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As far back as 2017, I wrote that what is holding Trump back from becoming the genocidal dictator of his dreams, is a big enough army willing to accomplish his illegal ethnonationalist goals. Even now, as GOP budget funding feeds into Trump's turbo-charged police state, he lacks the ability to occupy multiple cities at once, and as Minneapolis demonstrated, the violent fascist goons necessary to control even the cities he occupies. Furthermore, Gestapo security forces the regime is forced to deploy to quell resistance to the ethnic cleansing project in our streets, are Gestapo forces that aren't actually doing the kidnappings necessary to feed Stephen Miller's insatiable demand for deportation numbers.

As I noted above, one of the ways Trump has tried to bridge the numbers gap between the army he has, and the Schutzstaffel of his dreams, is to recruit local police forces into roving "task force" agents that resemble nothing so much as slavecatchers, through the 287(g) program. This program, a longstanding bipartisan gift to racist sheriff's departments that want to play border cop or concentration camp jailer in their towns, has rapidly expanded under the Trump regime, and now former DHS employees are sounding the alarm that like ICE itself, these "deputized" murderpigs are being tasked with rounding people up for the color of the skin, with virtually no oversight whatsoever.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/15/local-police-immigration-partnership-287g-civil-rights

Ex-watchdogs warn rush to give power to local police in immigration crackdown risks ‘threat to civil rights’

“Taking a problematic enforcement program, that reintroduces models of enforcement that were discontinued because of demonstrable civil rights violations and super-sizing it while removing all internal guardrails, is more than alarming,” said Katerina Herodotou, one of the former CRCL officials who was ousted last year. “It is a threat to civil rights nationwide.”

This is a long article but the short story here is that immediately after taking power, the Trump regime gutted every civil rights and oversight division that would keep track of abuses by pigs operating under these 287(g) agreements. At the same time, DHS mandated a return to a "task force model" of rounding up migrants that had been phased out in 2012 after longtime Trump ally Sheriff Joe Arpaio was found running what was essential a migrant torture camp out of his jail in Arizona.

"Now deputized local officials can interrogate anyone they believe is in the US unlawfully about their immigration status in the course of their regular police work. And they can detain people and turn them over to ICE without the pretext of a criminal arrest, purely on suspicion of violating immigration law despite that being a federal, civil offense."

So, pigs that sign up for this program can behave exactly like Gestapo goons in Minneapolis, and because there's literally nobody assigned to police the police doing this, they definitely will. Now Americans don't have to wait for ICE to come to their town; local police forces can bring the Gestapo to our streets by proxy. Of course adoption of the program is (for now) voluntary, but there sure are a lot of police departments signing up.

"An increasing number of local law enforcement agencies throughout the country have signed 287(g) agreements in the past year to actively cooperate with ICE. In January 2025, fewer than 200 jurisdictions were involved. Now, more than 1,400 local, county and state agencies have signed on to aid DHS in its immigration enforcement work."

How is Trump getting police forces to sign up for a program that makes them Gestapo agents? Sure cops are racist, but they're also lazy. Would you believe by bribing them with money the GOP provided in the Big Fascism Bill?

"Big Beautiful Bill funding is now used for incentivizing local agencies to deputize more of their officers for ICE task forces, offering $7,500 for equipment per new task force officer, $100,000 for new vehicles per agency and full reimbursement for the salary and benefits of each task force officer."

The Trumpenreich has even instituted a bonus program for murderpigs that round up migrants well.

"The Trump administration in October also began offering “monetary performance awards” to local agencies based on the number of undocumented immigrants they identify, including up to $1,000 per officer, per quarter. One CRCL official was shocked to learn of this.

“They have essentially set up a bounty hunter system and are incentivizing local/state law enforcement to detain anyone who appears to be undocumented,” they told the Guardian."

Folks, the Trump regime is turning local police into their white nationalist Gestapo and paying slavecatcher bounties to murderpigs who kidnap migrants. I don't know what it will take for Americans to realize we're already living in the Pork Reich, but it sure does feel like it's time to stop pretending.

#ICE #Police #EthnicCleansing #Trump #GOP #CivilRights #Gestapo #DHS #Murderpigs #287G

Ex-watchdogs warn rush to give power to local police in immigration crackdown risks ‘threat to civil rights’

Critics say Trump administration’s rapidly expanding system is open to abuse and risks alienating communities from local police

The Guardian

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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes Jul 23, 2025

Given that the Trump regime does indeed appear to be transforming the invasion and occupation of Los Angeles by the Gestapo and assorted federal goons into a blueprint for future, similar operations, I'm going to change the focus of this thread going forward. Rather than just talking about militarized Gestapo tactics in and around Los Angeles, we're going to use this space to keep track of those tactics, as well as the propaganda being used to justify them, in Democrat-controlled cities across America.

While I still intend to keep talking about immigration law, the Gestapo, and the mass deportation program in our thread on ethnic cleansing, the active weaponization of a soon-to-be unfathomably large federal immigration Gestapo to occupy and usurp authority from "enemy" cities, is a new and terrifying development in Trump's attempt to transform America into an executive branch dictatorship with theocratic characteristics. As such, I think it makes sense to separate out these types of highly-militarized activities from the (equally horrifying) mass deportation program itself. I'm not sure what we're going to do with stories about Gestapo kidnapping raids - which is where these two threads intertwine; I guess we'll cross that bridge when it comes up.

To kick off this repurposing, I'd like to briefly examine a story from last month that I meant to share but didn't find time for. One of the key factors, and untold stories, behind the Trump regime's ability to invade, occupy, and police Democrat-run sanctuary cities, is the open cooperation ICE and the rest of the Gestapo receive from local law enforcement. Furthermore, and quite contrary to popular reporting, the simple truth is that this assistance is being provided by local police forces even in the very same Democrat-run, sanctuary cities being targeted for federal occupation or Gestapo kidnapping raids. Finally, and most importantly, this isn't about betrayal by the frequently Trump-aligned pigs either. The reality is, this situation is a result of policy decisions being made by the same Democrat mayors and officials that Trump is targeting for refusal to cooperate with his mass deportation program.

https://truthout.org/articles/local-police-departments-are-enabling-ices-deportation-machine/

Local Police Departments Are Enabling ICE’s Deportation Machine

"While many mayors of major U.S. cities claim to oppose ICE actions — and have even implemented formal “sanctuary city” policies — local police often act as a “force multiplier” for ICE, even when they aren’t directly involved in detaining migrants themselves. That is, even in sanctuary cities that claim to support their immigrant residents and restrict collaboration between ICE and local police, the police are essential to ICE’s success.

The roots of this seeming contradiction can be found in the decision of these mayors to rely on local police to criminalize anything they deem disorderly, with devastating consequences for our poorest communities and the right to protest."

This is a well written article that I would strongly encourage you to read in full, even though I'm sharing it weeks late. I think it's important here to distinguish between the typical types of information sharing with the Gestapo American murderpigs do all the time, and what this article is discussing. The plain truth is that in their insistence to restore order, and prove to a fascist regime that doesn't care either way that they can "uphold the law" Democrat politicians are allowing local police forces to be used as a militarized suppression arm targeting resistance to the Trump regime's Gestapo kidnapping operations. Under the auspices of "protecting federal authorities," local police departments are gleefully violating the civil rights of their own citizens and violently suppressing protests against again, racialized mass kidnappings by armed nazis in masks.

"When resistance becomes more active, as we have seen in the last week in New York City and Los Angeles, local police are tasked with the suppression of that resistance, both when directly protesting ICE’s presence and later when disrupting the larger deportation machine. For example, police clashed with protesters attempting to prevent ICE vans from driving away from a courthouse in Seattle. During last weekend’s protests, it was Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers using projectile weapons and tear gas to disperse protesters, and it was NYPD officers who arrested 80 people outside the Federal Building in New York on June 11."

As the article goes on to note, these attacks, conducted by local law enforcement on behalf of a Trumpenreich Gestapo that is actively occupying the city they work for, include targeting peaceful protestors, citizens documenting police and immigration enforcement activity, and even professional journalists. Thus the police are, strictly speaking, acting as Trump's 5th column in occupied territory.

#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #Murderpigs #Gestapo #Invasion #USPol #ICE #Police #MartialLaw #CivilRights

Local Police Departments Are Enabling ICE’s Deportation Machine

Even in cities where police decline to work with ICE, local law enforcement still bolster Trump’s deportation agenda.

Truthout

Gigi 🍄‍🟫Jan 31, 2025

Today in #FuckThePolice

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The family's updated statement of claim now reveals the officer who opened fire at Choudry was Jason Sandilands. Sandilands and two other officers, Adam Paiement and Marc Charlebois, climbed onto Choudry's balcony, Paiement armed with a less-lethal firearm and Charlebois with a Taser.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ejaz-choudry-police-officers-1.7444327

#MurderPigs
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle
#BadCopBingo

No longer 'faceless': Police in Ejaz Choudry death identified — and for one, it wasn't his 1st fatal encounter | CBC News

More than four years after Ejaz Choudry was shot and killed by Peel police, CBC News has learned the names of the officers involved that day — and for one of them, this wasn’t his first deadly encounter with a person in crisis. The revelations come after a lengthy court battle in which Peel police tried unsuccessfully to keep the officers’ identities hidden from the public.

CBC

AnarchoNinaAnalyzes Aug 28, 2024

I think this story is absolutely wild because not only is an outrageous example of dangerous police misconduct and cops investigating themselves to cover up that misconduct, but the logic the offending murderpig (a Police Chief in Albuquerque, New Mexico no less) gives for not activating his body camera says literally everything about why I think police reform is impossible and abolition is really the only answer.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/albuquerques-police-chief-says-cops-181046009.html

Albuquerque's Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right To Leave Their Body Cameras Off

"Medina offered two puzzling excuses for leaving his camera off. He "cited intermittent conversations with his wife, who was a passenger in his unmarked patrol vehicle at the time of the collision," Ortiz says. "He claimed there was a right to privileged communication between spouses, which specifically exempted him from mandatory recording requirements." But the relevant policy "does not provide for nonrecording based on spousal privilege."

Even more troubling, Medina said he "purposefully did not record because he was invoking his 5th Amendment right not to self-incriminate." Since "he was involved in a traffic collision," he reasoned, he was "subject to 5th Amendment protections."

Think about the implications of that argument. Body cameras are supposed to help document (and perhaps deter) police misconduct. But Medina is suggesting that cops have a constitutional right to refrain from recording their interactions with the public whenever that evidence could be used against them. By turning on their cameras in those situations, he argues, police could be incriminating themselves. That is the whole point."

The tl;dr here is that while driving a department issued truck to a press conference with his wife, the Police Chief (Harold Medina) decides to visit a homeless encampment, and when shit in that area jumps off he flees the scene of what he claims is a crime in progress by "crossing Central Avenue, a busy, four-lane street, against the light. He crosses the westbound lanes through a gap between two cars, forcing one of the drivers to brake abruptly, before barreling across the eastbound lanes, where he rams into the side of a gold 1966 Mustang driven by 55-year-old Todd Perchert." This *severely* injures the driver of the Mustang but the Albuquerque PD decides to let the fleet Crash Review Board (CRB) investigate the incident anyway, even though by department policy the CRB is only allowed to review crashes that don't cause serious injuries. Laughably, the CRB cleared Medina and declared the crash non-preventable, but a later internal affairs investigation didn't agree and objected to the CRB reviewing the incident in the first place; and rightly so given the injuries to Perchert. Adding to the level of fuckery, the cop in charge of referring the case to this review board claims he did so because "someone from Internal Affairs wanted the case to be heard by the CRB to ensure full transparency" even though he literally never spoke with IA to confirm that "assumption."

Now all of this is a very good reason why having cops investigate themselves is an absurd proposition, but the story gets even more outrageous when you find out Medina was wearing a body camera, and purposely didn't turn it on even though state law says he should have for at least two reasons; the incident near the homeless encampment he was fleeing from, and the actual crash that caused serious injuries due to his *extremely* reckless driving. For Medina to then turn around and claim he was protecting privileged conversations with his wife, and exercising his 5th Amendment right not to incriminate himself in the middle of this shitshow not only stretches the limits of credibility, but also calls into question Medina's understanding of the law, state legislation involving police body cameras, and his role as a police officer entirely.

Okay so, given all that, Medina obviously got fired right? After all, other police officers in Albuquerque have been fired in similar situations. The answer is "nope," and in fact Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller praised Medina as a "hero," said he was glad the Police Chief was "ok" and then lauded Medina for being "on the front line" and "doing what he can to keep our city safe" - which apparently involves cutting across multiple lanes of busy traffic at high speed and maiming an innocent bystander. You literally can't make this shit up; and you also can't reform it.

#Police #BodyCam #Albuquerque #Abolition #5thAmendment #PoliceMisconduct #Murderpigs

Albuquerque's Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right To Leave Their Body Cameras Off

Harold Medina made that argument during an internal investigation of a car crash he caused last February.

Yahoo News

AnarchoNinaAnalyzes Jul 17, 2024

This Op-Ed piece by Lewis Raven Wallace in Truthout is excellent, and goes a long way towards explaining both why I get absolutely nauseous when American political figures mewl about political violence only when it affects one of their own, and also why I adamantly believe you cannot be an antifascist without being anti-police and against the carceral industrial complex in America (and the rest of the Pig Empire.)

Police Violence Is Also Political Violence — and Deeply Normalized in the US

https://truthout.org/articles/police-violence-is-also-political-violence-and-deeply-normalized-in-the-us/

"Biden’s speech renders invisible a crucial reality: the sun rises and sets over an America in which a different form of political violence – police violence – is normalized in every sense of the word. The grief and rage of countless families and communities sits in the darkness of that reality. The World Health Organization defines political violence as “the deliberate use of power and force to achieve political goals.” As we search for explanations for increasingly visible examples of political violence, we must acknowledge that the problem we face as a nation is not merely one of polarization or an overheated populus. It is a problem at the roots, in the very seeds and the daily sunlight of how this country functions."

As the article goes on to point out, we're talking about a country that is currently abetting, supplying, and funding an ongoing genocide in Gaza, and a place where we don't even keep proper statistics on how many people American murderpig cops kill. These are both, by any reasonable definition examples of "political violence" and yet the very same people clutching their pearls and telling you not to talk about Trump being a fascist anymore because some nazi took a shot at the head nazi in an example of fascist on fascist violence, never so much as utter a word about *that* political violence. You're damn right it's normalized, but that word almost seems insufficient to describe how political violence against anyone who isn't rich and important is swept away without so much as a word; that violence is more or less "invisible" and beneath the concerns of our ruling class. Despite the fact that it's ubiquitous:

"Only nine days so far this year have been free of a police-perpetrated killing in the United States. The last such day was April 22. And no day has been free of the routinized, racialized violence of policing."

And I can hear some of you rumbling in the back that policing isn't political, even those of you who acknowledge the violence inherent in American murderpigs and policing, but the truth is that all that accomplishes is telling me you don't understand what police actually do or what their purpose is in a capitalist society, and that you probably haven't ever been on the receiving end of "policing" - probably because of either your skin color, socio-economic class, or both. As the author notes however, this is a fantasy on which the whole damn fascist system hinges:

"The violence of policing forms the foundation on which all of this country’s structures of order and “security” are built. Indeed the U.S.’s current policing system traces its origins in part to the earliest days of colonial slave states, when “slave patrols,” groups of white citizens, were empowered and paid by the government to chase down and capture enslaved Black people who had escaped, to terrorize and seize weaponry from Black slaves to ensure they did not organize a rebellion, and to enforce the extrajudicial rule of law that subjected Black people in the South to summary punishment without trial.

Modern police forces arose only after the end of slavery, and their primary task was the protection of property and power. From the 1877 police terror targeting striking railroad workers, to police participation and complicity in lynchings throughout the Jim Crow era, police in the U.S. have always enacted violence with explicitly political purposes. They have aimed to control the righteous rebellion of enslaved people, to repress uprisings among workers, and to protect the concentration of wealth among a small group of elites. They have facilitated white political power and violently pushed back lines of protesters insisting on the right to participate in the country’s political systems without risking life and limb.

Even seemingly randomized acts of police violence serve to maintain a political order, chilling dissent and suppressing protest through fear by making clear Black, Brown and Indigenous, and other targeted groups of people risk scrutiny and possible violence for simply going out in public."

You should read the rest of the piece, but I just want you to know that when you get mad at me for refusing to cry when a nazi takes a shot at Downmarket Mussolini, I see the political violence *you* don't cry about, and it tells me a lot about who you are and what you believe. And whether you like it or not, so do other victims of that violence.

#Fascism #Policing #Antifascism #Murderpigs

Police Violence Is Also Political Violence — and Deeply Normalized in the US

The threat of state-sanctioned violence is so constant in the US that it doesn’t even make the headlines.

Truthout