Oh my nobody could have seen this coming. (Sarcasm)
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People were calling it from day 1. I'm surprised it took this long for the FBI to come out with a statement... although...
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states,
I'd need to see some exceptionally compelling evidence to be convinced they weren't actually just ICE officers doing this.
And later in the story...
A senior ICE official tells WIRED: “Anyone caught impersonating themselves as a federal immigration agent will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Impersonating a federal immigration officer endangers public safety and erodes trust in law enforcement.”
Only the bootliquors still have any trust remaining. Fucking trust. Lol
I worry that they'll claim wearing a mask is "impersonating a federal immigration officer", especially when it's bad enough the protests happen in earnest.
We've reached a point where lawlessness is being championed by both the law and criminals. Add to that we have elected a felon/pedophile president. What a time to be alive - sigh.
Organized gangs finally had their lightbulb moment?
Well, that assumes “organized gang” and “ICE” are mutually exclusive….
They’re actually just taking their cue from the biggest gang
Don't trash "organized gangs", they're better at what they do than ICE
In Cyberpunk, the NCPD is basically just another gang. More organized than the Valentinos or Tiger Claws, but pretty much the same by the end of the day.
In real life though, ICE seems to be a lot like a gang too. Have they pivoted to drugs and violent extortion yet? You know, if you smuggle guns and slaves, you can make a lot of money?
There's no way ICE hasn't been involved in illegal drug smuggling for decades. It doesn't work without corrupt people in those kinds of positions. DEA and CBP as well.
And agents who don't do this, or do other illegal acts should be dealt with. Right? Hello?
Like we’ve been saying this whole time!
Ice are criminals
Some of them are probably real ICE.
Plausible deniability.
Reports of a masked ICE Agent murdering an individual filming an ICE raid, then fleeing the scene. "That wasn't an actual ICE agent. Don't worry, it's... 'under investigation' and we'll never release any information about the incident ever again."
Ice is sexually assaulting people.
Let them prove they aren’t.
I always thought protesters should wear jeans or tan tactical pants, boots, vest and plate ($35-50 from Amazon), a tacticool utility belt ($20-30 from amazon), helmet ($30 from amazon) a black Balaclava Ski Mask ($6), with sunglasses. On the right chest have a random ID number like "A462". Slap an American flag patch (or a Police gang patch with the blue line).
You could even throw in a functional gas mask for $50
These ICE creeps don't have a proper issued uniform. They bought their shit off amazon as well. I saw one dude who looked like he was wearing airsoft/paintball stuff.
Can you imagine the confusion if everyone dressed in tacticool? Those untrained ICE idiots would be completely lost.
Yeah, as everyone knew would happen when the cowards began hiding their identities and acting like a secret police on amfetamins.
Oh, oh, I know! How about they release an app, or a website, where we can take a picture of the face of any of these Agents, and it will confirm if they're actually one or not.
On a serious note, it would be very useful to have a better system of confirming who is an actual agent or not. Something like plugging their badge number into a website and they have to confirm a daily code or similar.
hah they're not going to ID themselves. these cowards can't even do their "jobs" without covering their faces because they're so scared.
"Warns" "urges" Yeah that'll do ot
So we're allowed to shoot them in self defense now if they don't ID?
Yes, and I am shocked this hasn't already happened.
This just tells me that the "real" ICE agents, are doing criminal stuff and the FBI are just getting in front of that. What did they think would happen when you give the otherwise unemployable a badge and a gun, and empower them?
Lol, gee I never saw this coming....
At this rate someone's going to feel legally justified to defend themselves and others with lethal force from potential criminals.
Criminals posing as Ice... Seems like Ice is covering for their own crimes they are committing
"Criminals warn of criminals posing as criminals. Urges criminals to incriminate themselves."
Wow, what a great idea.
The majority of ICE then
Well, that's all very cool.
How about ICE stop wearing those goddamned masks so they can be identified?
But then Nana will know they raised a little failure of a fasciat and their immigrant wives won't make them pancakes.
The FBI only put a bulletin warning that masked individuals might be pretending to be government agents, just now? After nine months of terrorism? How is this not seen as authoritarian move? This is like with any full blown authoritarian states where the dear leader says something vague tantamount to directing a purge. And when enough people were purged, the dear leader would then say that his goons had gone too far from his original intent and order them to stop. This is not the first time America did something similar; the red scare and the McCarthy's communist witch hunts went on long enough to tarnish people's reputation, before Harry Truman made a speech calling out what is happening as unfair to people whose reputations were ruined. The powers-that-be know what the heck their doing and the last minute "call to sanity" is to white wash their deliberate intentions.