Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city, obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
I’m a Marine Corp veteran, trained by LEOs when I served in US embassies on how to handle unruly individuals or protestors.
1) If you are the guys with guns, you are the ones responsible for the situation. Doubly so if you outnumber the person you’re engaging.
2) You do not need to use force except to control the situation in order to deescalate it. Minimal force required.
3) You are NOT here to look for excuses to use more force. Even if the person gives you an excuse which “justifies” using force, that doesn’t mean using force is de facto the right move.
4) “Let the other person retreat” often resolves the situation just fine! Don’t surround people, back them up against a wall, etc. Your job is to control the situation. “I put myself stupidly in danger” is not an excuse to escalate “because I’m in danger.”
5) People will feed off of your energy. If you come rolling up like a fascist thug ready to break skulls, people will meet you at that level. If you show up calm, professional, and having a friendly chat, often that brings the temperature down.
Everything I see from ICE agents is they are relishing violence and exercising power, needlessly escalating situations, looking for opportunities to shoot their weapons and beat the shit out of people.
Tim Miller: “I will not be fucking gaslit by these people. I will not tone down the rhetoric. Jonathan Ross murdered her. She talked to him calmly, said dude I’m not mad. This is fucking insane. This is not a tough call. He orphaned her child and called her a fucking bitch after he killed her. Do not let Donald Trump, and JD Vance, and Kristi Noem, and these thugs try to convince you this is anything other than murder”
@EricLDaugh What Jimmy here leaves out is that if the agent is that on edge- what the fuck is he doing out there!? Seems like it’s an admission that there is some negligence
@JDVance You’re talking about dishonesty. You and your boss are being dishonest about what the public saw with their own eyes.
Explain to me Jim, the feet placement in this pic of the agent that killed the woman in MN- his SECOND shot. And he was “hospitalized and luck to be alive?”
@PressSec Google is free. And you can see real data, rather than listening to people like this pushing their agenda. They are preying on your laziness and know you’ll “believe it because I said it…”
And “smart people don’t like me much…”
@ClayTravis Such a fucking clown. And a fraud.
You don’t believe half the shit you say. You say it just to make a buck.
Anyone that heard you before you turned into this sellout “content for hire,” knows the real deal.
@SecWar I love where you refer to yourself in the third person, by using the made up title of “Sec of War.” And you, without question, got yourself a little lady boner when you did it.
Yes, in 2016, Pete Hegseth stated on multiple occasions that U.S. service members have a duty to refuse unlawful orders. For example, on Fox News, he said, "The military’s not gonna follow illegal orders," in reference to potential commands from then-candidate Trump. Sources include CNN and archived videos.
@KyleBrandt Unexpectedly- this kind, old(er) woman that sits next to me at Vikings games leaned over and said “that was AN ANGRY RUN!!!”
Safe to say, she’s a fan.