Chicago Pastor Sues Trump Admin After Allegedly Being Shot by ICE Agents

A Chicago pastor injured during demonstrations outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility has joined a sweeping federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s response to protests in the city.

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[–] 34 points 1 year ago (9 children)

...hmmm, seems this person, Pastor, was hit by something...not allegedly, it is who hit him that is alleged, like the fuckers with clear markings as I.C.E. agents...this 'alleged' shit carries far too much for fascists in the current media landscape..

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Well, you can buy ICE gear off Amazon very cheap... So who knows

    Almost like they might have to name names and release records in a lawsuit...

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    ...eat shit, you fucker...don't both sides this shit with me...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Think it through. What are the headlines? How does the court case play out?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    By just asking questions, I'm making a point, as are all people just asking questions

    This is bad for ICE either way. My spin makes it worse.

    ICE shooting people will make "orderly" people nervous, ICE impostors shooting people will make them freak out

    In a court case, discovery would include records of who was where - ICE would have to unmask the shooter or admit there's impostors running around. Both of these things would be very bad for ICE

    What's worse, that ICE employed a known far right extremist who shot someone, or that the ICE agents running around might not even be ICE?

    Both. The belief that both of those things are true is the message, and ICE can clear it up by picking their poison, which will add a new wave of fuel to the fire

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The 'ole "respect my religion" mob when the religion gets in the way of being a cunt.

    As with everything else they hide behind to excuse being a cunt, it doesn't take much for them to abandon it if it means they have to stop being a cunt for even a second.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    Dude missed the first shot, and the second shot hit the roof instead.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    These guys would shit their britches and cry to mommy if someone shot back.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    *when

    It's only a matter of time.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The problem is if nobody fight back they incrementally increase stamping down on rights. If people fight back with force, they use it as an excuse to increase force.

    Fascists, man. They're shitheels.

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    [–] 60 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] [S] 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    probably backed up by some chickens in choppers.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    there've been helicopters overhead here for weeks. it really sucks

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Jesus Christ people! .... wear safety glasses .... that shot hit the top of his head, a couple inches lower and it would have hit his eye ... and all this was just random. The shooter just off handedly pointed the gun at the pastor and the pastor was just moving around .... if both shot and person had lined up perfectly by chance, the pastor would have lost an eye.

    If one of those non-lethal rounds hits you square in the eye ... there's a high chance you'll lose that eye. It also looks a 'pepper round', a small ball that breaks, explodes and releases irritant pepper. If that ball hits your eye, it damages your eye and now you have irritant pepper stuff in there.

    Don't just look for regular safety glasses - you need high impact resistant safety glasses (if you get just any old regular safety glasses, they won't protect your eyes) .... get ones with the following rating

    Z87+ ANSI Certified for High Impact (noted the '+' sign ... it needs to be there for 'high impact' rating)

    This kind of glasses is meant for working around woodworking, steel or machinery equipment where you could have high velocity objects flying around ... here's a quick demo of what means ...

    https://youtu.be/LjvCkQEIf9Y

    This is all insane because I work in construction, building, shops, woodworking and machinery shops all my life. I'm no pro but I do know that every time you step into these places, owners and managers provide the most basic safety equipment because they don't want to be sued if anything happens .... and so many dangerous things can happen when you have high speed things spinning around that can throw metal, glass, wood or heavy plastic around like a shot gun blast.

    Yet, government and officials are willing to expose the general public to these same dangers without so much as a warning or explanation to people to let them know what could happen to them. Fuck this world is devolving fast.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Any brands that are reputable?

    Or inversely, are there brands that advertise that rating but aren't actually legitimate?

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Is this the anti-Christian violence I've been hearing so much about?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    What did they shoot him with? Looks like paintball or something. Wont kill you but that shit will rip your scalp apart.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    "less lethal" pepper ball, so yes effectively a spicy paintball. In the video of the arrest of a mayor you actually see one of these goons knock his hopper off and fumble with it for a sec

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's not "less than lethal", it's "less lethal"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, depending on the gun and what it's chrono'd at, that can absolutely fuck you up. Knowing that ICE isn't concerned with wasting air or causing bodily harm (and gets off on the cruelty), you know they've got everything cranked up to the max.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

    And remember, you dumbfuck young people of the USA... always remember...

    bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe
    wHy BoThEr VoTiNg LoL LOOOOOL

    Boy oh boy, you sure taught everyone a lesson... by sitting home in your lazy mediocre ass, diddling with your purity, then lovingly, distractedly sniffing your goddamned mediocre fingers of your blood-soaked hands.

    Vote for a woman?!!
    When PIGS FLY!!!
    I'd rather see goose-stepping tattooed rednecks marching down my street, than see a woman in the Oval Office!

    After a quarter of a century starting with baby bush, a fed-up world has finally lost all faith in you.
    CONGRATULATIONS. "Mission accomplished".

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So, what did Biden do about Donald’s insurrection? His blatant lawlessness?

    What did he do to prevent it from happening again?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Boy oh boy, you sure taught everyone a lesson... by sitting home in your lazy mediocre ass, diddling with your purity, then lovingly, distractedly sniffing your goddamned mediocre fingers of your blood-soaked hands.

    Oh shit, I thought you were describing Merrick Garland.

    Dog... MAGA has been telegraphing their moves for over a decade. When WE got the democrats and Biden into power, they sat on their asses and did zero work to mitigate or anticipate the Trumpist fascism that was hurdling towards them at 1000 miles an hour.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Who doesn't love a good strawman

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For months ahead of the election I saw people saying how bad Harris would be for the people of Gaza (obviously Trump is much, much worse for them, which I said at the time). They were saying to not vote, or to throw away your vote on non-viable 3rd-party candidates. Thank you assholes for the rigidity of your defiance. The rest of us live in the real world and know most things aren't blank and white...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I think more liberals need to be blamed for being non voters than any leftist. Afterall we're not achieving anything by blaming and there were 8 million people who voted for Biden who decided not to show up for Harris. That's more than everybody using lemmy so there's really no reason to continue this blame game.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    You can also commit injustice by doing nothing - Marcus Aurelius

    Tiny hands memes and outraged blogposts count as NOTHING.
    ICE did this sort of shit in 2017, and now you let it happen again on turbo and steroids.

    These goons let you know exactly what was on their agenda on January 6, 2021, and still you enabled them completely, as a treat, as a reward. Non-voters gave them the keys to the house, so they can shit on everyone's bed and kitchen, everywhere BUT the toilet.

    Of course, it's someone else that suffers, not the non-voting idiots sharing "sleepy Joe" memes and "Bernie would have won" comments.

    Someone else's young child gets thrown into a cage.
    Someone else get the rubber bullets in the face.

    But the non-voter sees how the horizon seems to be at the same distance in every direction... concludes that therefore he/she must be right at the center of the known universe! Such enlightenment. So special!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Very Christian of them

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Can we talk about the guy in scrubs pulling his shirt up? Bro is turning the other cheek. I'm not a believer, but I respect the shit out of that sort of commitment to empathy.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm not your whipping boy. You're fighting a made-up goblin in the center because you don't want to fight the real goblin on the right - you'd just rather bitch and blame. typical.

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