Picture from Saturday's protest at the Portland ICE facility. An agent fixed his 40mm launcher at my head twice, despite me very obviously being a photographer.

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[–] rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

To be fair, most cities are still like the ad. Yeah, there's an undercurrent of tension that wasn't there two years ago, but the majority of areas are not seeing ICE activity. People are going to work and school and not talking about this stuff. It's crazy how people can compartmentalize.

I don't think they'll ever have enough gravy seals to deploy everywhere at once. Think about how many people they would need just to cover all fifty capitol cities (which typically aren't even the biggest cities in the state). They can only patrol one or two large cities at a time, it seems, and look how much pushback they get.

It's all over the media, and it should be, but don't look at photos like that and think it's on every street corner or even every city in the US.