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The bystanders, two women, who questioned the ICE agents and stood between them and their target outside the general district court Tuesday also wore face masks. ICE says the pair will face federal obstruction charges.

“The U.S. Attorney’s Office intends to prosecute those individuals,” ICE said.

Brian McGinn, the spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia, had nothing to add.

"We cannot confirm or deny the existence of an ongoing investigation," he told The Daily Progress.

The two women appear to be volunteers with the Immigration Rapid Response Hotline, a public service promoted by several civil rights and immigrant support groups. A witness to the Tuesday raid told The Daily Progress that the hotline had been called when the ICE agents were spotted.

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[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 92 points 1 week ago (2 children)

someone's gonna do it one of these days

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not encouraging fedpostjng or anything, but they're seriously trying to push as hard as they can to the point of causing some killer blowback and they're just going strangelove-wow all the way down with the proverbial nuke that'll blow them right in the kisser 💋

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm worried that they're waiting for somebody to do something so they can go whole hog

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No doubt. That's the blowback part, starting a vicious cycle of ever escalating violence till something gives way.

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Normally I would assume the government would squash any uprising like a bug but things are so crazy and everything is stretched so thin, they're taking a bigger risk than they think in assuming it will break their way

[–] Des@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

I agree. they fucked up by alienating their own government and defunding and disrupting everything. they could have implemented an ironclad well oiled fascist machine by just not pushing the "break economy" button and leaving the administrative state alone for the duration of their crackdown

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

According to this website (thanks you capo dog), there's a minimum 6,000 active duty troops most continental us states (coastal states have a lot more), totallimg 1.1 millon troops

those leftie gun clubs I've seen photos of have like 20 members, and theyre not logistically set up to communicate with other groups. This does make it harder to squash if it pops off in many places at once, but I think the us&a will crush whatever tbh

one negative of having no conscription is reds dont have a presence in the armed forces

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That is part of the reason they got rid of conscription. During Vietnam, there were studies done that showed that a large number of officer death were likely 'friendly fire' incidents by conscripts. That and it got rid of the social pressure created by constant protests of conscription at home. As the empire begins to flail though, it wouldn't surprise me if they start to reintroduce the idea of mandatory service.

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait isn't that the Jakarta method

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

They are and they aren’t. If they’re anything like Guatemala’s paramilitaries then the individuals push so they can have an excuse to beat your ass. The leadership themselves aren’t quite as brazen and aren’t intentionally aiming for that but at the same time they’ll be looking the other way if things do reach that point and their grunts go wild.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 88 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t see why a witness to an in progress armed kidnapping by masked men who refuse to identify themselves wouldn’t be totally justified in shooting them graveyard dead in any of these “stand your ground” states.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because "stand your ground" has always meant "can shoot minorities of you are 'scared'".

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

if they're dressed all in black and wearing balaclavas, how's a reasonable law abiding citizen to know whether they're cops or minorities?

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

based on the person they're kidnapping, if you see a white person getting kidnapped by strangers in baklavas it's probably me.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Bit idea: standing trial for shooting ICE agents because you thought they were AUNTIEVAH trying to kidnap our patriots and take them away to Pizza Hut.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eventually they are going to pull some shit in someone's house and get Castle Doctorined.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Been telling my family about this and they've been scared shitless. I dont see why blasting these pigs to dust would be an issue.

You could even use a libertarian defense to get the right wingers creaming

[–] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

honkeys are a global minority

[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)

look, at this point, if they're gonna lock you up for even questioning what they're doing, the best thing to do is to just fucking shoot them shrug-outta-hecks

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

They're not going to like when they finally take everything away and we have nothing to lose

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Obstructing our extralegal activities is criminal behavior and you will be persecuted ... uh ... I mean prosecuted!

frothingfash pigmask-off

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

Identify ourselves? We don't need to do that

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago

Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war on Virginia’s college campuses in the past year have also worn masks to obscure their identities without prosecution.

the daILy ProGReSs everyone

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

Look folks, you gotta be careful. You have these things called Names and Addresses and if someone gets your Name and Address they can make your life hell. They can egg your house, light fireworks outside your home in the middle of the night, have your utilities turned off, prank phone call you at all hours, vandalize your vehicles, vandalize your home, I've even heard of people being swatted. And if they get a hold of your social security number? Fuuuck. Open up accounts in your name, rack up all sorts of debt, the possibilities are endless. It is very easy to ruin anyone's life with just a few bits of information and a willingness to get your hands dirty.

You gotta be careful.

[–] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

This is when we start playing roblox on sight because we love the game so much that we want to bring it into real life all the time everywhere

[–] miz@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago
[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

:minecraft: :pika-pickaxe: