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At one point, Miller told the assembled local police officers, “I see the guns and badges in this room. You are unleashed. The handcuffs you’re carrying, they’re not on you anymore, they’re on the criminals. And whatever you need to get it done, we’re gonna get it done.”

The 40-year-old stated that they had deployed over 13 government agencies, including the FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, and the Department of Defense, which Hegseth has since rebranded as the “Department of War.”

“The gangbangers that you deal with, they think that they’re ruthless, they have no idea how ruthless we are,” Miller added.

“They think they’re tough, they have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are, and we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”

At the Wednesday appearance, Hegseth thanked the assembled Memphis law officers for working in dangerous places “where politicians spend a lot of time second guessing... the impossible decisions that you have to make that they will never understand.”

Hegseth, Bondi and Miller spent around an hour in the Shelby County Office of Preparedness and left via the rear entrance, according to WREG TV.

Bondi said on X that 53 arrests had been made and 20 illegal firearms seized in the first two days of the Memphis Safe Task Force.

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[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 16 hours ago

This guy needs his ass kicked. Just a straight up ass kicking to teach him some humility.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

Before colorization

[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

muh smol gubmint and states rites

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Temu Nosferatu Putin

[–] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Remember the time this fuck sprayed hair on his head

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

From RONCO, for confidence!

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

What a sexual matador.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Missed the skinhead dress code memo.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 26 points 1 day ago

This dude was bullied by his own lunch money in school.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 195 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are

This bald Nazi wannabe talks big, but I bet he would collapse on his knees and cry for mommy if he found himself being mugged in an alleyway.

What the fuck is wrong with this psycho? Was he bullied at school or something?

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

Every day he leaves his home feeling safe is a day Americans have failed

[–] teft@piefed.social 111 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He almost cried and ended up shouting like a child when a reporter confronted him on if he believed Maduro’s crime stats.

He will definitely cry if he’s mugged.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 99 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I keep that link bookmarked.

It's a gem.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's amazing that he refers to children being raped over and over again in that clip, and then says Trump will be elected to fix it.

He claimed Donald Trump, who is in the Epstein Files, will stop children being raped.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

And that "the Hispanic community will benefit the most" comment made me LOL!

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

God damn that reporter is a baller

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I wish every reporter was this good. And Stephen Miller with that Laken Riley martyr shit, Jesus fucking Christ. None of these fucking ghouls give a shit about her or the "children" that skid mark Miller is going on about.

[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago

Wow. I have SO much respect for that reporter. EVERY reporter should take a lesson from him. Thank you for sharing.

[–] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 17 points 1 day ago

He has interviews from the first term where he is clearly all coked up and shouting over the interviewers and accusing them. Reporters need to cut them off when they shout over them and abuse them on camera.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 13 points 1 day ago

He literally turned red and broke a sweat.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

So much “think of the children” bullshit from this bunch of pedophiles.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Magical. Thanks for sharing. If only the rest of the media was this dogged.

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

More of the video - https://www.mediaite.com/online/fired-abc-news-reporter-terry-moran-takes-victory-lap-over-viral-clip-of-trump-deputy-stephen-miller-defending-torture/

When he does his vampire (?) thing? WTF. Maybe if we only had a cure for baldness and he was given an audience for his singing, maybe this dude would not have so much hate in his heart.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

What a piece of shit! Couldn't make it through the whole article...

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I bet he feels uncomfortable anytime he walks the city streets. Probably much more at home in the sewers

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He doesn’t understand how the game is played.

You’re supposed to pretend to help people while actually oppressing them.

Saying the quiet part out loud gives the game away.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago

[Miller] "They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”

"They" live in a city of over 600,000 people in a nation that hates you, with access to hundreds of millions of firearms. YOU'VE got your adorable little 50 arrests, 20 confiscated firearms and a steady supply of "let's kill em all bullsh*t" You haven't thought this through.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This dude is only 40? That's a rough 40! Im older than him, and my stress is huge, yet I look 20 years younger than him.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fascism ages you like nothing else

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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 93 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

“The gangbangers that you deal with, they think that they’re ruthless, they have no idea how ruthless we are,” Miller added.

“They think they’re tough, they have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are, and we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”

This reads like edgy fan fiction. Like, I would fully expect to hear this exact dialogue coming from Shadow the Hedgehog in some weird cop AU

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 days ago (20 children)

They are harassing and intimidating the entire city for no fucking reason other than to harass and intimidate.

From the Memphis subreddit tonight: They are pulling EVERYONE over looking for warrants. Get yo 💩right

Can the helicopters please stop circling?! I do not feel safer…

Not only warrents...this is an opportunity to visually search your car. If the interior of your car is a dumpster...clean it and vacume it. A clean car reflects on the driver, plus gives John Law less time in your car. This action isn't about curtailing crime as much as intimadating lawful citizens into submission. For many it's going to be a test. Is standing up for your rights worth a night in jail.

The helicopters are definitely being using as a means to intimidate large portions of the population at once.

Saw armored trucks, black vans, and so many state troopers. 6-7 people pulled over

This is not normal. This is rising fascism at work. Do not forget that.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm in my positive future phase today, so I'm imagining how people like Peter Thiel, pretty old by then, reminisce about the biggest mistakes of their lives past:

"So yeah, at first we thought it was a genius idea - my idea btw - to put raving media pundits in positions of power. Who could've foreseen it would all end like that."

Maybe even with a nostalgic tear for long-diseased Uncle Donny, everybody loved him, he wasn't even the worst of the monsters now, was he.

[–] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

We're definitely in the "Oops! All Joffrey's" chapter of America's game of thrones.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And in their haste to prove how "hard core" they really are, some jackass with the task force has already managed to roll his vehicle on top of another vehicle that was just sitting at a red light, and put some poor kid in the hospital.

I hope he sues the state and federal government.

Unmarked car involved in crash, ends up on top of vehicle in Frayser, witnesses say

Witnesses told WREG Wednesday evening that the unmarked vehicle was chasing the other car when it was hit going through an intersection at Frayser Boulevard and Watkins Street.

The unmarked vehicle had its blue lights on but did not have sirens on when it entered the intersection, witnesses said.

Who needs sirens during a chase? People should just expect you to come barrelling through an intersection any moment.

Witnesses said that the woman driving down Watkins Street collided with an unmarked vehicle that was chasing another car on Frayser Boulevard.

A witness reported that the collision caused the unmarked car to become airborne and land on top of another vehicle at a red light.

This is so fucking dumb and infuriating. Straight out of Idiocracy. Day 2 and you've already almost killed someone's child who happened to be in the way of your airborne vehicle.

“And let me be very clear. I am a career prosecutor. If you touch a law enforcement officer, it is a crime and you are going to jail. We are arresting anyone who touches any of you,” said Bondi.

Honesty expecting Bondi to claim that kid was with antifa.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

53 arrests in 2 fucking days? For what?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Existing While Black or Brown.

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