This is assault. Plain and simple.
No law in existence gives someone the authority to do this. Does everyone get to do this now? Is a lady yelling at you? Chem spray to the face. Baby crying on a plane? Chem spray to the face. Politician giving a speech? Chem spray.
Qualified immunity doesn’t give them the authority but it gives them the de facto right.
That’s how they’ve acted for ages now. There examples of people being bound and sat in a row during arrest and a cop walking down the line spraying from 2020. Others from pipeline protests and back to occupy that I’ve heard of.
Once the they put on the riot gear they act like the blood-thirsty Nazis they are and ignore the legal protections of the protestors.
" Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms"
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
It’s worth mentioning that, while possibly true, the book is nonetheless a satire of militarism and fascism.
It absolutely is, sprinkled with some, sadly, hard truths about ourselves.
Well if you ignore all the times were two sides of the issue were acting in good faith with a goal of mutual benefit, but those don’t tend to blow up like issues caused by fascists.
And if you fight back after they assault you? Bullet to the face.
Does anyone know who this thug is and where he lives?
Asking for a friend.
We’re going medieval real fast.
We’re receding in civilization in a no short of spectacular way.
While I certainly expected a degree of collapse, I really didn’t see the oligarchy oppression coming. Us, peasants, are, in fact, dead weight considering we’re consuming too much resources. And we stand in the way of them being able to continue to accumulate and use the resources. AI will automated many things for them without having to deal with humans and their disadvantages.
Our best shot at hope is if we band together to protect ourselves from them.
The accumulation of resources by them is brutal and obscene, and they moved to the phase of annihilation.
This is disgraceful.
ICE is trying to incite a riot in order to justify having the army flatten Portland
ICE is trying to incite a riot in order to justify having the army flatten Portland
Or to justify bringing more military for law enforcement to normalize that and allow the president to declare martial law for political reasons. This is playing with fire. It’s hard to imagine a future president worse than Trump, but it’s possible, and citizens, local police, and possibly National Guard or military units could resist them militarily, and then we’re at civil war, which would be nightmare for everyone.
It’s another reason why it doesn’t make sense to organize and fight them out in the open.
We need to start thinking like revolutionaries if we actually want a revolution.
Most people are happy with their imaginary wealth actually, that’s why they aren’t joining you.
What a bunch of pussies. All dressed up in call of duty gear and can’t handle a girl talking to them so they have to spray her in the face.
Does this look like protecting our women?
What a bunch of pussies.
Don’t insult pussies like that. They’re made of sterner stuff. These guys are more like a gooey, smelly puddle of Santorum.
"If you want to be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.” – Betty White
Betty was a treasure, and I unabashedly enjoyed The Golden Girls.
I’m rewatching and it’s a wonderful show. Still holds up.
I have not seen it but my brother said he saw something with a person wearing an inflatable costume and not really doing anything and an ice guy decided to spray it the fan intake of the thing.
It was the Portland Frog. I saw a video of the spray; I hear the costume (inhabitant unknown) was back the next day.
EDIT: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOQu4zQqiOY
that is such a dick move knowing how those costumes work.
"Was just a little spicy, it’s okay I’m Mexican"🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Here’s the clip
What an asshole, there was absolutely no reason for this.
Thanks.
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Praise for the onsite protester/medics
Use ublockorigin, blocks but they cannot tell their site is blocked.
I use ddg, so this is *their baked in.
In a just society, this video alone would be enough for that officer to be arrested and if the feds wouldn’t couldn’t then the state would. But we don’t live in a just society and it’s fast turning into a fascists dictatorship
I hate to tell you this, but the federal government is already there.
The fascists caterpillar made it’s cocoon but it has finished it’s transformation yet.
Federal thug. These assholes are not officers. I’m pretty sure the forty and fifty something dough boys I’m seeing jogging up the road these days are getting ready to or have already joined ice. These assholes will get a gun in crowd of other assholes with guns and act bad ass but most of them look just a doughnut away from a stroke.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that ICE is hiring undocumented immigrants, for the same reason that everybody else does it.
No chance. One of the main reasons they are snatching everyone is that they get bonuses for doing it. They would hesitate to grab them.
WTF. Didn’t we decide that was way over the line like… 14 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper_spray_incident
The police took a very different lesson from that. Per the Wikipedia article you linked:
On September 19, 2012, the Yolo County District Attorney’s office, citing insufficient evidence, announced that it would not prosecute any of the police officers involved in the incident for illegal use of force.
Officer Pike got a payout for his own disability due to the consequences of him spraying students at UC Davis.
Not advocating for violence, but I’m continually surprised these people haven’t been lynched or something. Uvalde too.
14!? Jesus.
cops do that thing where they grab the back of the guys vest and drag them back when they know the guy up front is doing dumb shit. These asshats were being removed from a situation they were making worse even by cop standards and they still made the decision to assault an unarmed citizen because their feelings got hurt. Fucking pathetic
Whenever I see the back of the vest pull I can’t help but think of how my kin would just grab the back of by overalls and carry me when I was real little. Difference is I was a little shit and got in trouble on purpose to have it done, these dipshits are just too stupid
“Officer”? Wouldn’t they be more like enlistees?
Any cop, no matter how lowly, wants to be called “officer”
Stupid asshole bullies.
Terrorists.
They are literally terrorists terrorizing citizens by committing acts of violence on civilians and politicians to influence or coerce their political activity and behaviors.
Literally the fucking definition of terrorism
Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).
Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature
Source: the fucking FBI
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
Canadian definition
an act or omission, in or outside Canada,
(i) that is committed
(A) in whole or in part for a political, religious or ideological purpose, objective or cause, and
(B) in whole or in part with the intention of intimidating the public, or a segment of the public, with regard to its security, including its economic security, or compelling a person, a government or a domestic or an international organization to do or to refrain from doing any act, whether the public or the person, government or organization is inside or outside Canada, and
(ii) that intentionally
(A) causes death or serious bodily harm to a person by the use of violence,
(B) endangers a person’s life,
© causes a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or any segment of the public,
(D) causes substantial property damage, whether to public or private property, if causing such damage is likely to result in the conduct or harm referred to in any of clauses (A) to ©, or
(E) causes serious interference with or serious disruption of an essential service, facility or system, whether public or private, other than as a result of advocacy, protest, dissent or stoppage of work that is not intended to result in the conduct or harm referred to in any of clauses (A) to ©,
Saving for what will likely be me needing a lawyer in the future, lol
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Jackbooted thugs
Wtf is the chemical in the “chemical” spray?
Probably capsaicin
