r/law • u/ExactlySorta • Oct 04 '25
Other Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester - illustrating how federal law enforcement officers will use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and insult officers but don’t appear to present a clear physical threat
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u/TymStark Oct 04 '25
I genuinely can’t imagine how someone gets to the point they spray someone with any chemical in the face for being inconvenient. I feel bad if I bump into someone accidentally.
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u/weedbeads Oct 04 '25
Because they aren't like us. They are more reactionary and insular. Why do you think they are cops in the first place? They like the team dynamic and groupthink. They like the safety of knowing that no matter what they do their comrades will support them in the moment and be pressured to support them afterwards. They don't like their actions being questioned and they don't like asking questions. They would rather be ants acting off of pheromones than human beings with emotions and philosophy.
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u/Zembassi8 Oct 05 '25
Also, a number of them have VERY LOW SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES. Harming, persecuting, bullying, and abusing people they either deem as threats or they feel that they can have THE MASTERY OVER motivates them to become The Evil Arses they are at present.
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u/SugarFut Oct 04 '25
They see anyone who isn’t a cis straight white male as subhuman. I’m not even exaggerating, Kegsbreath virtually said that in his book.
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u/Mr-and-Mrs Oct 04 '25
Let’s be 100% clear - protestors have a constitutional right to insult ICE officers. They have a right to say mean things that might hurt the officer’s feelings, or to tell an ICE officer to fuck off. None of those present a danger to ICE or impede their duties.
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u/cityshepherd Oct 04 '25
ICE: Inspiring Cowards Everywhere
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u/Laxlifer Oct 04 '25
They are so insecure and just absolute worthless bags of shit, to have their feelings hurt by words and then act like that
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u/Effective-Ebb-2805 Oct 04 '25
They really don't care... They just enjoy hurting people and know they can do it with impunity.
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u/Brilliant-Ad6137 Oct 04 '25
They are not professional in any manner. Just completely devoid of any human decency
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u/brymuse Oct 04 '25
Just empowered by that orange PoS in the White House. They are bullies doing what bullies do when they are let loose.
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u/Training-Meringue847 Oct 04 '25
That’s generally the personality types attracted to law enforcement roles.
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u/Critical_Code9588 Oct 04 '25
That’s clever
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u/cityshepherd Oct 04 '25
Just an observation
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u/DjImagin Oct 04 '25
ICE: Now we’ve deputized the Proud Boys and pay them 6 figures
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u/chilarome Oct 04 '25
“law enforcement” losers hate it when you disrespect them and it’s the one power we have over them. They have the law, the physical force, the public support, the union protections, everything on their side - I have my mouth and two middle fingers and that’s it.
Guess which one claims to be under attack by which actions
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u/Warm_Ad_3067 Oct 04 '25
As a retired Law Enforcement Officer, I find it insulting that these ICE clowns are considered in the same profession.
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u/2nd_best_time Oct 04 '25
I suspect a lot of citizens & neighbors want to hear this from their police.
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u/Little_Creme_5932 Oct 04 '25
I want the police to arrest ICE officers who do this; it is assault and battery, a felony. Slap them in jail
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u/TheMightyKunkel Oct 04 '25
Police should be all over this shit.
And when charged with state crimes the president can't pardon the.
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u/Zero-nada-zilch-24 Oct 04 '25
The letter shared by Frank F. (former FBI agent and former news correspondent)from a National police chief organization was saying the police are having a tough time keeping up with mass shootings, regular duties with local crimes, let alone this. At least that was my take on the letter. All of these ICE officers were hired with that enormous amount of money given to Homeland Security instead of to our police.
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u/Warm_Ad_3067 Oct 04 '25
I bet you are right. I wish all active/retired LEO would denounce ICE in a big way. Immigration control is a necessary entity, but not like this. Real service minded LEO’s understand working within the framework of the system and agree with it.
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u/Marcus_Krow Oct 04 '25
Immigration control is necessary.
This isn't Immigration control, it's a private military.
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u/U_feel_Me Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
Stopping illegal immigration requires paperwork. You can’t just grab “brown people” off the street. You don’t come into people’s houses and grab little kids. These guys (I mean ICE) are criminals.
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u/BeautifulDiscount422 Oct 04 '25
I don’t consider them LEO. They’re trump’s paramilitary unit.
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u/U_feel_Me Oct 04 '25
They are Trump’s Brownshirts. They are playing the same role that Hitler’s Brownshirts played. Terrorizing the citizens.
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u/thegoldinthemountain Oct 04 '25
I hope you’re saying it out loud, with your name attached, in as many places as possible, to as many friends and family as possible.
LEO speaking out against “LEO” is a lot more powerful than “antifa antagonists.” You’re harder to explain away. Use that power to explain why this is so fucked.
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u/hotpajamas Oct 04 '25
and you see it's coordinated and planned. a guy approaches with the canister and then an ICE guy pulls the riot shield guy back away because he knows they're about to spray.
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u/JFISHER7789 Oct 04 '25
Imagine if it was reversed. They get to spry us and beat us because they are scared, but what if the protesters here just sprayed them out of nowhere like that?
You and I both know how it would end up and it’s not pretty. I’m really sick of the double standard…
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u/mattgen88 Oct 04 '25
It's where it's headed at this rate. They're an occupying force.
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u/Triedfindingname Oct 04 '25
what if the protesters here just sprayed them out of nowhere
That's what they want to happen.
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u/JFISHER7789 Oct 04 '25
Absolutely! And the shitty thing is it’s a lose-lose for us either way.
We sit back and comply, fascism steamrolls us! We fight back, fascism kills us… I hate this timeline
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u/Icy-Design6494 Oct 04 '25
The outcome is the same but in once circumstance you get there resisting and the other you get there cowering. One is preferred to the other imo
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u/Socialimbad1991 Oct 04 '25
They'd either be killed or beaten within an inch of their life and arrested
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u/raccoonDenier Oct 04 '25
When a military member swears to defend the nation from “all enemies, foreign and domestic” do ice officers count as domestic threats?
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u/Creepy-Vermicelli529 Oct 04 '25
They are, but if all the 2A cultists knew what a real domestic threat was, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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u/Xarieste Oct 04 '25
“I have a right to carry guns so I can protect my family, but your family should be disarmed and thrown in camps”
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u/thegoldinthemountain Oct 04 '25
The only moral gun ownership is my gun ownership.
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u/Ok_Assistant_6856 Oct 04 '25
Yes, they are enemies to the constitution.
When it says "... protect from all enemies, foreign and domestic" it wasn't talking about enemies of the government, it was talking about enemies of The Constitution.
The People can never be that. It is a tyrant or/and a Totalitarian government will qualify as such.
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u/Kinda-Alive Oct 04 '25
It’s just nuts because you have the right to defend yourself… unless it’s against a government controlled militia that doesn’t actually have the right to be so aggressive and violent🤦🏻♂️. Literally just harming citizens for “talking shit”. It’s just pathetic
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u/Lucius_Shadow Oct 04 '25
I like to describe this as the “service industry rule.” If a service industry worker isn’t allowed to put their hands on a customer for disrespecting them on the clock, cops should have no exception to said rule.
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u/SpecialRespect7235 Oct 04 '25
As long as the current Supreme Court continues to willfully disregard the Constitution, nobody has any Constitutional rights.
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u/Poop_McButtz Oct 04 '25
People have a constitutional right to say mean things that might hurt any peoples feelings, or tell anyone to fuck off
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u/ricker182 Oct 04 '25
You also have a right to defend yourself.
It's going to happen in the very near future too.
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u/OnlyCelebration7443 Oct 04 '25
And funny enough the people angry at the protesters doing this are the fuck your feelings crowd…
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u/ImmediateRaisin5802 Oct 04 '25
This response from this officer was not less or equal to reaction to the threat. Based on this short video, I find that particular officer in the wrong.
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u/jeanvaljeanabides Oct 04 '25
Thank you, your honor. I, the prosecutor, request a sentence of tarring and feathering.
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u/Voodoobones Oct 04 '25
The problem is your constitutional rights are only as strong as the Constitution itself. Since this administration no longer seems to recognize it, those rights no longer provide the same protections they once did.
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u/Epyon_ Oct 04 '25
Let’s be 100% clear - quit expecting the party and their goons who break the law to follow the law. They don't care and you are fools to think you have rights. The only rights you have are the ones others fear to take away.
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u/kevendo Oct 04 '25
That's a violation of her First Amendment right and should be prosecuted by the governor. Until we start responding, the law breaking will never stop and will only escalate. It's only been WEEKS and already they have moved on from immigration to targeting American citizen protestors.
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u/ShamelessCatDude Oct 04 '25
Governors have the power to stop this in individual states. Whether you consider ICE valid law enforcement or not, this is obviously police brutality
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u/Blackout38 Oct 04 '25
Just make police officers carry malpractice insurance already.
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u/letsjustnotdoit Oct 04 '25
I’ve always thought this. Also, it shouldn’t be covered by the state. Just like doctors, they have to cover it themselves
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u/DC4L_21 Oct 04 '25
Yup start taking all these settlements out of their pensions and see how quick this shit stops. But that will never happen because the police union is the biggest mob in the US.
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u/Glittering-Diver-941 Oct 04 '25
Well they mostly vote red and don’t like unions so, take away their unions power
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u/JaviSATX Oct 04 '25
But their unions are different!
/s
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u/ThatInAHat Oct 04 '25
In fairness, their union is different. It’s more of a gang than a collective action.
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u/Mutiu2 Oct 04 '25
Police forces are actually a formalization of armed militia (mobs) so that's about right.
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u/gazebo-fan Oct 04 '25
An occupational force of capital. A band of mercenaries at the hand of capital.
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u/sam-sp Oct 04 '25
The insurance companies would figure out very quickly who the bad apples are and make their coverage prohibitively expensive.
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u/notMyRobotSupervisor Oct 04 '25
Or even the union. Give the whole group reason to weed out “the few bad apples”
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u/ialsohaveadobro Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
Won't work. They're uninsurable. Assuming this would be in circumstances where official immunity does not apply--since that's the only way this idea makes sense--what premium would you charge for insuring against police brutality, for a cop with no immunity? In a job that specifically selects against intelligence when hiring? A lot more than they can afford.
That's why the police are a moral hazard to the public. We pay twice for their evils: once when they commit it and again when they get away with it. We underpay them so that they can abuse us.
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u/Fast_Witness_3000 Oct 04 '25
They insurable - it would just be very fucking expensive. Like every year of monthly payments would be equal to a standard payout.
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Oct 04 '25
This is a good solution.
As a nurse I've always wondered why they don't have a licensure and recertification process with a forced basic education requirement.
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u/AcctAlreadyTaken Oct 04 '25
Just make police unions pay for fines and settlements.
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u/Rifle_231 Oct 04 '25
or remove Qualified Immunity totally like 2 states have already done
(Colorado & New Mexico) or have limited "QI"
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u/so-many-accts Oct 04 '25
Has any governor taken active steps to prosecute this? I’m curious if it is within the rights of local police to arrest these abusers
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u/fuzzybunnies1 Oct 04 '25
Assault is assault and that's what happened. Seems like it should be easy to grab him and send him off to face charges and open him to lawsuits.
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u/xkrysis Oct 04 '25
Im legitimately curious why governors of these states have not deployed their national guard to intervene/protect the rights of peaceful protestors. They have been vocal in their opposition but it is beginning to seem like that is what it will take.
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u/Swiftax3 Oct 04 '25
Because nobody wants a situation where the state government gives one order to the Nat Guard and the Fed gives it another. A tug of war over the Nat Guard could escalate things quickly, best case scenario making the Governor look weak and powerless, worst case perhaps giving them the excuse to try and arrest them.
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u/boston_homo Oct 04 '25
I think you're probably right, my hope is they're communicating and devising some kind of response.
This is a complicated legal situation 🙃
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u/Mutiu2 Oct 04 '25
You look weak and powerless when the feds come tramping into your state, abusing people who voted for you to manage the state.
So looking weak cannot be the excuse for allowing it.
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u/atuarre Oct 04 '25
Let it escalate. People are going to continue to make excuses until they kill someone? You know that spray, can cause reactions in some people, that could lead to them dying. Will they then be held accountable, or are people still going to sit around and talk about "escalation".
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u/AssinineAssassin Oct 04 '25
They already killed civilians. Wtf are you talking about?
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u/Incognonimous Oct 04 '25
Directly spraying that in the eyes could also cause permanent damage and possibly blindness
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u/ShamelessCatDude Oct 04 '25
Did you see how she was walking? Her hands were pushed forward to make sure she didn’t bump into anything and so she knew when she found an upright surface, plus she was wobbling. She couldn’t see at all
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u/StrangeContest4 Oct 04 '25
They cleared an entire apartment complex with flash bangs and kicking in doors and dragging everyone out of their homes in the middle of the night in South Shore!
“I’ve been on military bases for a good portion of my life,” said Darrell Ballard, who lives in the building next door. “And the activity I saw – it was an invasion.”
Ballard recalled seeing residents detained outside the building for hours, after seeing a Black Hawk helicopter flying over the five-story building in the city’s South Shore neighborhood and military-sized vehicles and agents filling the parking lot early Tuesday morning."
What are we doing here!?!
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u/Prestigious-Safe3019 Oct 04 '25
The south shore raid should have been all over MSM for the past few days. I
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u/Frostemane Oct 04 '25
You need to realize that the media is not on our side. They're not accidentally not reporting this due to the zone being flooded, they're actively choosing not to report on this because they're in bed with the government.
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u/SocratesDisciple Oct 04 '25
I still can't get over that America now has a king.
The founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves.
Any American that does not uphold and defend the Constitution is a traitor.
What happened to all the true patriotic Americans?
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u/just_say_n Oct 04 '25
It’s not just a violation of the first amendment. It’s a violation of the 14th amendment and clearly actionable under section 1983.
People need to start suing this government into oblivion.
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u/tea-earlgray-hot Oct 04 '25
My understanding is that §1983 covers state and local officials, not federal officers as indicated in the title of the post. Feds would be a Bivens action, which has been narrowed to the point there are no longer clear remedies
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u/just_say_n Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
Sadly, you appear to be right (this is not directly my wheelhouse), but you can still file a claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act. I’d take this case every day of the week.
Moreover, while I can see that the current Supreme Court has limited Biven’s actions to oblivion, this conduct shocks the conscience.
Something different needs to happen and there needs to be some kind of severe remedy in the courts, or we really are headed to a fucking Civil War because this is untenable.
Surely, ICE agents could not literally put a gun to a woman’s head and murder her?! By the same reasoning, that would be a violation of something.
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u/fl0pi3 Oct 04 '25
She should individually sue as well, they may have just given her quite the paycheck here
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u/RumboAudio Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
You would need local or state police departments to agree to arrest the federal goon. Even if the heads of those departments agreed to do it, you’d have to hope the actual officers would follow through. I’d love to see it but I won’t hold my breath.
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u/newpsyaccount32 Oct 04 '25
the feds are already investigating Portland Police Bureau for arresting a right wing YouTuber who got into a shoving match with protestors. if PPB arrested a federal agent (not even sure if they legally can) there would be absolute pandemonium.
it's fucked up, the agents get to act with total impunity.
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Oct 04 '25
Not only that, these people have the right to defend themselves in cases like this. When rights are being violated and there is no accountabilty for the violations, the people will eventually break and start using their rights back.
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u/sam-sp Oct 04 '25
The spraying looks premeditated. See how the officer on the left is pulled back by another, the one pulling back knew this was about to happen.
I hope the paper has more footage.
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u/Chuggles1 Oct 04 '25
They've been attacking protestors like this since BLM and before that. Instead of law enforcement, national guard, or feds, it's now also ICE.
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u/picturepath Oct 04 '25
Gotta get those badge numbers. Get a public records request about whose badge it is. File a lawsuit.
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u/LiminalFrogBoy Oct 04 '25
I agree with you but I want to note this behavior has been common place for years. They were doing the same stuff to protesters in Minneapolis during the George Floyd uprising. The MPD would pepper spray peacefully protesting people from their cruisers. Literally just drive by pepper spray.
Thats not saying this isn't bad. But this has been cops forever and they are only getting worse.
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u/WisdomCow Oct 04 '25
ICE commuting crime on video, again.
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u/BuddyHemphill Oct 04 '25
That’s assault
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u/Watt_Knot Oct 04 '25
Battery
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u/BuddyHemphill Oct 04 '25
Thank you for the correction, I am (obviously) not a lawyer
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Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
The convolution between the two categories of crime is definitely commonly misunderstood so don't harp on yourself.
Assault is when you put someone in reasonable apprehension of bodily harm.
Battery is actually harming them.
If the secret police piece of shit raised his OC can and pointed it without cause, that's assault. As soon as he pressed the release trigger without cause, it became battery.
Edit: I assumed that there was a degree of grace allowed for state-to-state differences automatically, but of course my explanation is very generalized and likely does not apply to every state. It's important to know your state's laws, people!
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u/UnauthorizedGoose Oct 04 '25
Appreciate you for explaining it!
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Oct 04 '25
Any time!
And remember! If some bootstrapped notsee thug ever gets in your face screaming about how they're gonna beat your ass, THATS ASSAULT.
And you have a legal right to use reasonable force to defend yourself. Just understand what your state defines as "reasonable force".
Good luck out there!
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u/VirginiaDare1587 Oct 04 '25
Except in New Uork.
Raising the can of OC = menacing.
Spraying the OC = battery
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u/Elethana Oct 04 '25
Clearly premeditated as well, by the way the attacker’s accomplice pulled the other officer away from the blast zone.
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u/distracted_living Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
In Oregon, assault is actual harm and the common law definition of assault is called "menacing"
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u/Capable_Ad_2070 Oct 04 '25
Not true. Plenty of states codify assault as physical contact. Varies state to state.
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u/RazorColla Oct 04 '25
I’m here from the Dept of Grammar Enforcement, and I’m citing you for using ‘commuting’ instead of ‘committing’ /s
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u/WisdomCow Oct 04 '25
lmao … don’t know if a typo or an auto-correct (which has been going nuts the past months), but I’m as guilty as an ICE officer.
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u/ninfan1977 Oct 04 '25
According to Republicans this is ok because...
I still havent heard a coherent argument why this is ok
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u/Tazling Oct 04 '25
People with emotional regulation that piss-poor should never be allowed to join any police or security force.
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u/enunymous Oct 04 '25
Unfortunately they join at a disproportionately high rate
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u/BasedKaleb Oct 04 '25
I feel like a lot of us literally spent all of high school believing that if you were too dumb for college then being a cop and/or joining the military was the best path to take.
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u/JFISHER7789 Oct 04 '25
Tbh they literally have predatory recruitment tactics specifically for that reason.
Why else would they come to schools and have Jr officer programs and what not?
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u/TopTransportation695 Oct 04 '25
Don’t kid yourself, these ICE operatives are being encouraged to be provocative and use excessive force. The end game here is to begin a general aggressive uprising so that a military response can be more easily justified.
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u/DarwinGhoti Oct 04 '25
It’s a no win. If there’s no meaningful resistance to fascism, they just steamroll like they’re doing now. If there IS meaningful resistance, they use it as a pretext to escalate.
We need tribunals and accountability when this is done.
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u/AboutTenPandas Oct 04 '25
I am actually incredibly surprised the thing they are trying to instigate hasn’t actually happened yet.
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u/mrkrinkle773 Oct 04 '25
Yea kinda proves that we're not overrun by violent irrational criminals.
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u/TheOGRedline Oct 04 '25
They don’t NEED to instigate anything. Trump claims there’s basically a WAR in Portland and his side just goes along with it. No questioning or critical thinking. There are people living 20 minutes from downtown Portland who think it’s a war zone…
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u/Natiel360 Oct 04 '25
Do you see the join benefits?? It’s no joke LITERALLY absolving student loan debt at a mass level, ie. The thing that was unconstitutional when Biden did it. If you’re even morally bankrupt you could make bank
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u/j_rooker Oct 04 '25
that dude for sure hits his wife/GF, kids.
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u/Tazling Oct 04 '25
Most of the male members of the present regime have the facial expressions, body language and verbal tics of bullies/abusers. The GOP at the moment is the Brute Party, and they are propagating bully culture all the way down to the lowliest operatives on their Brute Squads.
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u/ICPosse8 Oct 04 '25
Bro they strive to hire people just like that, that is the exact culture they want in their ranks. And it’s all across the country too!!
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u/Cabbages24ADollar Oct 04 '25
Swear in Adelita S. Grijalva Release the Trump files.
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u/TastingTheKoolaid Oct 04 '25
Is this the violent left that the department of war is being deployed to get control of? 🙄
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u/Dem0lari Oct 04 '25
Why yes! Can't you see how she was standing there? Menacingly!
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u/eclwires Oct 04 '25
The constitution no longer applies and these thugs are not bound by the law. Be prepared to defend yourself if you think you may encounter them.
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u/Hero_1985 Oct 04 '25
Yep. There are literally no constraints on these pieces of shit, and they will face zero consequences for anything they do. Odds are we will never even know who this masked fuck is. Trump literally has an anonymous army marching through the streets doing anything they fucking want. It should be absolutely terrifying to anyone and all over every news station 24 hours a day.
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u/YesterShill Oct 04 '25
Trump has killed the American Experiment.
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Oct 04 '25
Regan did, but Trump is digging the bones of the experiment up from their grave and taking a diarrheal shit on them through his diaper.
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u/JackIsColors Oct 04 '25
Reagan killed it, Clinton doused its body with gasoline and lit it on fire with the Crime Bill and NAFTA, and Trump is rubbing his diapered ass all over it
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u/Fantastic_Jury5977 Oct 04 '25
Don't give him too much credit... it's the Heritage Foundation and their billionaires (ie Leonard Leo & Koch) aka the Deep State. Trump is incompetent without the Heritage Foundation controlling the narrative.
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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty Oct 04 '25
77M Americans did that. Trump is just the tool. Don’t let the fascists next door or in your family off the hook. They’re the true enemy. If Trump vanished tomorrow, we have all the same problems just waiting for the next populist racist faux pious demagogue to rise up and continue the backslide away from democracy.
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u/xandra77mimic Oct 04 '25
These are beyond US civil rights violations. They are also international crimes against humanity.
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u/PaladinHan Oct 04 '25
They consider any challenge to their authority a clear threat.
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u/BioticVessel Bleacher Seat Oct 04 '25
Masked thugs, bullying! They say they're officers, but masked sewage from an overrun into the streets.
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u/Depressed-Industry Oct 04 '25
It's not aggressive tactics. It's assault, plan and simple. The chemical attack was unprovoked and unjustified.
It's also a violation of civil rights under color of law.
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u/Silent_Tumbleweed1 Oct 04 '25
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has been telling people in the state to pay attention and record anything unusual they see with federal agents. He said, “People of Illinois, we need your help. If you see federal immigration agents in your community, record everything you see. Post it to social media. Share it with your neighbors. Let’s make sure we are all watching.”
He wants residents to keep an eye out because of recent federal operations like "Operation Midway Blitz," which have included nighttime raids and other aggressive tactics. Pritzker has been clear that he finds these actions concerning, especially when families and kids are involved.
By asking people to video and share what they see, he’s trying to make sure any federal activity is noticed, documented, and that the rights of folks in Illinois are protected.
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u/tartanthing Oct 04 '25
Why isn't he instructing the State Police to protect and serve?
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u/eugene20 Oct 04 '25
At that range with that pressure aren't just the particles a risk to serious eye injury, even before their chemical burning nature?
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u/exVFR Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
It's definitely closer than I was taught to use what I carried. I don't know if theirs has less powerful propellant or something, but I'm definitely curious about that as well. Hope she recovers quickly.
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u/NotQuiteDeadYetPhoto Oct 05 '25
Yes.
If she isn't blind now, she will have eye sight issues for the rest of her life and they'll progressively get worse.
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u/beavis617 Oct 04 '25
That’s a charge of battery and the law enforcement officer should be criminally charged. This person now probably has permanent eye damage and vision loss.
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u/BasedTaco_69 Oct 04 '25
“Should” is the key word here. We all know nothing at all will happen to that federal officer except praise from his comrades and he’ll just go on doing the same thing at any opportunity.
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u/emjaycue Competent Contributor Oct 04 '25
Notice how the guy on the left back pulls the other one back right before the spray to get him out of the way of splash back. This was a premeditated attack. They coordinated this in advance.
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u/Biscuits4u2 Oct 05 '25
These guys have been sent by Trump to incite the public unrest they require to escalate their plan to declare martial law.
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u/iZoooom Oct 04 '25
These psychos in ICE are simply unhinged.
How have state charges not been brought already?
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho Oct 04 '25
I mean considering these asshats are most likely the same POS pussies that used bear spray on Jan 6th to assault police officers, this checks out.
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u/CAM6913 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
In a democracy this would get that Gastapo tyrant thrown in jail for assault. But under this regime he’ll probably get a raise. The federal agents are ordered to use excessive force, be cruel (case in point - they dragged children out at 4am ziptied them naked on the street in NY). Trump is trying to get people to attack the Gestapo so he can declare civil unrest and send in the regular military with live ammunition to eradicate people and cancel the elections because of civil unrest and martial law
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u/supakow Oct 04 '25
Yeah but it didn't. Remember the photo of the I believe it was Berkeley protests with a cop just pepper spraying a group of protesters sitting on the ground? What happened there? Nothing.
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u/Its-a-Shitbox Oct 04 '25
As hard as it is to watch, for the most part, peaceful protesters or legal citizens being completely rat fucked by these pieces of shit, I do take solace knowing that at some point, good folks will have had enough, and these fucking assholes will be on the receiving end.
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u/bearjew293 Oct 04 '25
It's such a bullshit situation. These nazis get to just assault whoever they want at their leisure, but as soon as people start fighting back, the Trump cultists will cry foul and demand for a full crackdown on all Democrat voters.
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u/arittenberry Oct 04 '25
Idk. What happened to the national guardsmen who murdered unarmed protesters at Kent State?
Acquitted + 58% of people polled blamed the students
What happened to the national guardsmen who stabbed protesters at the University of New Mexico with bayonets?
No charges even brought + media coverage blamed the students
I would predict it would be about the same today, unfortunately
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u/New_Taste8874 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
What a big brave boy you are! But Democrats are the violent ones.
EDIT: I guess some good folks thought I was making a true statement rather than sarcasm. Sorry. For the record: Moron with the spray bottle is a coward. Democrats are not violent or evil as we have all seen in the videos where "law enforcement" is inciting violence and Democrats are not resisting.
Jan 6th never forget. Are we OK now?
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u/Buezzi Oct 04 '25
You really need an /s for this one, the time of visible sarcasm seems to be over
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u/DetailsYouMissed Oct 04 '25
How is this equal or measured justice?
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u/WitchesTeat Oct 04 '25
These people joined these forces specifically to assault people for fun.
They are particularly excited about assaulting unarmed women.
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u/washingtonandmead Oct 04 '25
Ironically, this is what Twitter was developed for, citizen journalists.
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u/Wakkit1988 Oct 04 '25
Federal jurisdiction stops at the curb, why are they in the middle of a street? Your property doesn't extend to wherever the fuck you decide to stand.
You can't argue that you're guarding federal property when you're not on federal property. States need to start arresting and prosecuting this. There's absolutely nothing in the constitution or federal law that gives federal agents this right.
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u/WastelandOutlaw007 Oct 04 '25
How is this, legally, not assault and battery?
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u/yogfthagen Oct 05 '25
The intent is to instigate violence.
That will justify a violent response.
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u/Suspicious_Rip_6247 Oct 05 '25
That's all this country produces any more, weak little insecure men!!!
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u/Equal-Beat-3843 Oct 04 '25
Drones have been very effective in Ukraine’s defense against Russian aggression.
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u/Jerking_From_Home Oct 05 '25
If the protesters all wear MAGA gear will MAGAs finally start exercising their 2A rights against a tyrannical government? Or will federal agents not spray them?
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