During the anti-ICE protest THP, despite orders to not escalate from MPD, charged protesters and started grabbing/cursing at them.
MPD blocked the road and redirected traffic around the protest and did not engage during the event.
Sounds like by their logic we should have shot back and should have shot to kill. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yup. Every accusation is an admission. “She was charging at us with her car!”
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Proceeds to charge at protestors with their cars.
Yes.
Watching the video of those state troopers slowly antagonizing and running into protesters, made me remember this other post I saw over the weekend.
•We know that this administration often uses psychological threat and organized theatrics (in addition to just straight up violence and murder) to terrorize the American people. For example, on my way home last night, I literally watched three armed and uniformed national guard “patrolling” by just pacing back and forth on a ~50 feet (max) strip of sidewalk under a historic city landmark that’s attached to a neighborhood grocery store. Even though the building is on a corner at an intersection, they weren’t patrolling the building or the block. They had been stationed only on the little strip of sidewalk visible to one of the busiest streets in the city during rush hour. What else is the fucking purpose of putting on a little show like that?
•Apparently there are concerns about people opening fire on ICE/federal officers and being found innocent by claiming the same defense that the ICE officer who killed Renee Good used when he murdered her (not to mention some other questions I would really like to know, like: “why was his safety off?,” “why did he intentionally position himself in front of her vehicle,” and "why did he hold on to his cellphone to keep filming while he fired his gun with one hand?)
Considering all that, I have this “totally crazy hypothetical” question I know I cannot be the only one asking at this point, because more people know how to add 2+2 than this administration seems to give us credit for.
What do you think the chances are, that these officers were instructed to do this by higher ups, in the hopes it would provoke somebody into opening fire on one of them?
Almost certainly, somebody gave them the order to do this. Do you think the troopers following this particular order actually suspect there might be a reason why they’re being told to ignore Memphis police and do this on behalf of the federal task force, despite there allegedly being concerns at the very top about people legally and justifiably responding to this very action by opening fire on them?
To be clear, the majority of the federal task force “just following orders” are definitely sadistic shits on a power trip, but they’re also pretty fucking dumb. Keep in mind, the people at the top who are exploiting us, are exploiting all of us, even if the people doing their dirty work are still somehow too dumb to realize it. Have any of them picked up on the fact that the people sending them out to do this shit, don’t give a fuck what happens to them?
As the video points out, the people hitting protestors with their cars aren’t city police. They’re TN highway patrol (THP) and part of the federal taskforce. Memphis city police (MPD) were already blocking the road for the protestors so they could peacefully protest. There was literally no reason for THP to be doing this, unless they were told to do it by the people who know they will blindly follow their orders.
Nah they’re not being exploited they’re just temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
Fucking gullible morons.
You think the people driving those patrol cars get to be billionaires?
No, but they protect billionaires as if they may one day be one.
I was calling them morons, not you, friend
Stop, bestie! You’re making me blush ☺️
Please accept this token of my appreciation for our friendship as a gesture of goodwill and peace on earth
Lol right on
ACAB
Those are feds
Shitty cops are shitty cops no matter federal or state
Shitty cops are shitty cops, but in this case MPD was allowing protestors to peacefully protest and feds who are in their city to strip away their (and the entire city’s) autonomy on behalf of the state of TN and the federal government, were being shitty cops.
You don’t have to believe that, but the actual protestors do, so I feel like it’s important to mention
We are allowing MPD to arrest murderers. It’s not going well. Fuck a cop.
And the mpd went and arrested the feds?
Probably not. See the federal government is trying to antagonize people and escalate things into a civil war. So they’re doing that thing they usually reserve for other countries where they go in and invade and just start picking fights because they know the police department of a small blue city in a red state, run by a Trump loyalist, in one of the poorest parts of the country can’t really defend themselves against the entire U.S. federal government anymore than a small country could defend itself against the U.S. military. It’s a whole to do…
And that’s why “acab” because they are letting the feds wipe their ass with the law. Don’t fool yourself the local “blue city” cops are as bright red as the rest of ice.
Please don’t try to create my reality for me. Thnx ☺️
Those are traitors and terrorists
The police can run you over because they fearing of their life. They can also jump on front of your car and shoot you in the face because they fearing if their life.
Very much a “It’s coming right at us, Ned!” defense. Be fearful of everything, and your actions are wholly justified. That is, if you’re a cop.
Legally that is assault with a deadly weapon and attempted homicide.
He aimed for the man with his two ton missile that guided. He hit him. Wow.
If he pulled his piece (even unregistered) and uncorked a mag into the assailant it would have been 100% justified as self defense. (Unregistered weapons are legal self defense weapons. USA number one)
It would be a messy trial but the facts are on video
That driver steered a two ton vehicle (deadly weapon) into a pedestrian and touched them
The ONLY reason the pedestrian is alive is that the maniac who was willing to hit someone with their car was also “not trying to hurt him”
Are you gonna assume the man who steers a car into you and touches you with it isn’t trying to hurt you?
There is no reasonable person who would not fear for their life in that situation.
Act accordingly.
Well I guess if it’s legal for ice to kill Renee Good that way, it would obviously have to be legal for citizens to do it to federal task force members, right? Surely that would be the outcome in a federal court if anyone had fired. Not like the feds were hoping to antagonize protestors into firing guns at (bullet proof?) glass to make a case for them.
US were always a police state - most Mericans just didn’t know about it before now. Colored and unwanted have known for ever, and every nation/people that stood in the way of US interests, have been met with maximum violence. Quantitatively, US is the most anti-democratic, anti-freedom regime ever to exist. Qualitatively, I’m sure US also had a hand in promoting them at some point…
Take the nastiest dominant ICE behavior and spread it out over the globe, and we can start getting a sense of what Merica have done, and why other people/nations around the world hates the violent Mericans (+ EU and the other US colonized nations) and their sickening values.
True fax
Do you think the federal government is directing officers to use their vehicles to intentionally threaten protestors because they’re hoping somebody will fire on federal officers?
