Armed agents in tactical gear threw flash-bang grenades to disperse a crowd in Los Angeles’s Fashion District. Later, agents fired less-than-lethal ammunition at protesters outside a detention center.

Closest headline that I’ve seen explaining what actually appears to be happening.

More accurate might be intentionally trampling protesters with horses, shooting with (hopefully) rubber bullets at close range, and beating with clubs

I think this is the same woman:

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1l6wtet/spread_like_fire_also/

Apparently those videos are from yesterday! I’m seeing news reports about protestors setting cars on fire/agitators, but why is nobody reporting this? They shot that lady in the fucking head!

  • andyburke@fedia.io
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    8 days ago

    Our city was peaceful before ICE showed up at home depots that were also perfectly peaceful. I’ve been to that home depot a couple dozen times, I never once had a problem. It wasn’t unsafe, it was perfectly fine, including the people looking for work. Trump is causing this, not helping anything.

  • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
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    8 days ago

    When are Americans going to start suicide bombing? America’s government produced that in other countries and now they seem like they are trying to get it started here. We need more war on “terror”. /S

    • Tehbaz@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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      8 days ago

      They knew in November 2024 that a second Trump term would result in a police state, yet millions either chose to vote for the orange fuckhead or stayed home. So they’re getting exactly what they wanted.

      • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
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        8 days ago

        I think that’s the narrative they want you to believe, but I think the truth is society is manipulated. And I’m not sure if it’s like the CIA or FBI… Or the Vatican, or freemasons… They all have a history of working with organized crime and commiting crime. What happened to that 3 trillion dollars that was stolen from the military years ago… Sounds like enough money to use to psychologically move society into a certain direction.

        There is no left and right anymore… It’s honest genuine human souls vs criminals. And that goes from the streets to the president. It’s all the same evil from the streets to the mainstream. When you understand the criminal mindset and the ideology of “the game” then it’s like it’s all blatantly in the open. I know it sounds stupid saying the game… Like how rappers brag about the game… But it’s the same lawless game from the street to the president and crime is intertwined into everything.

        During covid and BLM social issues I felt like it was a psy op to get get gays and minorities to move to cities to consolidate them. It feels like this is the second stage… Something real is going on beyond left and right politics, it’s more as if the entirety of our system is being masterminded and manipulated. Not just the government but marketing and media too.

        Check out “the century of self” documentary, it’s about social manipulation and psychology in marketing and politics.

        There needs to be a massive awakening beyond pop political “wokeness” if humanity was to stay, or regain, a humanistic path.

        People need to break out of the manipulation whether they follow left or right politics and realize we are all played out.

        For example people shouldn’t just be saying ACAB they should be fucking with their local street criminals and gang members too. It’s all fascism in “the game”. It’s pyramid scheme. It’s all structured the same.

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          Decades of voter suppression + conservative propaganda + social media manipulation + never fucking holding any conservatives accountable leads to a vote where the absolute worst people are against those who haven’t completely given up hope on society but were still allowed to vote.

          Like watching Trump be forced onto state ballots despite trying to overthrow an election was soul crushing. Forcing myself to vote for Harris and pretend it meant anything positive was painful, it was just a futile attempt to not be exactly where we are today.

          Notice how there was absolutely zero follow up on the votes in the areas where the election deniers were running things? Notice how Trump didn’t get even the slightest slap on the write from 34 felonies? That is why he won, because the entire system is absolutely broken and the Dems as a party have no interest in fixing anything. Sure, a few have spines, but the majority want to play nice with 21st century fascists as if taking the high road ever solved anything.

          • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
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            8 days ago

            It’s beyond a broken system. Have you read about the kid that tried to assassinate trump. It sounds like he was like extorted or forced to commit it. I swear there’s a dark side of the government or a a criminal group in the government that pressures poor people, loners, and criminals to commit crimes for them. Like the guy that broke into pollosis home and hit her husband with a hammer…

            No one understands how dark life really is and how crime is completely intertwined everywhere right under our noses. Americans are indoctrinated to be naive escape via marketed consumerism to the point they barely ever experience what it truly means to be a genuine human being.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    You mean they respected noncombatants, the rules of engagement, and proportional response? No? They violated all of those? Then they were worse than a military response.