This was a mid-afternoon march with the Unions. It was peaceful and respectful until ICE got insecure and decided to be dicks about it. No warnings either.
State sponsored domestic terrorism.
https://old.reddit.com/comments/1qsljlw
My friend who attended said, “a daytime protest 5-10k strong organized by unions consisting of liberals, moms, teachers, nurses, and many many children and old people lead to a completely unprovoked onslaught of pepper bullet, flash bangs, and an absolutely astonishing amount of tear gas. It was terrifying, with that many people we were in serious danger of a stampede or being crushed. My eyes started to water and I got separated from my mom so I doubled back to find her, and suddenly the gas was so thick I couldn’t see at all, I felt like I was gonna shit my pants and throw up.”
Obviously law enforcement, apparently (according to other comments) federal - which would include ICE - did this.
One 5-10k person protest 😏
Five to ten 1k person protests spread out throughout the city 🥵
I’ve been wondering if it is time to buy a gas mask. Seems like it will need to be standard issue for protestors soon.
It probably is time for that, sad to say
Wow, what an unfortunately delightful article.
Leaf blowers
Just for the record, they aren’t really paramilitary. Security services that are militarized yes. Paramilitary will be like proudboys and 3 percenters and their ilk as they are tooled by the admin to persecute their opponents, critics, etc.
That last bit just described ICE tho
Just for the record, the proudboys, 3 percenters, etcetera are giving 47 days of training to join this non military arm of the regime.
A definition from merriam-webster.
This term paramilitary can take in a wide range of organizations, but is usually applied to forces formed by a government. Groups opposing a government, even when organized along military lines, are more often referred to as guerrillas or insurgents. In countries with weak central governments (such as, in recent times, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, or Congo), warlords may form their own paramilitary forces and take over all local police and military functions. Paramilitary often has a sinister sound today, since it’s also applied to groups of off-duty military or police personnel who carry out illegal violence, often at night, with the quiet support of a government.
And another definition from Encyclopædia Britannica,
group or organization that operates outside a country’s formal military structure. Paramilitaries are typically modeled after military organizations and may have similar training and equipment.
Both of those explanations back my interpretation up. I know you guys all call them that, it’s not accurate, just as is was not accurate for everyone to call Au Saun Su Kyi Myannamars “de facto” leader, she was the de jure leader, a leader in law not fact, not opposite that in the former.
Show me how ICE is part of the US military.
They’re specifically avoiding making them military to avoid UCMJ.
That’s who they’re hiring to fill out these positions though, proud boy’s and white supremacists
The issue is OP calling them “invaders,” when they were created 22 years ago to do this.
They were created to fire on peaceful protest marches?
Not the first time 🇺🇲 has done this.
