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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

ICE has secretly trained civilians to use firearms, conduct surveillance, and simulate raids on immigrants. New revelations show this controversial program has been ongoing in over a dozen U.S. cities

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ICE has secretly trained civilians to use firearms, conduct surveillance, and simulate raids on immigrants. New revelations show this controversial program has been ongoing in over a dozen U.S. cities

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A Secretive ICE Program Trains Civilians on Firearms and Surveillance
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ICE recruits civilians to role play as agents for a secretive public relations initiative that trains them to shoot firearms, conduct surveillance, and use lethal force.
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  • ProgAimerGirl [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    An ICE spokesperson confirmed to Documented that HSI’s Citizens Academies are still ongoing across the country. Similar initiatives are implemented by other law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the spokesperson said.

    somehow the already very alarming headline was burying the lede… yes-honey-left

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      deleted by creator

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      Can we get a list of locations? For infiltration and other hilarious reasons.

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    God damn, a screenwriter would be scolded by their editor for being too heavy handed if they went half as far as this article says.

    • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Unfortunately in this case the story was made into two video games, one that is almost a parody in how much it polishes the boot of American civil religion (The Division 1 and 2)

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.net
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    seppo fucks are still playing cowboy, deputising posses to remove us-foreign-policy from land they stole

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      seppo

      TIL seppo = yank (americans)

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        Yup, it’s rhyming slang: Yank -> septic tank-> seppo

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          they should perform seppoku

  • pumpchilienthusiast [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    Thanks Obama

  • AmericaHaterSexHaver [any, any]@hexbear.netBanned
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    The hoga teaching even rounder hogs to breachinclear, gobbless

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    When in street clothes, due to liability issues anytime you engage a target, especially in a deadly force situation, you need to identify who you are, Police, drop the gun!, while drawing and firing on the target. Video, cameras, phones and witnesses.

    We know this is how cops operate, try to make it sound like there’s a deadly threat even if there isn’t, but this is what they’re training civilians to do?

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      even if the target doesn’t have a gun

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        You wouldn’t think they would want to admit this to non-cops

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    Probably ex cops

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