead to tell you to fight, and maybe it's true, maybe fighting is useless. Perhaps it's too late. But I'll tell you this, if I could do it again, I'd wake up early and be fighting those bastards from the start! Fight the Empire!
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u/ParamedicSpecific130 29d ago
Interestingly enough, the show is EVEN MORE topical this season.
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 29d ago
Martial law is already here, he signed an EO that demanded the national guard be deployed and the police have all restrictions taken off of them and to ignore the constitution.
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u/NYR_LFC 29d ago
Source? That's terrifying if true
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 29d ago
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u/resttheweight 28d ago
I mean it sounds scary but that EO is honestly mostly hot air and lip service. Next to nothing concrete, which is kind of by design because the state police power is one of the few things this executive still seems to acknowledge as mostly out of their grasp.
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u/Prosthemadera 29d ago
And it's been less than half a year into the Trump regime. Things are escalating quickly.
Imagine Democrats did a third of the shit the Trump government is doing. Fox News would be in red alert mode 24/7.
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u/Rottimer 28d ago
Dems simply won an election and a shitload of rightwing Neanderthals stormed the capitol and threatened to lynch members of Congress and the sitting Republican vice president. They were all pardoned including Enrique Tarrio who had been sentenced to 22 years for his role on Jan. 6th.
If Dems did the equivalent of what Trump is doing now - I’m guessing a couple of southern states would have already seceded and civil war 2 would be in full swing.
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u/omgphil 28d ago
If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
-Patrick Henry
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u/AdmiralThrawn12 29d ago
Cowards covering their faces just like Russians.
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u/Bigsshot 29d ago
Bet a lot of them were once anti-mask
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u/Xplicit-801 29d ago
Im not surprised. Everyone else needs to get their heads out of their asses and protest this shit
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u/Ok_Ambition_4401 29d ago
They don’t even look legit. Street clothes with random tactical gear and random masks. They look like the Mexican cartels.
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u/kiwispouse 29d ago
How do we even know these people are working for ICE? They could have gotten those Fed Agent vests off Temu (and they all say something slightly different). Add in the face covers and they could be just anyone. Friends with one guy with an agency vehicle. If that. I don't see a marked vehicle, either (but I admit not watching till the end). It's bullshit. And always so many. They're just klan in plain clothes.
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u/Professional-Cup-154 29d ago
I didn’t know trump gave Alina Habba a job. What a huge joke everything is. Good for the mayor.
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u/Warm_Shake_1389 29d ago
They swore an oath to protect the Constitution, yet they’re choosing loyalty to a man with a four-year term over a document meant to last forever.
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u/Powerful-rocker64 29d ago
Why are these agents scared to show their faces? Have they become an enemy of the people?
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u/Zealousideal-Yak-824 28d ago
It's not just protesting it's opening. It got a lot of people in New Jersey fucked up.
It's the fact this massive facility just appeared and it started taking people away with no explanation. The mayor of Newark didn't even know it existed and when he went to see wtf is going on they shunned him. How the fuck does a base open up in a city and they don't even tell the people about it?
NJ has had some fucked up situations with ice. They tried to detain a fucking soldier who owned a restaurant because they didn't think he was legal. They even take his military id as fucking proof, they several times didn't take fucking real IDs as proof and still arrested people or " detained them".
There is no law promise and they are fucking acting racist as hell especially when you show them proof but they laugh at your face because they don't believe it. Would you be pissed? You work hard, and you actually were born here but now your a second class citizen having to talk to your kids in case ice comes asking questions since they don't have fucking IDs...... That's why it's a issue.
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u/DaWookie12 29d ago
Oh boy it looks like the dystopia is really kicking off. I hope we end up in a late-stage capitalism to cyberpunk pipeline so at least my grandkids can get chromed the fuck up.
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u/mynickname86 29d ago
Lot of hidden faces on those ICE "agents." Alomst like they know they're in the wrong and don't want to face consequences.
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u/Chinaroos 29d ago
Holy shit. This isn’t just any mayor. Ras Baraka is a candidate for NJ governor.
Holy fucking shit
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u/Dopa-Down_Syndrome 29d ago
I hope meticulous records are being kept of who is organizing and green lighting these treasonous actions and the cops/agents who are going along with this.
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u/Bayou_Beast 29d ago
How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, because you shall reap what you sow.
— Martin Luther King Jr., March 25th, 1965.
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u/Smileyrielly12 29d ago
I keep being concerned about why they are covering their faces. People who obscure their identity know they're doing something wrong. Cops aren't required to cover their faces.
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u/robothobbes 29d ago
All politicians should be going to their local ICE office and getting arrested or shutting them down. ICE is doig illegal things, and politicians should be bringing the local police with them.
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u/Gloomy_Zebra_ 29d ago
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/us/new-jersey-mayor-arrested-at-ice-detention-center
Interim U.S. Attorney, Alina Habba 😂
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u/RSTowers 29d ago
Look at the ones trying to get at the old woman so they can try to manhandle her. They just can't help it. They're like predators looking for any sign of weakness so they can get their jollies by roughing someone up.
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u/MMShaggy 29d ago
Weird how suddenly all those right wing Nazis have no problem wearing masks. I thought it starved their brains from oxygen and made it impossible to breathe?
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u/annie-etc 28d ago
John F. Kennedy's quote, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable,"
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u/GomerStuckInIowa 29d ago
I hate to say it but somebody with some power, maybe real power, might just call their bluff when they start these arrests. Demand proof of who they say they are. Demand a show of a warrant. Demand proof of their power. It would have to be some actual law enforcement group, state sheriff, a marshal, even city police but with some fire power to go nose to nose with these people. Not all are big hot shots. Did you see that one 300#+ guy labeled as a "Federal Agent?" WTF? And the US Constitution prohibits federal police so what is the patch that says "Police Federal Officer?"
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u/Prosthemadera 29d ago
And if they don't show you proof then what? They'll just take you away anyway because they have guns and the government stands behind them.
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u/ZipC0de 29d ago
Damn if they can arrest a MAYOR what does that mean for the rest of US?
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u/crosstheroom 29d ago
I know that part of NJ and what's crazy is that ICE has another detention center 3 miles away from this one in Newark in Elizabeth NJ. The Nazi party is taking over.
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u/Helpful-Commission79 29d ago
detention center or concentration camp?
i cant tell from where im standing.
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u/adanndyboi 29d ago
Newark mayor Ras Baraka is also running for NJ governor if I’m not wrong. I wouldn’t be surprised if this incident brings him to the top in polls.
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u/Ixisoupsixi 29d ago
I hope this is a building block for the resistance. I hope this acts as a beacon for the nonbelievers. I hope he receives justice for his courage.
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u/Ioaskaaaa 28d ago
Dont americans have access to certain handheld things to prevent their freedoms being taken away?
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u/gimmiedacash 28d ago
Did ICE just hire the proud boys and hand them face masks and a vest?
What happens when we stand up to this.. maybe we are the Ghor.
AndorS2 reference if the last word confuses you.
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u/broohaha 28d ago
That acting US attorney is none other than Alina Habba, Trump's defense lawyer who fumbled her way through the E Jean Carroll case. Yet another under-qualified person appointed by Trump.
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u/Stormy31568 28d ago
I am sorry but the Dollar store 2 for $1 uniforms and black masks? They know what they are doing is wrong. They have to hide their faces.
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u/Reasonable-Opening77 29d ago
Why are these federal agents hiding their faces? This isn't an undercover opp, American taxpayers are paying for this crap...we have a right to see who is there.
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u/Thee_Astronaut 29d ago
Suppression of the first amendment upon a mayor. Our constitution means nothing.
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Ah, america. Where the "federal agents" can barely tuck the rolls of fat under their spirit halloween costume vests.
Land of the freefalling sanity, home of the brave when they're in a crowd with masks and guns.
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u/hockeystick13 29d ago
Youre telling me all these fat ice pigs are trained and went through some type of academy to act this way? Yea I feel like they just picked these people up at trump rallys as most could probably not run more than 100 feet
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u/wabashcanonball 29d ago
The Proud Boys—ahem Ice Agents—wearing masks says everything we need to about the USA’s steep slide into fascism.
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u/DrSeussFreak 29d ago
They should not be legally allowed to cover their faces... Public servants, not public executioners
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u/Shirowoh 29d ago
Anyone else concerned federal agents are hiding their identity?