Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary with a voice like gravel, pins the blame squarely on ‘smears from Hollywood.’ Assaults on her ICE officers? Up 1,300 per cent nationwide. Vehicle attacks? A grotesque 3,200 per cent this year. Shattered glass.
The regime doesn’t need to wait for an excuse to escalate when they can just make one up.
I wish that were true! I want to see ICE agents get their asses kicked
And we know just how credible Trump administration spokesweasels are.
Almost as credible as International Business Times.
Irritable Bowel Times.
These are the same folks that claimed that Alex Pretti “attacked” ICE agents before they murdered him…so you can safely disregard anything they have to say.
If that percent is actually true, then those must be very small numbers. 1 attack to 13 attacks is a 1300% increase after all.
It isn’t even true. Apparently it’s about 25%.
So from 4 to 5, got it
I think I know a simple way to completely stop these assaults.
Encouraging stat, though i’m sure it is massively inflated by classifying things such as yelling at them as “assault.”
If one claims you gave him the side eye, it’s recorded as an assault.
They started including “dirty looks” in that assessment.
Read the article and this is 100% propaganda to make ICE sound like victims of violence that isn’t happening.
It’s really frustrating reading Lemmy commenters like, “America do something!” Like God damn! The news doesn’t want to report on all the work the millions of Americans have been doing to protect our streets because they’re paid by billionaires.
Those Lemmy commenters are CCP, Israel, Russia, or someone swooped up in their propaganda games. Shit is rampant. Doomers as far as the eye can see.
It’s all intended to promote learned helplessness. The end state that they want is a nihilistic fatalism: nothing can change, all politicians are the same, you can’t believe anything. The last thing they want is an engaged public.
People just want to make snarky comments about the second amendment because we’re not shooting ICE agents in the face. They don’t want to hear about the things our communities are actually doing.
My own community hasn’t been hit as hard as MN but we’ve got rapid response hotlines tracking ICE, getting people with cameras and signs on them at the blink of an eye, and resource support groups for the undocumented.
Apparently that counts as nothing to a bunch of people that probably haven’t lifted a finger against their own government despite the fact that fascism is almost certainly rising there too.
This is all true, however you should be preparing to start shooting ICE agents in the face too. Just make sure you do proper planning so that you have a good chance of getting away with it.
Absolutely no argument from me on that, but there is no getting away with it - once we start shooting back we’ve opened Pandora’s box. The government is dying for an excuse to get even worse.
I’m of the belief they’re going to get worse no matter what we do and they’re only getting a stronger foothold day by day.
It helps to imagine them as the “I am very smart” guy from that webcomic/meme template.
Embarrassing for the IB Times to fall for it so completely. Assaults are up 1300% because they changed the definition of “assault” to include filming or photographing an ICE agent. I simply do not care that they’re being silly-stringed in the street.
We have a “Pretti/Good” reason to fight back.
I’m missing the irony in this article.
Seems unlikely, but even if it were true, I think there are bigger problems in the world. Anyway, they pretty much are causing their own trouble. They should change tactics.
more lies.
