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Let that be a lesson. If you're going to get arrested for protesting against ICE, you may as well start killing them. It's the same punishment anyway.
They might even kill you in the first place so you won't ever need to serve the sentence
This is insane
In a statement, Song said he had fired at the police officer, Lt Thomas Gross, because Gross had his weapon drawn and Song believed he was about to shoot a protester.
"I never want to see good people, standing for what they believe in, gunned down in the street," he said. "Now 21 people have been arrested, have been persecuted, have been punished. For knowing me or being my friend?
This is wrong. This is mass punishment.
One got 100 years?
WTAF? So, these guys get harsh sentences, but the terrorists that assaulted the Capitol are treated as "patriots" by the asshats sitting in the WH right now?
This country is so fucked.
It’s always been like this. The fbi and cia hunted down the civil rights leaders and the vast majority of the kkk and southern lunch mob terrorists we’re able to hold positions of power with zero consequences. The only time the working class and oppressed minority groups were ever able to gain rights and privileges was through force and overwhelming multilateral solidarity.
Yes it’s a war. Maybe we should all recognize that.
Now we know the kinds of sentences to hand down when we re-try the Jan 6 Insurrectionists.
That's a lot of hope for the future of a failing nation.
So basically protesting against ICE is worse than raping children in USA.
“antifa”, which is not an organization but rather a constellation of leftwing views.
Sorry, being anti fascist is not leftist. It's everything other than being on the far right
And with that, it's complete. The United States is not dying - it's dead. The government is under the control of open fascists, the rule of law is a thing of the past, democracy is dead and the Constitution has been wadded up and thrown away.
They'll be bulldozing corpses into mass graves before long.
They’ll be bulldozing corpses into mass graves before long.
Already are just not in plain sight yet
Nah, in Gaza they're making the Palestinians do it by hand.
My ancestors/people would take issue with that. They've been found in mass graves in the US and Canada for decades upon decades. Camps and mass graves are always the ultimate resort of the state. Every continent, every era. Generally the average person is safe enough to not have to worry about finding themselves in one. Surely the state would never turn on them to serve itself. Surely.
They should release the body cam footage of the ICE officer. Something smells off.
Something's missing. Setting aside the 1 person who was violent. A jury of their peers convicted of others for what amounts to minor vandalism, and the sentence was decades in prison? Has the system completely failed citizens standing up for what's right?
It’s completely insane. I know that prison terms are decided by the judges (within the windows of their charges), but I cannot for the life of me believe that 8 or however many ‘impartial’ jurors decided that terrorism charges for 50, 70, and 100 years were OK. There’s just no fucking way.
A murder charge gets you at max 99 years in Texas. The guy who shot the officer didn’t even kill him. There’s evidence that was withheld from the court that the officer drew first.
I cannot believe so many people in this country and around the world are OK with outright tyranny. I might as well be a separate species than them
It's Texas...
That requires enough of the citizens to not be absolute sheep. The loudest most confident people are often some of the dumbest and unfortunately most influential. Even on juries.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Reading the article, the guy who shot an officer with an AK probably should get time while the people who were just setting off fireworks and slashing tires, probably a misdemeanor, all things equal. (It being a government vehicle might count it as a felony, though IANAL).
The part that should disturb people isn't their arrest, but the upcharge to terrorism, which frankly has been a potential problem we've had since Bush era politics but only now getting utilized in this way. That changes due process, and if they continue to push for those types of charges, that's a problem and patriot act era laws absolutely need to get reversed if we're to ever really be safe.
That said, just to clarify those who only read the headline: this isn't the administration just targeting political opponents and calling them antifa to get them arrested. They got arrested for crimes like vandalism and assault and the antifa terrorism crap was tagged on. You're still mostly safe to participate in peaceful protests, so continue putting on pressure.
I don't know if they mentioned it in this article but the guy shot an officer after they pointed their gun at a protester. After the other murders by ICE it could definitely be argued it was defensive, and that they had weapons, which is a constitutional right (especially in Texas), to defend against potential far-right attackers.
Daily reminder that not everything you feel needs to be put into messages or posted on the internet. Practice good OPSEC if you're participating in any sort of lawful gathering. Your freedom of speech extends to what you choose not to say.
Woah.
The USA is a Nazi occupied state and all who support the current regime are complicit in its actions
Huh, the article doesn't mention how many years the officer who almost shot the unarmed protestors got..
Fascism.
Elect a Democrat and pardon them all like Traitor Trump did for 1,500 insurrectionists.
The democrat is more likely to issue blanket pardons to trump and company in hopes of “moving forward” in a spirit of bipartisan good will.
It sickens me that you're probably right. That asswipe will never see a day in prison even though he and others in his administration deserve it so much.
Biden pardoned the kids for cash judge.
It's not left vs right, it's the global corporatists vs a very divided 'everyone else.'
Well, if exersing your First Amendment rights gets you fifty years, might as well exercise your Second Amendment rights...
Good news! The President only just recently set aside $1.8b worth of taxpayer dollars just for the defense of people who were unfairly prosecuted by the governm-- oh, shit... The fine print here says here that money's only available if you're THE perfectly Instagramable PR show-dog for the current administration and their anti-democratic, fascist shit-show.
Well, you know, when tyranny becomes law...
I often wonder what happened to the 1200 people that they "lost track of" at Alligator Auschwitz.
edit: source: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/25/alligator_alcatraz
Make your shots count people. 50 years from now odds are I'm dead anyway.