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So what are the chances these dudes couldn't wear masks during covid cause it made it too hard to breath?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Friendly reminder that it should be 100% illegal for law enforcement to wear masks and hide their identity.

We pay their salaries and they have ZERO accountability.

These are domestic terrorists.

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

State sponsored domestic terrorism

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 1 day ago

Correction: 4 masked terrorists.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Call swat on them.

"Hello police? There are armed masked men waiting next to a black unmarked van eyeballing women as they walk by. I'm afraid when I leave they are going to try to abduct someone.

No they aren't law enforcement"

If they don't get guns pointed at them then you will make 4 thugs waste most of their day and piss them off.

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[–] StonerCowboy@lemm.ee 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yea these guys don't look like law enforcement. They gonna get shot if its my turn cause these look like bad guys just kidnapping fools.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You know what, that probably would stand in court. "I saw some random dudes in masks attempting to kidnap a woman so I intervened."

If they wanna look like a some random thug they'll have to accept thug consequences.

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[–] kazaika@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Looks like the mafia

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Has anyone actually confirmed that those guys are actually ICE? Because they look like I could pretend to be ICE and get away with it.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 16 points 2 days ago

There are already reports that people are committing crimes disguised like this, and I'm starting to think that's part of the strategy.

They know they cheated to get into power, and they don't have nearly the support that they claim to have. They know they don't have enough trained manpower to suppress the national mob that will arise when the Tipping Point happens. By establishing that this is the "uniform" of their "Enforcers," ANYONE can align with them by embracing their ideology, no joining or training necessary.

Eventually, we will have volunteers joining them in their assaults on protesters, zip-tying their neighbors and dropping them off at the local ICE facility, and eventually just organizing their own little ICE Militias, and the government will be just fine with all of that.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 30 points 2 days ago

Just judging by the cover, my guess is that this album sucks.

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why have no gun carrying Americans shot these fools yet?

Just dress the same way they do

Jeans, some walmart sweaters, shitty face masks and cheap baseball caps.

Come on America, you've got this.

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"You see your honor, they were wearing ski masks, and I've been taught by Hollywood that a group of people wearing ski masks in the middle of the day with a black van means they are up to no good. So I took it to my own hands to shoot these motherfuckers down."

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago (16 children)

It's 2025. America. You see these men on the street.

If you assume they are going to rob a bank dial 911.

If you assume they are going to lynch someone dial 911.

If you assume they are going to kidnap someone dial 911.

If you assume they are law enforcement then get your eyes checked. They aren't wearing any identifying uniform, no insignia, no badges.

If you assume they are impersonating law enforcement then dial 911 and get your eyes checked.

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[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 348 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Wait, that's how they're actually dressed? They just look like random people. The fact that they don't get shot more speaks a lot about how well behaved the people they are kidnapping are.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 251 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think they look more like a bunch of thugs than normal people.

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[–] ssroxnak@lemmy.world 265 points 3 days ago (10 children)

There is absolutely no proof that these people are ICE, or any other agents of the state. Do not assume masked strangers throwing people in vehicles are law enforcement. Especially if they don't identify themselves.

We all need to stop making this assumption, and to start encouraging others to also not make this assumption.

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[–] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well. If there's nothing identifying them as an arm of the state, it's legal to shoot them in self defense should they try to kidnap you. You can also say that the law doesn't matter anymore as the US government is flagrantly violating it but that also means that the law no longer has legitimacy as the government is breaking it's end of the social contract. Therefore, normal morality in the absence of law applies which says that self defense is legitimate.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 190 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No badges, no uniforms, driving unmarked vehicles and wearing masks? Those are obviously kidnappers, Your Honor.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 82 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

"That's why my client acted reasonably and dare I say heroically, when they saw these masked men dragging the witness into an unmarked vehicle, drew their legally carried sidearm, and engaged these individuals until they were no longer a threat."

Why hasn't this happened yet?!

This country should never be safe for predators who want to throw people into vans.

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[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

Walmart out of white hoods?

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 275 points 3 days ago (7 children)

They wear masks for the same reason the Klansmen wore masks.

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[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 122 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not even remotely hyperbolic here, I 100% would assume they’re randos gang members or doing criminality attempting to kidnap then murder me, and I’d fight back accordingly. Not even a badge on a neck chain or belt clip jfc covered head to toe

Just the same as if a mugging becomes “get into the van” no you fucking shouldn’t because their goals are now no longer your property, but now your life

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Never let the assailant take you to the secondary location.

Urban self defense classes have been teaching this since the 1970s, at least.

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 2 days ago

If these people approached me I would shoot.

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These are most likely members of the proud boys not ice.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean... 2 things can be true. Why do u think he pardoned them?

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

So that they could act in an unofficial capacity to strike fear for his regime and serve as loyal little removed puppets.

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago (5 children)

These guys look like they're about to rob a bank.

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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

They look like random Grand Theft Auto enemies that you wipe out by the dozen.

[–] Trebuchet 7 points 2 days ago

Baton drawn, absolutely ready to start shit

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 30 points 2 days ago

4chan summer camp

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 167 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A handy guide to America:

Wearing a mask to prevent the spread of infection during a global pandemic? It's an excuse to hide your face, you literally cannot breate through it, and it's a symbol of leftist fascism.

Wearing a mask literally to hide your identity so you can physically accost and abduct anyone under the pretense of 'immigration authority' with zero need for due process so there are no repercussions when you are wrong? That's protecting your country.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 116 points 3 days ago (3 children)

They look like terrorists.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 77 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Well they are wearing masks and striking fear on a civilian population for a political agenda, so I think your terminology is textbook.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Look how wide that dude's stance is. Fucking loser. What a bunch of big tough guys with masks. Show your faces, and be proud of your actions removed.

Edit: It's giving:

[–] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Out of curiosity, is anyone allowed to dress up like that? What if everyone just decided to wear masks, camo pants, and hats?

They clearly don't have to identify themselves - why should we?

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[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 82 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Looks like four domestic terrorists.

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They know what they’re doing is wrong. And outside the law

They know if they are identified they will be dealt with. Outside the law.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

Everybody should always call the cops if they ever see this anywhere at anytime. That's insane.

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[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

bro.... even bank robbers wear stuff better.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 78 points 3 days ago (8 children)

How does anyone know they're ICE? what if six guys in masks showed up and threw these guys in an unmarked van and says THEY'RE ICE?

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 150 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Looks like a group of shady men wearing masks intended to hide their faces around an unmarked van threatening civilians with weapons to me. Call the police, maybe hyperbolize it a bit. Make them either abandon their spot or waste their time justifying their existence to the police instead of whatever bullshit they're there to do.

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[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

That's a lynching posse, and not a gathering of lawn enforcement officers.

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 135 points 3 days ago (4 children)

that’s actually a mob of criminals. you see these dbags you need to call 911, especially if you are not an immigrant.

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[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)

These are criminals. There's nothing to indicate that they are any type of law enforcement.

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 113 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Given what is currently happening in the US, I cannot help but ask myself: Does the police still respond when emergency calls come in reporting that several armed and masked men are dragging people into a van and kidnapping them?

That's a genuine question, and I don't know the answer. But hey, I don't know the answer to the question of how all this can be possible in a constitutional state either.

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[–] jimjam5@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

No badges, no name tags, no exposed faces… let’s see “ ICE “ try this in a state with strong self defense laws.

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Just being honest. If someone in mask comes to my car, I'm pulling away. If you are caught by a wheel, then it's on you. Identify who you are.

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