Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’ It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations acros…

  • FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    How many videos are there floating around of ICE just rolling up and discharging nonleathal weapons on protestors? They enjoy hurting protestors. That’s why they signed up. I feel like it’s not much longer before we start hurting back.

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        5 days ago

        They can still kill with them and maim like any other weapon.

        The ICE thugs see that as a challenge.

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      Every day I wake up and I’m shocked that it hasn’t already happened. I’ve said it before and I will say it again; I am genuinely baffled that people in masks with no badges can walk up onto people’s private property waving guns and not get immediately shot in this country. The only thing that I can really figure out is that all the trigger happy people are in ICE.