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ICE Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver Picking Up Injured Portland Protester, Medics Say

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ICE Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver Picking Up Injured Portland Protester, Medics Say - Lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/81808 [https://ibbit.at/post/81808] > From Common Dreams [https://www.commondreams.org/] via this RSS feed [https://www.commondreams.org/feeds/news.rss]

Oct 14 at 5:38pmWeb
Show threadKoboldCoterieOct 14
This shit is just a powder keg waiting to go off. All it’s going to take is one person to decide they’ve had enough of this in a situation like this and just floor it and run those assholes over and the whole country is going to explode. It’s just a matter of time.
Show threadThrowawayOnLemmyOct 14
Exactly as Stephen Miller planned.
Show threadorbitzOct 14
I hope people at the No King’s Protest will all understand escalation is their goal, of course there’s a chance Yam Tits will make a royal decree that they’re all to be arrested to spark the powder keg. Which will happen cause Wormtongue, I mean Miller, says so cause evidently everything pro democracy is an insurrection in the US now.
Show threadGhostalmediaOct 14
They want a Reichstag fire.
Show threadLucidlethargyOct 15
Yeah I can’t believe so many are fighting Trump by not fighting in this way. Genuinely impressed with my countrymen.
Show threadKoboldCoterieOct 15
Yep, meanwhile on Lemmy we have people who don’t seem to understand what’s going on posting shit like “You all need to fight back! I thought you had guns to protect against situations like this!” The restraint people are showing by not doing that is frankly unbelievable.
Show threadSchmooOct 16
Meanwhile it is a regular occurrence for right-wing dipshits to run their trucks through crowds of protestors and get away with little to no consequences. They end up being classified as “road-rage” incidents rather than the politically motivated acts of terrorism that they are.
Show threadhopesdeadOct 14
Okay, what if it was someone in ICE they are responding to? Do they deny the compassion to heal wounded people just because they think a EMT might pick political sides?
Show threadShigglesOct 14

They would 100% do that if the roles were reversed, and thus they assume that yes, the EMTs would.

It is very difficult sometimes to remember these are people, too. Tells you a lot about how fucking stupid we can be.

Show threadhopesdeadOct 14
We should strive to be better people, despite how much we dislike the organization or the people in it.
Show threadTarquinn2049Oct 14
Yeah, they think we are lying when we say we don’t want to hurt them, even though we disagree with them. There is a reason they always think they are being threatened, cuz they would be threatening if they were in the same position, so they see our actions through that filter.
Show threadwatsonOct 14
They are also fed a steady diet of lies about “left-wing terrorists”.
Show threadoctopus_inkOct 14
Are we still pretending our Trump supporting neighbors aren’t cheering this on?
Show threadObliviousEnlightenmentOct 14
I know I stopped years ago
Show threadcorsicanguppyOct 14

The national shitbag registry needs to be kept by whatever unions manage EMTs . These officers need to identify themselves just so their names are placed on the list and their captain can begin negotiating so that their families and home EVER get protection from fire, ambulance or cops again.

Until then, NO identified ICE member or their family gets support. Identify yourselves to distinguish yourselves or all face the same penalty. This is a targeted labour strike.

(Similarly, anyone impeding a real emergency vehicles gets on the list until a formal written apology replaces it in the file)

You do not impede real emergency vehicles just because you need to beat up and kidnap brown people.

Show threadfloofloofOct 15
I do like the idea of a National Shitbag Registry, so when these people move to a new neighborhood they have to go door to door warning the neighbors that they are a registered shitbag.
Show threadsqozenodeOct 15
I don’t get the logic of slowing down with people in the way. You’re in a heavy ambulance, they’ll move.
Show threadfloofloofOct 15
Well, if you go faster than they can move, you maim or kill them. Slowing down and keeping moving is how you get them to move. And although ICE may deserve what they get, an ambulance driver is probably not into hurting people with the ambulance.
Show threadbetanumerusOct 15
You’re in an ambulance, it’s your job to pick up the pieces. WTF are you on.
Show threadPissingIntoTheWindOct 16
Time for hundreds of gun owners to show up at these protests.
Show threadkreskinOct 16
They never show up for anything, except to strut around playing billy badass. They are completely useless LARPers
Show threadbstixOct 16
Makes sense. They buy guns because they’re scared of people.
Show threadSabinStargemOct 16
As I mentioned on Bluesky: This is not just evil, but also dumb. Medics will not treat ICE personnel if they are endangered by just doing their job. The point of the social contract is that everyone works together to ensure that all people get to live a decent life. Abusing the doctors is a good way to be removed from the census, because they have better people to spend their efforts on.
Show threadfloofloofOct 16
The notion of a social contract is a little beyond these dumb fascists.
Show threadkreskinOct 16

Theres that Israeli training american “law enforcement” officers are so famous for taking. Along with their fame for not being required to understand the law at all and US law enforcement not hiring anyone with too high of an IQ.

The most surprising thing about US cops is how many tv shows there are that make them look like hard working, intelligent heros who just care about the community and have a deep sense of honor. Frickin joke.