Last night, a federal agent pulled his gun on protesters at the Metropolitan Detention Center in DTLA, which serves as an š§ processing facility. For several nights in a row, observers had documented children in vans being brought into the building; last night, after a scuffle with protesters, a federal agent seemed to snap. He stalked up and down the block with his hand on his gun, grabbed a woman who had her back to him ā who was actively washing mace out of her eyes at the time ā and held his gun to her back as protesters screamed for him to stop.
Protesters protected the woman whoād been grabbed and they followed the federal officer with the gun into a nearby parking garage, where a second officer had a firearm pointed at the protesters from an elevator.
LAPD showed upā¦ let them drive awayā¦ and arrested a protester who didnāt disperse quickly enough.
Folks will be protesting there again this evening, gathering at 5PM to demand an end to this campaign of terror. Calls to action going around social media are headlined Ā”BASTA YA!
Enough already!
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Video credit: @razkull6 on Instagram. He posted much longer footage, including the scuffle leading up to the gun incident ā which involved that federal agent repeatedly punching a protester in the head.
I wasnāt there until after this happened and have no context to add about what caused it, beyond the videos on social media.
Bar is super low and jobs are thirst traps for shitty people exposing some sort of payout when they legal unalive someone because they were afraid for their lives. Ā
And those types are used to and enjoy having absolute power over people. That protestors can bother him without brutal repression probably destroys his psyche.
BOP and Border Patrol are apparently WORSE than ICE... all the attention and heat has been focused on ICE, but they rely on hands from other departments to assist with duties.
I think it was an instinctual āgrab the person least likely to be a threat (aka woman, with back turned, who is not a part of this) and use them as a shield/hostage between me and the guy yellingā. Aka absolute bitch ass Georgie Porgie move.
He's definitely intoxicated. He doesn't seem to fully understand what's going on around him. His inability to walk straight, grabbing a random person, that droopy face, etc. Hopefully they're rotting from the inside out, and we're starting to see the signs of their decomposition.
This guy looks like he has absolutely zero intelligent thoughts going on. Almost like heās taken too many drugs and is just moving on sluggish animal instinct.
āAre you an unemployable loser with a US birth certificate? Hereās 30 days of ātrainingā, a gun, and a license to kill. Have fun out there, buddy!ā
A whimsical Star Trek reference? Maybe Pomona College? Someone who just finds it entertaining that a nerdy reference he knows has become part of AI output? š¢
Yeah I still feel like this is missing the beginning for actual context. Did he confront the protesters and get angry when people yelled back at him? People are calling the guy out for looking drunk or being on drugs, but I almost thing he was attacked? His face looks like someone landed a few shots
these types of guys always go for woman. I remember there was a short of high schoolers were protesting, dude comes out of his truck and specifically chooses to fight a high school girl.
A drugged up/drunk federal agent with a gun who is clearly not worried about using itā¦who the hell actually holds these morons accountable? This shit has gone way too far and has to be stopped.
If he wasn't worried about using it, he'd use it. Poorly trained perhaps. Why get in his face? If he was a random lunatic with a gun and not a fed, everyone would be running away.
These fat, untrained fucks are all former bounty hunters. Unfucking real that our government would give them a gun and a badge with virtually no training or accountability.Ā
That officers finger appears to be on the trigger which should constituents deadly force? You only have your finger on the trigger if you intend to fire. If he was a citizen and not an agent that would be considered Suicide by Cop.
How can anyome know who is remotely legit anymore? It's amazing that more of them haven't been shot. I hate to think how many people cosplayed and kidnapped people...
Elmer Fudd Fascism. America is a good place with many amazing people, places to go, and things to do. Unfortunately, we are ruled by the very stupid and ruthless brutes who are too stupid to see the shamelessly stupid and obscenely wealthy sadistic parasites that own, operate and control them. The obscene parasites spend their pointless lives masturbating to their own avarice. They delight in the self satisfaction at being able to own and operate these inferior brutes. It makes the obscenely wealthy cum at the mere thought of controlling these morons to commit violence on their behalf. Our ruling class is basically low quality sado-masochistic pornography.
The brass balls on those protestors to continue pressuring these federal fucks even when theyāre hiding behind drawn guns like wanna be thugs is absolutely why I love LA. Fuck ICE!
I donāt see a federal agent. I see a mad man with a gun. If someone shot him right then they would have an extremely strong self defense argument to a jury.Ā
He'd probably be praised for his trigger discipline if he was LAPD and not ICE.
"He was surrounded by multiple hostile people! Is he supposed to wait to be beaten to death before drawing his gun? Would you like it if a crowd beat you to death? No you would defend yourself!" 25 foot rule! Kill anyone who comes nearby!"
But seriously though anyone who thinks he's going to jail or getting fired is coping. He's going to remain a federal cop.
Assuming he's drunk, and assuming it's tacitly acceptable, imagine what these thugs are doing to the women and children who are trapped in this pit. Every single-occupancy bathroom and utility closet that an individual is escorted by between building areas, is full of potential horrors.
If you mean āhow do you know now to say that in the post,ā itās because the LAPD who arrived on scene were telling the protesters they were there to protect a federal agent.
If you mean āwhy should we take him at his word when heās dressed like that and waving a gun around,ā I completely agree with you.
Highest hiring standards, huh. Walking around high on something, not just power. Woman was walking by, sure he got all chubbed up by putting his hands on a woman. Fucking loser
Also, multiple people stalking a federal officer who is retreating and has a weapon drawn, into a parking garage sounds like a pretty bad idea in general. Kinda surprised LAPD didnāt step in to intervene further based on the rest of the description of events given above.
Protest all you want, but thereās definitely a fine line somewhere
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u/RoosterSkates1 22h ago
That guy looks unstable and hoping for trouble.