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I personally wanted to take down this post for false information but the good people in the comment section already disproved this in a very good way, so I will leave it up to honour their efforts
Sure, this isn’t real. But it couldn’t ever be real. Follow me:
“Hey, he isn’t actually ICE” “No, you aren’t” “What about him, he’s not ICE” … “Hold on guys, we can figure who is truly ICE. One at a time we will each say the N word out loud.”
Protesters likely immediately outed.
a true protester would not allow themselves to be outed so easily
I don’t like the practice of lib jacketing, and his heart is in the right place, but come on my dude
This shit is serious get tf offline do something
oh my god, no one is doing this.
“walking into groups of ice agents” What a ridiculous basement dweller fantasy.
The “group of ice agents” almost certainly know and recognize each other.
The guys with their face always covered and which are hiring left and right? The very smart and situationally aware agents?
I assume they have like a little black swastika somewhere on them and change it up every day.
Nice astroturf. Keep it going because anybody stupid enough to try this is safer in custody for trying to pull a Dean Winchester than loose ready to pull another Joshua Jahn.
Ice have no badge on display, many have no identification, and wear masks. That’s like saying everyone in a city is impersonating a federal officer because an officer is undercover.
Yes, any reasonable law-respecting ICE officer would recognize you’ve done nothing wrong and let you go.
Extra info for people with below-average reading comprehension:
No ICE officer is reasonable and law-respecting. I am implying that Blue_Morpho’s comment is functionally useless even though it is true, because they will do what they want regardless of the law or what is reasonable.
There is a high chance people who try this will be beaten up or put in a concentration camp for months even if they are legally innocent.
How would this be a Dean Winchester thing to do?
Regularly impersonates federal officers?
Oh that part. Sam (and other people in their orbit) does that too though so I was looking for why Dean in particular. Alright :)
This claim appears to be completely unsubstantiated.
I can find evidence of ICE operations in Minneapolis, protesters monitoring ICE activity, and even instances of people impersonating ICE agents. What I cannot find is any credible evidence for the very specific story being circulated here: protesters supposedly disguising themselves in tactical gear, infiltrating groups of ICE agents, accusing individual agents of being impostors, causing the agents to start fighting one another, and then escaping. There are no identified incidents, dates, locations, police reports, videos, or reputable news reports corroborating it.
The original post itself is doing the classic social-media thing of saying “reportedly” without actually reporting who supposedly witnessed it or where it supposedly happened.
It’s entirely possible someone posted this as a joke or satire, but there’s nothing in the screenshot indicating that it’s satire, and people are clearly sharing it as though it were a real tactic that is “happening nationwide.”
So, unless someone can produce actual evidence of an incident, this should be treated as an unsupported claim, not a factual account of ICE protests. The fact that Patton Oswalt is sarcastically asking people not to share it doesn’t magically make the underlying claim true either.
The entire point is that it’s fake. The point of spreading it, is that it causes paranoia within ICE. People will start suspecting each other if they see someone they don’t recognize. And because it’s entirely fake nobody (besides the ICE agents) is at risk.
What? No… Just the ice agents? What about the people that might actually try this?
It’s not unfeasible that someone may try this, but it’s a statement of what is “allegedly” happening and not a call to action. And Patton Oswald is not encouraging people to do it, but encouraging people to spread the rumor around.
I also hope, perhaps naively, that anybody that does have thoughts of actually trying this would do a little bit of research first, to find out where this is happening and try to see if there are any locals doing this that they can join. It would be much less effective for an individual to do this as opposed to a group who can fake legitimacy by vouching for each other if they’re called out. And also to avoid a situation similar to an undercover cop pretending to be a drug dealer trying to sell to an undercover cop pretending to be a drug user. If you pretend to be ICE and start pointing fingers at other people who are also pretending to be ICE, it very quickly defeats the whole purpose and leads to impersonator infighting. And all of this to say, in looking into things further to attempt to effectively do what is being claimed here, they would discover that it is a fabrication.
And as we’ve seen, the right tend to take everything being said at face value as opposed to actually fact checking things. So they are more likely to be duped by these types of rumors.
They go to federal prison for a felony conviction of impersonation of a federal officer.
I apologize you’re a different person. Please disregard the comment that I left if you were still able to read it in your inbox.
I think you wanted to reply to the person that replied to me. But you replyed to me instead if that makes any sense.
Or maybe I am entirely mistaken and you are indeed replying to me to which I would simply say I am very confused.
Fedposting
this is fucking stupid. literally stop sharing this.
I wish I kept track but there’s AT LEAST 6 versions of this floating around from different influencers
Ice/cops meet up beforehand and often use identifiers to tell who is with them.
Counter point, they are very stupid.
The nazis do infiltrate the resistance though, that’s true
It seems that Agents Provocateur can work BOTH ways.
Day late, dollar (and 380 days and nearly 100 deaths) short, but this is good fun until they mandate the pigs to be microchipped.
I’m okay with them microchipping pigs.
Unrelated did you know they can cause subdermal microcircuitry to spontaneously combust under consumer grade frequency generators in specific circumstances, such as those utilized by those used by keyfob programming devices, causing the substrate to self fuel the reactions and causing intense superheated temperatures?
It’s unrelated because I just made it up
Taste of own medicine, heh?
Fuck yeah
Nope
