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I have no idea if it or not.
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Molly Ploofkins
@Mollyploofkins
Why are these federal agents wearing face coverings? Is that policy now?
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kelly1mm
(5,756 posts)live love laugh
(15,583 posts)SheltieLover
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Buns_of_Fire
(18,591 posts)SheltieLover
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woodsprite
(12,469 posts)J_William_Ryan
(2,852 posts)Clearly it’s the policy now to behave like fascist brown shirted thugs.
The brutality and cruelty exhibited by Federal immigration agents is shocking, but not surprising – they’ve been given license by Trump to conduct themselves like organized criminals, and they take full advantage of it, gleefully engaging in acts of violent hatred with immigrants, with no regard for decency or the rule of law they’re supposed to uphold.
Walleye
(41,387 posts)Would they really tolerate it if someone treated their mother or sister like that?. Are they just all unfeeling little bastards?
Irish_Dem
(72,217 posts)wondered if they are some of the January 6 people he released from prison.
Irish_Dem
(72,217 posts)People who are willing to commit crimes and enjoy being cruel.
bucolic_frolic
(51,381 posts)Local deputies perhaps
Irish_Dem
(72,217 posts)bucolic_frolic
(51,381 posts)that would make some headlines!
Irish_Dem
(72,217 posts)bucolic_frolic
(51,381 posts)omg the world is so upside down. occupied by Trump's MAGA the government is like a legion of double agents that's turned everything inside out as they say in the spy game. The inmates are running the asylum.
Wait until there are Independent Cities with autonomy, no laws! Leon's henhouses to multiply his children. Women will be breeding sows.
tanyev
(47,105 posts)Just a hunch.
markpkessinger
(8,798 posts)First, it is intended as an intimidation tactic.
Second, it is to shield their identities from the public, so that in the event there is ever an attempt to prosecute any of them for their crimes against the citizenry, it will make it very difficult to identify individuals for charging purposes.
And third, I believe that it is an attempt by the agents to try to distance themselves from their own actions. What I mean is that I believe these agents know full well that what they are doing is wrong, and many may even feel pangs of guilt about it. So they need a way to psychologically distance themselves from what they are doing. When they don masks, they feel anonymous, which makes it easier to think of themselves as good, decent people, even as they carry out acts that their own consciences have trouble with.
That's my theory anyway.
Wuddles440
(1,776 posts)not actual, vetted, and trained Federal LEOs.
riversedge
(76,544 posts)📌They also concealed their identities to carry out heinous crimes against innocent human beings ...
Hotler
(13,333 posts)Meowmee
(9,212 posts)egduj
(877 posts)Not as sexy as some of the other hypotheses, but it is the most obvious one.