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REP. STEIL: Some Dems demands put at risk the safety of members of law enforcement CNBC: You mean like taking off their masks and having a badge that shows who they are? STEIL: Well, they're known to their supervisors CNBC: No other law enforcement officials in the US are allowed to wear masks

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Their supervisors, and the supervisors of their supervisors, and the supervisors of the supervisors of their supervisors, are all permissive of the abuse of power. In fact, "permissive" is understating it a bit. It's the whole point of ICE at this point: to be a state-sanctioned terrorist org

No, no, and no. Americans pay their salary. We want the masks off, period. Do police worry about being doxxed by the general public? No, they don’t. Unless they cross with unlawful actions. If ICE choose to follow the law, as they should, there’s no reason to wear a mask.

Sorkin is an OK man, unlike Ker.... 80% of ICE thugs will quit if masks are not allowed, as ICE officials confess. but Miller needs secret police.

This no mask doxxing argument is a fallacy. The government admitted that the majority of the brownshirts are out-of-towners, sent in numbers to overwhelm local law enforcement. Masks dehumanize the agents and allows them to ignore boundaries without accountability. “Their supervisors know…” 🤮

The "threat level" wouldn't exist if they had a legit warrant for arrest & behaved professionally. Instead, they behave as thug bullies with no sense of decorum, and they revel in the violence. They aren't behaving as law enforcement should. They delegitimize their own agency with their actions.

What came first? Brutal gang bravado with masks and tear gas ripping people out of their cars. Or protest and doxing of brutal ICE? They need masks so they can act without restraint. Cooperation is a red herring.

Every single law enforcer should always be identifiable. Anything else would be allowing civilians to dress up like them and do whatever they want.

Is there even one instance of a mob forming to come after an ICE thug at his home following one of their brutal and violent street arrest? If not, why the need for anonymity? Here’s why, they are not hiding from the immigrants, they’re hiding from legal accountability for their brutality.

Maybe the fundamental problem is that what ICE is carrying out is extremely unpopular with the populace. 🤔 Local jurisdictions don’t want their police forces assisting because they are fundamentally opposed to the policy. This Rep is just trying to justify a police state.

Those hosts wouldn't know a good follow-up if it kicked them in the teeth. Shouldn't be surprised though. After all, they couldn't even get him to give a single straight answer. Presumably they went to j school. Those schools should demand that they return their diplomas.

"... they're known to their supervisors..." That's a real help when they're murdering and assaulting citizens on the streets. It's a real help to malefactors impersonating ICE for their own criminal ends.

So who are the SUPERVISORS of the Thugs who Murdered Pretti & Good? (Likely wearing masks as well) NO ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE SECRET GESTAPO

It’s exhausting listening to the spin. Absolute nonsense. The dems weakly ask for no masks, body cameras, visible badge numbers, etc when these are a given to most citizens. Making ICE “give in” to these is NOT a win.

TRUE, a win would be regular order where ICE has to get a legal warrant to enter a home ! OTHERWISE ABOLISH ICE AND DEPORT PETER THEIL, ELON MUSK, RUSSELL VOIGHT AND SEND TRUMP TO LIVE WITH HIS BRIDE ..PUTIN.

And who is going to enforce that? The problem is few local or state police departments are willing to "get involved" to protect us. We need to put pressure on the locals to protect all residents. Show up at County Supervisor and City Council meetings to demand protects from these thugs

So Steil basically admits Trump is turning the country into some death-squad infested, underdeveloped shithole state with a barely functioning legal system being run for the benefit of wealthy insiders at war with their own citizens. Good take.

right. why do we allow the most untrained, unfit force to wear masks? probably because many of them are Jan 6 attackers or some other bad guys who beat their wives or were caught with child porn.

Ice are wearing mask because they are ashamed of what they are doing and they don't want the family and friends know who they are. If what they are doing was a respectable task, then they would be like the rest of our law enforcement and operate without a mask.

The areas of "local law cooperating" aren't being hit by a surge of goons. Even sanctuary cities do THEIR job of crowd control or arrests for actual crimes. ICE could do THEIRS without rugby scrums on observers or law abiding long term migrants. It's done that for years. THEIR OWN FAULT if doxed

Such a false GOP trope - comparing the situation in US to “Central American countries.” In one we want transparency to push for accountability, in the other drug cartels target law enforcement for retribution

He is basically saying we are a “banana republic” now. Just like South American authoritarian regimes our law enforcement can wear masks. They are going after regular people not targeting organized crime bosses.

The coordinated message as ice oversteps its bounds and commits illegal acts is basically "You see baby, how I gave you that black eye? If you just lay back, stop fighting me, and let me do it. Then this stops happening."

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Their supervisors aren't the ones being assaulted, deprived of due process and killed by them. The reasons are simple! They are using illegal "methods" that are actionable, so they want their identities hidden and they don't want the many Jan 6 pardoned criminals recognized for the thugs they are.

The Republicans look for any excuse to impose more authoritarianism. If they have to wear masks because of bad democrats, why do they also wear them in red states?

Brian, I would argue that these thugs are NOT law enforcement. they are the secret, MILITARIZED, SECRET police of the Felon you keep supporting through murders and scandals. Shame on you and pox on your family, Brian Steil.

Well, Brian, since their 'supervisors', (and I use the term loosely), covers up for their every murder, that does not amount to proper LAW enforcement. Just 'retribution by a senile old man who keeps repeating that the 2020 was 'stolen' from him. Regular police officers show their face and badge.

ICE is not criminal law enforcement. Being in this country illegally is a misdemeanor, not a felony. Statistics show that only 14% of the arrests made by ICE have actualy had criminal records. In any company, if your goal was to arrest criminal immigrants, and you produced only 14%, you'd be fired.

If it acts like a Nazi, dresses like a Nazi & disappears people into caged camps with out due process…guess what, IT’S A NAZI

If ICE didn't attack people like a pack of rabid animals they wouldn't be so hated. If they went after the actual criminals people wouldn't be protesting like they are. They travel in packs and attack brown and black people. That isn't law enforcement.

He just lied It’s only happening where local PD isn’t cooperating blah blah They aren’t doing this in Florida or Texas home of some of the largest unauthorized migrants 3.7 million Meanwhile Minn & ME combined is 91 thousand It’s all bullshit

Hey congressman, wear the exact same getup as these "agents" with the skull mask and wrap-around sunglasses and camo and military issue from head to toe and cast a vote on the floor next time and see if they believe you. No name tag, badge or capital ID or lanyard. No identification at all. Try it

When I say that on social media, I get copypasta responses that "BATF, DEA, CBP, US Marshals, & SWAT teams wear masks!" Yeah, when they're actually carrying out raids, maybe, and they're RESPIRATORS, because they use tear gas. NOT THE SAME THING!

And it's time for that to stop too. Domestic crime stoppers are supposed to be on the right side of things. That job naturally comes with risks. We should know who our heroes are that put themselves in harms way for us.

500,00 deer hunters in Mn. All of them own high power rifles. 500,000 duck, grouse, pheasant hunters all of them own large gauge shotguns. Hundreds of thousands of pistols, AR's, varmint guns, and many others. ZERO shots in anger. Zero shots at ICE. Zero cement blocks off overpasses. Violent my ass

They dont even bring up the most important point, that when these federal officers are allowed to not identify themselves, ANYONE can put on tac-gear and call themselves ICE, for any purpose!

Stop smashing out windows, dragging people out of their cars, beating people up, shooting people, gassing people and they won't have to be worried about being doxed.

they don't have to worry about being doxed anyway, that was some BS arguing with NOT ENOUGH PUSHBACK from the journalists. GD I can only take SO MUCH OF A LIAR LYING TO MY FACE BEFORE I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE, I WANT JOURNALISTS TO BE MORE ANGRY!!!!!!!

There is a level of threat because citizens are angry that the President has unleashed a band of masked thugs who are breaking laws and thumbing their nose at our constitution by harassing peaceful protesters, terrorizing people of color, and arresting people with no warrant and no probable cause.

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I still want to SEE some actual instances of someone being doxxed or threatened. I understand it is a possibility, but they were wearing masks and not showing badges well before.

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All he can say is “local law enforcement.” Nobody is going to cooperate w/a bunch of depraved fake law enforcement. Local law enforcement is not going to help ICE take away our rights & break our laws.This guy can’t answer the fucking question.Basically saying “help” ICE to continue their brutality

Here they at least arrested the shooter, an off-duty part-time cop. We'll have to see how it plays out in court. It wouldn't surprise me if Stokes felt empowered to abuse his authority because of Trump and his administration. www.wral.com/news/local/o...

wral.comOff-duty Virginia police officer arrested, accused of shooting woman inside her vehicleThe search for a Virginia man who authorities said fired shots at a woman while driving is over after authorities arrested him Monday night.

It's real easy to remember instances where doxxing lead to a homicidal Republican murdering someone. 11 Drs were gunned down since RvW was decided. One was shot in the back of the head at his own church service. So...yeah. They know they're doxxing. They just pretend to not know their opponents.

"No other law enforcement officials in the US are allowed to wear masks". Not true. California legislators exempted our state police from our mask law passed last year, making it apply only to local PD and feds. Why do they think CHP needs to mask?

Guy is from where I'm from and an absolute embarrassment. He comes out with this no insider trading bill, after Sen OssOff did, yet Steil is one that has increased his wealth the most via trading since he's been in office

They are working in a challenging environment of their own creation. If they ignore the law, ignore the courts, kidnap, and murder people and then say "you made us hide our identities. It's your fault for being mad at us", then they are just being abusers. Steil is an abuser.

How about masked LEO bash do a traffic stop on this guy, refuse to identify themselves and then smash his car window when he can't tell if this is a legitimate stop or a car jacking. Then see what he thinks.

Bad things have happened in *South American* countries so we have to have secret police in the USA? There's a precedent we can't afford to set. LOTS of bad things happen somewhere in the entire continent that is South America. Are we going to set all our laws & practices according to that?

Already 900+ comments, so IDK who will see this, but Rep Bryan Steil (R-WI CD01) is in a gerrymandered (Thanks, Scott Walker) district vacated by Paul Ryan (a devotee of Ayn Rand and claimed to listen to Rage Against the Machine; Tom Morello told Ryan, "You are the machine we rage against.")

In fact, in my state it is illegal to wear a mask in public places for the purpose of concealing your identity. Guess the MAGAs who passed that bill, and overrode the governor’s veto, conveniently forgot about it when ICE came to town