Fascist paramilitary crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work, then dragged her out and arrested her [10/10/2025, Chicago] (Article)

It's honestly astounding, as somebody that lives on the left coast, how many arguments I've had with people up here about this.

I think that they know how BIPOC have been treated, and much like homelessness, they want to ignore it and pretend it can never happen to them. The lie that white privilege renders you unassailable, is going to get shattered. We'll see how many of them rise to the occasion and how many bend the knee.

The mayor, the governor, the CPD, the local prosecutors and sheriffs… where the fuck are they?

All holed up in their offices and wishing like hell it'll be their turn to be able to do this sort of thing next.

For real. Bringing? Brought.

Next step is finding out what these 4 guns per citizen is about.

G dubz deep cuts

If I were this optimistic, I'd be the happiest motherfucker on earth.

Unless we show up and start fucking these people up, we're just going to be commenting on these videos until that's illegal and we get scared of that too.

Funny that you think the brownshirts will face any consequences. You mention Bush ironically, but he's the living example: a war criminal who never faced any consequences from his actions.

When this is all over, these fascist goons will face justice for their actions

I wish I shared your optimism of the future..

Didn't most Nazis also get off scot free or even get jobs in science or the government? Only 12 high profile ones didn't. Of the 100,000 arrested for US trials, 2500 were identified ad "major war criminals". 142 were convicted of a crime.

Not to mention US constant blocking of the prosecution of war criminals both within and outside.

Probably >99% of fascist goons will get off with zero consequences.

I was wondering about this.

Suppose there was a fair election in 2 years (I know, I know) and suppose the dems won... would they dismantle ICE and prosecute these scum?

Well, that needs to be amended. Yesterday.

That kind of damage would only occur in two ways...either they sideswiped her while changing lanes (which is exactly what the video shows them doing)...or she drove into them at an angle (which is not what the video shows).

Whether or not it was intentional, they cut her off. All she did was drive straight, in her own lane.

My list is longer but I got rate limited and I don’t wanna get banned for spam.

I use the tag feature of Voyager.

Point in fact, if the goal was calling out a conservative, this ayyyyy person has utterly failed.
My views are my own, but they are certainly not conservative.

I haven’t been keeping tabs on the situation since then and I’m definitely not above changing my opinion if I see that the facts have changed.

The facts haven't changed since then. This isn't an isolated incident. This has been going on regularly across the country. This is what ICE's role under trump has been since day 1. This was happening 2-3 months ago. The only thing that changed is that they recently ramped up their budget.

Thank you for your honest reply. If this was an isolated incident, why did the goons feel safe and justified immediately pointing live firearms at someone they already knew was innocent? And why did the people who hired them immediately double down with false statements about the incident that contradict reality? Perhaps the issue is systemic? Can you describe how the combination of the actions of these goons and their bosses later is “for US citizens” when there was literally no way for the goons to know the citizenship status of someone they just blatantly crashed their car into?

How would you know if people being detained have committed a crime when ICE and the government are not allowing those people due process? What happened to being 'presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?'

Fun fact: you can't sue CBP or ICE for civil rights violations. Federal law enforcement is immune from suit. The federal law established to let people sue individual state actors for civil rights violation in a federal court doesn't include federal actors.

42 USC §1983:

Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress...

Yes, clearly you have not been keeping tabs if you suggest it's an isolated incident. Spoiler: It's fucking not. And how the fuck have you not been paying attention?

You know that she can't sue ICE, no one can. The Supreme Court isn't even entertaining the idea of hearing if ICE is litigatable. Making them above the law. Literally the way things are the words of ICE, DHS, or BPS are taken as fact by courts without any investigation into the most outrageous of their claims. They've taken natural born citizens and disappeared them. You should really be paying attention.

Yep

Active class warfare zone

How is EVERYBODY but me able to hear audio? Every lemmy video is muted for me, and the option to unmute is greyed out....

Definitely one of the positives, but it shouldn’t even be happening. This video shouldn’t exist.

On the end of an air chisel.

Matrix has optional encryption and is difficult for non-tech savvy users to setup.

That puts them at the mercy of tech users, and without mandatory encryption it makes people much more vulnerable.

That said, I use Matrix myself, mainly to use WhatsApp without using WhatsApp. I also built a translation plugin to use an LLM for translating to any language in a natural tone, with audio voice transcriptions and auto-translations of my voice messages to the target language.

So I like Matrix but still would recommend Signal.

It could be a technical reason relating to Signal.

I wish I had a better answer than Signal for messaging, but it is the best we have right now. Most people who are security or tech familiar are very disconnected from what ordinary people can use or are willing to learn to use.

We need tech that has sensible defaults, low user complexity, and minimal new user friction. Right now, that's Signal.

Most tech I make these days doesn't even require an email. I generate keypairs behind the scenes instead and use QR codes to manage identity. After accessing the service, I then can escalate with unobtrusive notices (Provide your email to recover your account, etc). This auto-account pattern eliminates entry friction.

Of course, you need bot mitigation so a privilege escalation can be used as a user progressively explores more capabilities. The technical of this is a bit involved but the end-user experience is very low friction.

This gets a user invested (they can see content and actually interact with it), which then gives them a reason to progressively use more features.

Just theoretical right now but we'll see if it works for layman users. If someday people use it over Signal, then I'll know.

no, bcs you're all pussies that talk always the talk but never walk the walk.
An embarrassing display of weak cowards for the world to enjoy.
And boy, do I enjoy!

ICE? Salt?
Are we making margaritas?

You're doing the lords work.

Great collection. I'll keep my eye out for a repository these are being collected. At this rate, I hope the videos will be held in a neutral jurisdiction.

WW2 is a great historical point to keep in mind as they did bring many to justice years later.

I agree that hope we can do a better job tracking then they can. I was thinking more of being able to identify and charge them later though. Masks only do so much as there's other identifying characteristics. I'm guessing with time we'll be able to figure out who's who and who did what.

This is the other side of this tracking. https://icelist.is/

They can escalate with or without that tho.
They have escalated without that.

After their escalation folk can either do nothing/comply, peacefully protest, or riot.

Same with martial law. They can declare it if the riots are happening or not.
I don't think you can rely on 'what are they supposed to do & how they are supposed to do it' if they aren't & never have followed that logic/values.

ICE will escalate things when they are ready (they are still recruiting), regardless of that the folk is doing.

The USA is also testing the chain of command in military too.

I reluctantly agree

Ice has already been shooting people I read two articles in the last week where they shot innocent US citizens. They just assaulted, threatened to murder then kidnapped this woman. I was under the impression that the second amendment was the USA's whole thing. Does waiting until they send the tanks out makes any sense?

Do you think the discipline and training will improve in time?

I mean its possible to be disciplined, well trained asshole surely.

Legally. Already know the answer to the other one.

Yeah it's going to get worse for sure, as in violence, but I see the internal cracks in the MAGA base, and the general populace is getting pissed off enough to wake up and do something.

It was the DOD long after I left, so however you want to interpret that. :)

Let me clarify. At what point would The People defend such action rather than shun it

Not to mention as we've seen with the Charlie Kirk bs they'll use any violence whatsoever as justification for further escalation.