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Dr Punchline
@lanarone.bsky.social

In france, during the events now known as "The Yellow Jackets", several persons lost an eye to these rubber bullets, obviously on purpose from the cops. People lost hands and feet trying to throw back/kick tear gaz and flashbang grenades. There's a whole lot of documentaries that documented this.

Dr Punchline
@lanarone.bsky.social

Few people effectively died because of sound grenades to the head and one old lady was murdered, being suffocated AT HOME by a tear gas grenade thrown "by mistake" (I believed she lived on the second or third floor of her building).

Jan Dehn
@jandehn.bsky.social

BLOG: The US is learning the same lesson as the Germans - that perfectly ordinary citizens willingly don uniforms and carry out the dirty work of fascist masters. Americans themselves - those in ICE, the police and other agencies - are the enemy within. www.jandehn.com/post/the-ene...

jandehn.comThe enemy within: America’s security servicesAmerica's beloved members of the security and armed services are increasingly doing Gestapo work for Trump. It is time to discuss this issue.
Shadow and Light
@shadowandlight.bsky.social

Los Angeles. June 2025. They protested the abduction and deportation of neighbors, and ICE raids feeling like terrorism in the night. The response? Military force. This isn’t order. It’s intimidation. We don’t scare easy. We organize… We remember.

gamer.spyke
@gamespyke.bsky.social

incremental martial law: iirc, the governor objected to the federalization of Arkansas's National Guard that would empower the racial integration of the high school in Little Rock. Eisenhower authorized it anyway, and today, I suspect, most USAns would say that Ike made the correct decision.

WIRED
@wired.com

As the protests escalate in LA, WIRED is also covering what the agency has been doing in the shadows. Recently, ICE quietly rescinded guidance that advised agents conducting courthouse raids to take steps to avoid violating state and local laws while carrying out civil immigration arrests.

wired.comICE Quietly Scales Back Rules for Courthouse RaidsA requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don’t clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency. ICE declined to explain what that means for future enforcement.
WIRED
@wired.com

ICE is also paying software company Palantir $30 million to provide the agency with “near real-time visibility” on people self-deporting from the United States, according to a contract justification published in a federal register. The tool would also help ICE choose who to deport.

wired.comICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance PlatformIn a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
Jan Dehn
@jandehn.bsky.social

BLOG: The US is learning the same lesson as the Germans - that perfectly ordinary citizens willingly don uniforms and carry out the dirty work of fascist masters. Americans themselves - those in ICE, the police and other agencies - are the enemy within. www.jandehn.com/post/the-ene...

jandehn.comThe enemy within: America’s security servicesAmerica's beloved members of the security and armed services are increasingly doing Gestapo work for Trump. It is time to discuss this issue.
WIRED
@wired.com

On November 6, 2024, hours after news outlets declared that Donald Trump had been elected the next president of the United States, ICE posted a notice asking companies to submit plans for how they would expand ICE’s system of ankle monitors, GPS trackers, biometric check-in technology.

wired.comICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump WonUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement put out a fresh call for contracts for surveillance technologies before an anticipated surge in the number of people it monitors ahead of deportation hearings.
Dr Deb K
@drdebk.bsky.social

Mayor Karen Bass in LA noted that none of the former immigration rules/processes were being followed by Trump. Like not allowing detained people to have access to lawyers who are on the scene to offer help.

gianthippo.bsky.social
@gianthippo.bsky.social

Wearing all black is horrible idea. That's what the anarchists wear. They're the ones attacking police. In LA, wear your local team gear. Lakers. Dodgers. Angels. Rams. Galaxy. LAFC (white kit). Trojans. Bruins. It's all good. Show your local pride. Or wear something in light colors.

Peter Holubar
@peterholubar.bsky.social

Absolutely. We’ve seen this elsewhere too. In France, during the Yellow Vest protests, police used “less-lethal” weapons like rubber bullets and flashbang grenades. Dozens lost eyes. Some were hit in the face on purpose. 1/2

Peter Holubar
@peterholubar.bsky.social

A recent ARTE documentary shows how policing has become militarized—even against citizens demanding social justice. These weapons are not safe. They are just less accurate ways to silence dissent. 2/2

Goaloa
@goaloa.bsky.social

ICE blocked traffic. People stuck in the traffic jam caused by ICE, sitting in their cars, were fired on with tear gas, because ICE saw them watching. They had to get out of their cars to breath. ICE saw them recording & fired more gas - injuring and then arresting people. ICE incited the violence.

Nightmarica
@n1ghtmarica.bsky.social

And we also present: bsky.app/profile/n1gh... Please file a complaint in a timely fashion. NEPA violations are no small matter.

Nightmarica@n1ghtmarica.bsky.social

ACTION ITEM: Contact Los Angeles District Attorney's Office to report NEPA Violations in DHS's use of Tear Gas DHS failed to do an environmental impact assessment before deploying tear gas. Gross negligence and a NEPA violation. (See comments for background) da.lacounty.gov/contact/email

Nightmarica
@n1ghtmarica.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/n1gh... From the Ministry of Petty, we present:

Nightmarica@n1ghtmarica.bsky.social

ACTION ITEM - File a complaint with the Southern CA Air Quality Management District over DHS's use of tear gas and other pollutants. ONLINE FORM: xappp.aqmd.gov/complaints/N... or EMAIL: cut_smog@aqmd.gov (See below. You need to cite details about Who, what, when, where, etc.)

Janet R Weil
@janetrweil.bsky.social

Appreciate your reporting on this. But please don't call it "tear gas." Those chemical weapons (more than 1 kind) can cause more than tears and eye irritation - they can cause nausea, dizziness, mood changes, irregular bleeding in women, nosebleeds, and much more.

Dru
@medru.bsky.social

This is a result of decades of the "news" stations pitting Americans against Americans. They are shaping Trump's new reality. They lie for him, they scorn for him, they persuade for him. They twist our reality in this nation. They are not news.

LA Resident Tourist
@laresidenttourist.bsky.social

In 2020 there were countless instances of rubber bullets being deliberately shot at people's eyes and genitals. A woman next to me was deliberately shot in the breast from five feet away by LAPD. We were holding signs and chanting, nothing more.