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Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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Re: Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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This sort of thing is terrifying to me. I've read a little bit about the Stasi, and back then the whole idea behind it seemed too absurd to believe. Now we're living it. If you question or protest the status quo, you are literally putting your life in danger.

Re: Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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The video of this is crazy. It looks like a Hollywood movie.

Do you have a link?

Here's one such encounter: https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1283452585945583618

What rights do you have resisting being grabbed from the street by somebody who isn't identifying themselves as law enforcement? They just have a "police" patch, they could be cosplayers.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a link?

Here's one such encounter: https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1283452585945583618 What rights do you have resisting being grabbed from the street by somebody who isn't identifying themselves as law enforcement? They just have a "police" patch, they could be cosplayers.

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Re: Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a link?

Here's one such encounter: https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1283452585945583618 What rights do you have resisting being grabbed from the street by somebody who isn't identifying themselves as law enforcement? They just have a "police" patch, they could be cosplayers.

You most certainly have the right to defend yourself with lethal force, but good luck practically asserting that right. About the only hope for that would be citizen militias organizing to defend society against these lawless criminals.

This here should be a call for the libertarian-oriented red tribe to fight back against government tyranny. Either much of the red tribe needs to break free of their propaganda bubble misleading them into thinking this totalitarian behavior is in any way American, or things are going to continue to get uglier and uglier.

Re: Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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What's really happening is that these rioters (not the protestors) are watched trying to instigate violence at the protests and when they leave the area, they get arrested. This is because the local government has been absolutely useless at doing their job at stopping the rioting.

Start at 9:30 timestamp:

https://youtu.be/3ptD6koTknw?t=570

People sharing videos of this share either selectively edited videos without context OR they only share the ending part where they are arrested and not the part where they were instigating violence in the peaceful protests.

https://youtu.be/ha-7SETmJD4

Also they are not unidentified. They have Police on their chest.

There's also a theory (can't confirm this) that these are undercover operatives being extracted as they have been infiltrated Antifa.

Re: Unidentified Federal Law Enforcement Detaining Protestors Without Explanation

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This sort of thing is terrifying to me. I've read a little bit about the Stasi, and back then the whole idea behind it seemed too absurd to believe. Now we're living it. If you question or protest the status quo, you are literally putting your life in danger.

These people are not protestors. There were rioters who would mix in with the protestors and then start violence. Protestors don't show up dressed in all black with a helmet and baseball bat.

They have also been allowed to throw bricks, molotovs, bats etc on law enforcement and people. They are destroying the peaceful protests to turn them into violence. Local law enforcement hasn't been doing anything to stop it because the mayors have been useless. That's where the feds intervene - especially because most of these people who are getting arrested are crossing state lines and therefore federal.

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