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    The Portland Police Bureau declined to review the protest footage and assess whether the federal officers’ use of force violated Oregon law because “It would be incredibly time-consuming,” spokesperson Mike Benner said in an email.

    What the absolute fuck. “Doing our job would be too time consuming so fuck that shit.”

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        Ppd coordinated with aspiring browshirt orgs around 2020. Proud boys, et al, informed them of movements of protesters and the police units.

        As reported in propublica, not just in portland either, we have accepted having rw extremists running our pd’s in our progressive cities without challenge.

        Now it will be tougher to get non corrupt leadership with the feds and party getting involved. Not that there was a reform pd leadership movement yet.

        We need non corrupt local officials to get non corrupt pd officials. The one chooses the other and the other can take down those officials 7 ways from sunday with all of their corrupt dealings.

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      After BLM protests, city voted to defund PPB. They said fine, we’re not going to donour jobs then. The city responded by increasing their salaries higher than before. They still don’t do their jobs, because why would they?

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    This shit has been going on since June, though the brutality seems to be ramping up. But over the summer they’ve shot people’s eyeballs with gas cannisters, beat unarmed protestors, tackled elderly people to the pavement, the list goes on.

    The elementary school next door had to move because of all the toxic gas they’ve been deploying. The residents who live in the apartment complex across the street aren’t so lucky. Check out ICEOutOfPortland on Instagram if you want to see what’s been going on. They’ve been posting video documentation from the front line since this started.

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    So far I’ve seen this same sort of report of federal agent escalation for here, also Chicago and Manhattan as I’ve scrolled various social media in the past few visits. That was without looking for the stories or a pattern.

    I wonder if they’ve been instructed to take it up a notch across the board.

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      Ice killed someone in Chicago. I saw that go by last week.

      Family of Mexican father fatally shot by ICE near Chicago 'wants justice to be done

      'With law enforcement releasing little information about the death of Silverio Villegas González, one advocate said they “have to stitch this together ourselves.”

      https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigrant-shot-dead-chicago-ice-villegas-gonzalez-family-answers-rcna231952

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        This article says security video footage shows one of the ICE agents shooting at the car as it was driving away from him.

        Security footage near the scene in Franklin Park, as reported by CBS News, shows two plainclothes agents approaching a silver sedan that had been blocked from moving by an unmarked SUV. The sedan eventually reverses away from the two agents, and the officer on the passenger side points his firearm at the vehicle.

        https://chicagoreader.com/news/ice-shooting-silverio-villegas-gonzalez-franklin-park/

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          Previously ICE chased someone in LA out on to a busy roadway where they were struck and killed by a third party driver, that’s the only other murder I know of they’ve committed during an attempted kidnapping this year. I believe there have also been multiple instances of people dying from what appear to be preventable illnesses and a lack of medical care in detention, but I don’t have exact numbers there (of course, with as much information as they conceal I don’t think anybody does yet).

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    I tried different browser but I keep getting this message

    Welp, turns out literally all I had to do was switch my VPN…

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      Given the obvious authoritarian tendencies of our President, before his 2nd term, I’d say the people are getting what they voted for.

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        I think an awful lot of people were duped when the press treated Trump’s disavowal of Project 2025 as if it was real

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          The media has been at best bumbling and at worst an active collaborator with the fascist takeover of America.

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            The media enabled Trump, just like they did over here with Brexit and the current idiots putting up flags everywhere. You just have to see who owns it to know why.

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    The response from the Portland PD is ridiculous, not having time to watch this video clip is the dumbest excuse possible. It’s basically them saying fuck you.

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    Maybe it’s time we join ICE and then we can doxx these assholes like they’re doxxing us. No law enforcement officer should be masked. Even a gas mask.

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    I’m sure everyone who was so up in arms about political violence earlier this week will be rushing to condemn this violent attack on free speech /s