c/politics · by silence7@slrpnk.net · 1y

Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims | ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify anonymity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/19/brad-lander-ice-assault-masking/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUwMzA1NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxNjg3OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTAzMDU2MDAsImp0aSI6IjkzZmYyMmUzLTU5MWMtNGQ3OC1hMmMwLWI4OTYwNmY0ODRkMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzA2LzE5L2JyYWQtbGFuZGVyLWljZS1hc3NhdWx0LW1hc2tpbmcvIn0.jI3RdkdeQ_BuOvl3vCMb275mxz0VICVSopkT2v71vjg

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The key thing is that they're just making up numbers to justify secret police attacking Americans and our elected representatives:

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spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Based on videos of how they do arrests, when ICE touches someone as part of an arrest they count is as assault on ICE. Like the politicians who are being charged with assault because ICE shoved them to the ground.

wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y

I wonder if some entrepreneuring judge could dismiss the assault charges with prejudice to get ICE to stop fucking pulling that bullshit

dmention7@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y

So they're not just cowardly fascists, they're cowardly lying fascists. 👍

Olhonestjim@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Those are rookie numbers.

redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

Because the two bros bullshitting the numbers fucked up trying to make it 420 and 69 was too low.