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Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
Sun May 11, 2025, 07:34 AM May 11

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces...

Acyn
‪@acyn.bsky.social‬
AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.
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May 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM


AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-11T03:44:01.904Z
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Mike Nelson

(10,631 posts)
4. I have another...
Sun May 11, 2025, 08:11 AM
May 11

... point of view, and I'm not sure there is any law possible that will make them show their faces. I don't think the "masks" are mainly for preventing the spread of diseases. I think the masks show their task is shameful. Also, I wouldn't want, for example, their kids to have trouble in school. The focus should be on the shameful and sometimes lawless acts of Crooked Donald and his wretched Administration.

SheilaAnn

(10,429 posts)
6. The masks might help to conceal many familiar faces from Jan. 6 also. Hear no complaints of "can't find work" ....
Sun May 11, 2025, 09:27 AM
May 11

LiberalArkie

(18,451 posts)
9. Balaclava proved so effective in cold weather to preventing the public from identifying the police that it went all year
Sun May 11, 2025, 09:58 AM
May 11

Balaclavas are in certain contexts associated with criminality as gang members have used them to conceal their identity. In 2004, police in Prestwich, England, began demanding that people on the street remove their balaclavas, describing the garment as "extremely threatening". In 2008, police in Kent confiscated a copy of the War on Terror board game partly because of the inclusion of a balaclava, stating that it "could be used to conceal someone's identity or could be used in the course of a criminal act."

Abstractartist

(256 posts)
7. Vigilante mask pulling
Sun May 11, 2025, 09:36 AM
May 11

Surround, close in and pull off the mask. Someone be responsible for cellphone camera on the ready… snap, upload to anyplace you can with heading… “Is this your friend, co worker, son, brother… no he’s a nazi strong arm”

skydive forever

(496 posts)
12. You're right, they're not
Sun May 11, 2025, 10:23 AM
May 11

But they can not just touch, they can tackle, taze, beat, pepper spray, us? It's just not right.

LiberalArkie

(18,451 posts)
16. They are there to protect the land owners. Always has been the rule ever since medieval England.
Sun May 11, 2025, 12:23 PM
May 11

nuxvomica

(13,398 posts)
11. I suspect they can't show IDs because they don't have them
Sun May 11, 2025, 10:10 AM
May 11

They're hired members of Proud Boys or other right-wing gangs.

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