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Longer clip with reporter asking the question: https://i.imgur.com/OGhUdEk.mp4

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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 40 points 13 hours ago

A government employee that can just execute people with impunity seems... tyrannical.

Like even if theyre executing people you dont like surely Americans who have made "freedom" a key part of their identity have to acknowledge that this isn't the way.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 hours ago

By telling these thugs that they have absolute immunity, he's encouraging violence.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 46 points 15 hours ago

Hold on, he might be on to something here... Time to become an ICE agent and put the limits of that "absolute immunity" to the test.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 41 points 15 hours ago

"Legitimate law enforcement operations", and I'm putting extra emphasis on the word legitimate, have a specific target with a warrant for their arrest by a judge or district attorney in the jurisdiction of the operation. They follow the laws themselves and give proper rights to the apprehended individual such as contact with their lawyer, habeas corpus, holding time limitations, etc.

That's not what ICE does. ICE are a bunch of criminal thugs going after anyone and everyone. Some of them can barely read or write, and they're going out shooting people to death in the streets.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yale should be dissolved for giving this nazi a law degree

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Absolute immunity you say?

Sounds like the brownshirts get a blank cheque to do whatever they want. Maybe they can start smashing shop windows and kicking protestors on the ground now.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

According to JD Vance ICE is bulletproof someone should test that

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Are they immune to lead poisoning?

[–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago

We should test it out.

[–] krigo666@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago

Shut up, Dunce. You're not drunk, you're just plain stupid.