AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces...

[Dennis Donovan]

Acyn
‪@acyn.bsky.social‬
AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.
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May 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-11T03:44:01.904Z

[sop]

1. Let's be honest, what Trump's ICE goons are doing is ethnic cleansing.

[FBaggins]

2. What comes after the "so" ?

Is there anything she proposes doing about it?

[C_U_L8R]

3. The hunters may become the hunted

Bullies and oppressors usually have very short careers.

[3Hotdogs]

5. Yes. When their neighbors find out who they are, they will be ostracized.

[Mike Nelson]

4. I have another...

... point of view, and I'm not sure there is any law possible that will make them show their faces. I don't think the "masks" are mainly for preventing the spread of diseases. I think the masks show their task is shameful. Also, I wouldn't want, for example, their kids to have trouble in school. The focus should be on the shameful and sometimes lawless acts of Crooked Donald and his wretched Administration.

[SheilaAnn]

6. The masks might help to conceal many familiar faces from Jan. 6 also. Hear no complaints of "can't find work" ....

[LiberalArkie]

9. Balaclava proved so effective in cold weather to preventing the public from identifying the police that it went all year

Balaclavas are in certain contexts associated with criminality as gang members have used them to conceal their identity. In 2004, police in Prestwich, England, began demanding that people on the street remove their balaclavas, describing the garment as "extremely threatening". In 2008, police in Kent confiscated a copy of the War on Terror board game partly because of the inclusion of a balaclava, stating that it "could be used to conceal someone's identity or could be used in the course of a criminal act."

[Abstractartist]

7. Vigilante mask pulling

Surround, close in and pull off the mask. Someone be responsible for cellphone camera on the ready… snap, upload to anyplace you can with heading… “Is this your friend, co worker, son, brother… no he’s a nazi strong arm”

[LiberalArkie]

10. I do not believe that the public is allowed to touch a police officer.

[skydive forever]

12. You're right, they're not

But they can not just touch, they can tackle, taze, beat, pepper spray, us? It's just not right.

[LiberalArkie]

16. They are there to protect the land owners. Always has been the rule ever since medieval England.

[Montauk6]

8. Are the masks used because the funding for the white hoods is still awaiting approval?

[nuxvomica]

11. I suspect they can't show IDs because they don't have them

They're hired members of Proud Boys or other right-wing gangs.

[KPN]

13. No shit! AOC rocks! That's all.

[Clouds Passing]

14. Private erich prints mercenaries

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread Dennis Donovan

[Mustellus]

17. the KKK ....

.. covered their faces too.