ICE raided a restaurant in San Diego. ICE tossed two flash bangs at the crowd.
ICE raids South Park's Buona Forchetta, draws angry crowd outside popular restaurant
I'm going to make some grim predictions.
Libs: "What do you mean you're not doing divinatory magic? WTF is 'pattern recognition'?!"
If ICE/cops are charged with some kind of token offense - it will be for entirely unimportant misdemeanors.
They'll be charged with property damage because stray bullets broke some windows. Chuds will froth at the mouth and be outraged
Normal cops do that shit all the time, they almost never get personally charged.
Maybe local property owners win a lawsuit against the local police, after 2 years, but then its just the city paying the insurance companies, meaning everyone is taxed for this... and the cops administrative leave paid vacation was only a couple weeks, maybe a month, they've been back at their job for over a year by the time the lawsuit finishes.
Local property owners could try to sue... ICE? DHS? ... If they can figure out who these guys are?
... And then that gets laughed out of court at some level, potentially the Supreme Court.
This is full military police state shit, I'd be amazed if there is any kind of accountability, in any legal sense, for any of this.... as our entire legal system is in the process of more or less cannibalizing itself right now.
Everyone in America should gun down these terrorists on sight, what if that exploded near a baby?
business as usual
Family of Toddler Injured by SWAT 'Grenade' Faces $1M in Medical Bills
The description of what they did to that baby is horrifying. A baby, split down to raw muscle and bone in a pool of it's own blood abducted by the police to try and save their own hide. There is no penalty harsh enough for someone who would disfigure a baby like that.
Family of Toddler Injured by SWAT 'Grenade' Faces $1M in Medical Bills
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if something like this happens again and some chud thinks it's antifa supersoldiers launching a "make everyone a gay trans cat girl OwO" attack and starts firing back into the crowd while blinded.
South Park is a dense, extremely residential area. Buona Forchetta is arguably the most popular pizza restaurant in San Diego. This was an early Friday summer evening. They knew the place would be busy, they knew the neighborhood would be busy. They wanted it to turn into this. Barbaric.
https://bsky.app/profile/nicoleinabox.bsky.social/post/3lqie4rorrc2n
Communists: “we have to radicalize people.”
ICE: “hold my beer.”
More like "EVERYONE PUT THE DRINKS DOWN AND GET ON THE GROUND!"
If we had a real opposition party in this country, they'd be quietly prepping to abolish ICE as soon as they have the presidency and even a slim congressional majority.
They won't, and it will be the biggest act of self-sabotage since they gleefully stripped back all the COVID expansions to the welfare state.
Dems even campaign on giving ICE an increased budget, then wonder why they lose
Dems were all like "Trump is giving ICE CRAZY amounts of money!" (and he was)
Then Joe upped their budget every year
The vapid fascist enablers are sitting at home twiddling their fingers just waiting for the day they regain power so they can do literally nothing to change anything Trump did back and pretend like they're going to punish him for his treason. They're part of the same team, there is no Left in American politics.
In a better world every member of ICE would get the wall
Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
https://bsky.app/profile/chadloder.bsky.social/post/3lqgzk2ocr227
In another thread - somebody wonders about the patches.
https://bsky.app/profile/letsgomathias.bsky.social/post/3lqht5sini22w
Another comment about the patches
https://bsky.app/profile/alyssaharad.bsky.social/post/3lqhufggql22z
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Ninja edit
I'll say one thing for reddit - at least it's easy to quote-link stuff. Everybody at Bluesky quote-posts for maximum likes and it gets super-annoying for me to figure out what info is in what tab I have open at the time.
Well hey there ya go, literal brown shirts.
EDIT:
Also... I believe the guy on the right has a Sig Sauer MPX... 9mm (or 357 sig, or 40 cal), full auto capable, not sure if this particular one is integrally suppressed or the suppressor is attached...
US Army is an offical MPX user, but concievably any large scale US Federal LE, or even SWAT team or police department could use them as well, as well as basically just any LE person that can get a class 3 NFA due to their position.
Guy on the left seems to have a non standard issue pistol. Fancy grip and magwell, flared out duckbill ... could be a customized M17? Not sure.
The grenade launcher he has is often used for crowd control: tear gas rounds, flash bang rounds, smoke, etc, they could have come out of this thing.
I got no fucking clue what that patch design is.
EDIT 2
Also possibly worth mentioning:
A fun way you can tell they are dressed for maximum intimidation effect?
Helmets, all tricked out, earpro/radios, eyepro, face masks... but no serious body armor.
They're both just wearing minimal chest rigs, which probably (?) have kevlar in them, but theres very little area actually protected... they'd maybe stop a pistol round or two, not a rifle round though.
They don't even have kneepads.
This is the kit you choose if you expect basically no armed resistance, but want to move fast and look very scary.
An actual raid against people you'd expect armed resistance from... they'd have more serious body armor.
EDIT 3:
At the rate things are going, I would not be surprised if within a month or two, these guys start rolling in with LRADs mounted... you know, the directed sound weapon things we invented to do crowd control in Iraq.
They may already be on some of their vehicles, just haven't used them yet.
EDIT 4:
Total guess on the patches?
E ## is either 'Extraction Team Member ##' or possibly 'Echo Team Member ##'... if its the latter, that just means there's multiple different teams, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, etc...
But that is a total guess.
Still no fucking clue on the insignia.
LRADs mounted... you know, the directed sound weapon things we invented to do crowd control in Iraq.
Something something imperialism something something fascism turned inwards
literally who gives a fuck what specific guns/gear the nazis are using? how could you possibly convince yourself that that matters?
I hope something bad happens to Mr "all due respect" up there
I think they're saying it to a positive way to the person who posted the video. Iow, what's being done by the people is working and this is an example of ICE being forced to escalating in response.
eh, idk i didn't post the clip as a dunk. this poster (who isn't a mr. btw) might overstate the position a bit, there's definitely a lot of police overreach here and these fascists will increasingly be looking for the excuse to use their kit, but they've been raiding businesses for months in increasingly brazen fashion and in basically all cases they haven't drawn a crowd big enough to count as that excuse for use of force. i think i land somewhere in the middle; it may not be "mass spontaneous resistance" yet, but people are slowly getting more agitated about this bullshit, and the fascists are scared of that turning into mass resistance, and so they're gonna start overreaching more often.
They have names. They have homes. They have human lives.
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Everyone's upset and we should be but this is a mistake. This is the kind of unpopular escalation that if repeated gets spread around in raw videos online and turns more people on the side-lines against them.
As Malcolm X said, those chickens are going to eventually come home to roost.
these guys definitely need another 150 billion dollars
I wonder how much state-of-the-art hardcore military hardware they'll buy. I wouldn't be surprised if ICE's official statement includes a middle finger to the public by way of pop culture references. They say they need the matériel for "urban pacification" in text that sounds like it could have appeared in movies like RoboCop.
but what about Israel
Nuremberg all these ICE terrorists. Or just toss them in
They deserve all the
and .Death to Amerikkka.
Hopefully next time someone in the crowd tosses some hot lead back
This thread has video - https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3lqhwqeqgus2w
People are saying there is no resistance, but here you have unarmed white suburbanites spontaneously pushing back against a heavily militarized force. That's a pretty good start.
Urbanites technically
NBC 7 San Diego:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LwOkSp936xI
CBS 8 San Diego:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_fF1BIU1q3M
This video has a few interesting snippets... an actual detonation of a flash bang, more shots of more guys with more gear...
I can make out one with a paintball gun, these are also commonly used for crowd control with 'pepper' rounds...
yellow 'POLICE' and 'DETENTION OFFICER' on some guys... could be ICE, could be local PD, Sheriffs, not sure...
There do seem to be two different kinds of dress.
The guys with 'POLICE' and such are less geared up... they have what may be a general DHS shoulder patch... then you've got all the guys in tac helmets and tac vests, they've all got the same mystery (fascii?) patch, in different color schemes, same pattern though, all with E ## as well.
Ah ok, near the end, the 'POLICE' guys can be seen from the front, POLICE HSI.
That'd make them these guys:
https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi
We shield our nation from global threats...
Uh, huh. A guy named Santiago working in a kitchen is #1 threat. Maybe he's not actually chopping vegetables. He could be involved in drug and weapons smuggling, cyber and financial crime, illegal technology exports and intellectual property crime.
HSI conducts federal criminal investigations into the illegal movement of people, goods, money, contraband, weapons and sensitive technology into, out of and through the United States. HSI’s investigations are wide ranging – our cases include drug and weapons smuggling, cyber and financial crime, illegal technology exports and intellectual property crime. We also play a crucial role in investigating crimes of exploitation. This includes combating child exploitation, human trafficking, financial fraud and scams and other crimes against vulnerable populations.
Also - their fucking chutzpah - "crimes against vulnerable populations."
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Easy read summary ::: spoiler spoiler ICE Raided a Restaurant in San Diego. ICE Tossed Two Flash Bangs at the Crowd.
Immigration officers swarmed a restaurant late Friday afternoon in South Park, escorting two employees out in a raid that left the staff deeply shaken.
Usually Buona Forchetta has customers waiting out front, lined up to enter the popular Beech Street restaurant.
Instead, after an hour-and-15 minute operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the jittery crowd wasn’t waiting for Italian food.
Both the main restaurant and their smaller place next door were broken into and witnesses said when the group of officers tried to remove two workers, they met a hostile response.
ICE officers tossed two flash bangs to back the crowd off.
The restaurant’s manager, Renato Ametrano, described what happened, saying the ICE officers showed “up with no explanation.”
He said there were about 20-25 officers who “surrounded the building and then came inside” pushing him against the wall and handcuffing him.
They frightened the workers, many of them students, Ametrano said, describing ICE personnel as “very aggressive” while handcuffing other members of the staff.
He said the officers were looking at a computer and at workers.
Instead, they took two workers, said Ametrano, because “they didn’t have a physical ID.”
Ametrano said only ICE officers were involved, not San Diego police.
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