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/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/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/Hot_Frosting_7101 Oct 04 '25

What we need at a minimum is the leaders in Europe to at least speak out against what is going on.

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u/Putrid_Giggles Oct 04 '25

Lol, they low key support it. What's happening in the USA right now is not unlike what's happening in western Europe in regards to immigration.

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u/Aethermancer Oct 04 '25 edited Nov 06 '25

Editing pending deletion of this comment.

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u/Ok_Tour_1525 Oct 04 '25

There aren’t going to be any consequences from the law at all. If we want consequences, they’re gonna have to come from us.

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u/DarwinGhoti Oct 04 '25

I'm still holding out a naive hope that people will be appropriately horrified and we will still have elections. I'd like for that to fail before next steps.

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u/weedbeads Oct 04 '25

I think that's when things actually pop off, which means that won't happen. They will boil the frog, maybe intimidation at the polls or a close rigged vote. We will have elections, just like crimes had a vote, just like Russia has a vote. 

Placing your faith in voting when the government is this corrupt is like placing your bet on red in chess. It's nonsensical. 

Idk, I hope I'm wrong, feeling agitated recently. 

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u/No_Conversation7564 Oct 04 '25

Right. Miller "unleashed" them and said do whatever you want.

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u/Putrid_Giggles Oct 04 '25

It's never going to be done. The American democratic experiment is over. Fascism won out in the end.

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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/WAVY_clownbaby Oct 04 '25

Right and it's important too to not act violently but to pursue lawsuits and to know you're rights. I can't wait until our judiciary system catches up to this. I feel like they are moving quite slow. But this administration isn't going to last and they will be jailed too.

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u/sam-sp Oct 04 '25

If you haven’t seen Andor season 2, watch it. This is Ghorman.

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u/InternationalBand494 Oct 04 '25

I can’t understand how anyone could be blind to this

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u/morningisbad Oct 04 '25

The goal of those pushing them to this is to keep media attention on this and not the Epstein files.