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“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols, who snapped the photo of the masked agents driving out of San Pedro on Tuesday morning.

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Armed, masked men in tactical gear driving around in a vehicle with (sometimes) no license plate.

We're supposed to just trust that they're working for the government and not robbing banks or something?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The whole point is to get people used to submitting to anyone on the off chance they are indeed Federal agents.

The goal is to terrorize the citizenry into submission.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Them they don't need to have "official" thugs to do their dirty work (along with the weak culpability) and can just call up the brown shirts.

[–] CubitOom 18 points 1 day ago

Ok but where'd they get that JD Vance mask?

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Setting up next Halloween to be the purge 🤡💩