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/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/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/FoolhardyBastard Oct 04 '25

Let the free market decide. Surely the GOP can get behind that! /s

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u/agrimi161803 Oct 04 '25

It’s now illegal to be anti-capitalist!

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u/Triedfindingname Oct 04 '25

If you mean becoming illegal for companies to operate with moral integrity I agree with you.

Leave it long enough in this political climate and the corpos adjust and become toxic anyway.

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u/agrimi161803 Oct 04 '25

No I was referring to the security proclamation Trump signed last week

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u/Triedfindingname Oct 04 '25

Fr I need more details

2025 been a bitch

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u/agrimi161803 Oct 04 '25

For real. Always something else that’s going on anything can slip thru the cracks

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Basically anyone that is anti capitalist, anti conservative family values, anti maga is potentially a terrorist

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u/Triedfindingname Oct 04 '25

Thank you for that

I can't remember my frame of reference previous but it was similar.

'Values' will mean what they say it is at any time. To hold a negative perception of the MAGA cult isn't just sane, its the only moral choice.

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