I suspect they're going to find it challenging to turn protected speech into something prosecutable like obstruction - assuming activists exercise even a modicum of care in their wording. Seems like just another intimidation tactic but in doing that, they've also given a heads-up to their targets.

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elicash 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For all the complaints about the previous DOJ, one thing nobody ever argued was that they weren't intending to get convictions. They only brought cases they thought they could win.

To see DOJ use its power the way we've seen (and I know the original story here is only with FBI at this point), it makes me think there should be some equivalent of anti-SLAPP laws but aimed at federal prosecutions. Some way to fast track baseless charges that will obviously never result in anything and that are just meant to either (a) punish someone into paying a ton of lawyer fees, (b) to intimidate others, or (c) grab some short-term headlines.

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nextlevelwizard 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Considering ICE is executing people in the streets and were already breaking laws before this something little like free speech won’t help

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jatora 7 hours ago | parent [-]

'executing people in the streets' is such disingenuous phrasing. How about improperly trained ICE agents responding horrifically to stressful and dangerous altercations caused by citizens impeding lawful investigations?

	▲	germinalphrase 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Your causality is reversed. The dude was literally just standing there on a public sidewalk with his hands up. He never initiated the altercation or otherwise impeded any lawful investigation. The agent chose to initiate the altercation during which the victim was pepper sprayed, pinned to the ground by six people, disarmed, and then shot ten times.
	▲	nextlevelwizard 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Either you are MAGA or fed. First was literally woman dropping her kid to school. ICE stopped her car, told her to both get out of the car and drive away. ICE pig deliberately stepped in front of her car, she turned the wheel away from all ICE pigs and started to move away and he shot her dead. Second was ICE pigs pushing two women for at least 10 meters. They pushed these women until they hit a man who was literally just filming. He helped the women stay up. ICE pigs pepper sprayed all three and while he was on his knees with hand in the air, other supporting himself against the ground he was shot in the back of the head. In both cases ICE created and escalated the situation against peaceful and completely innocent citizens. Neither situation was stressful nor an altercation and neither of these innocent people were impeding any investigation. And calling ICE agents actions “lawful” is laughable, let’s start from them illegally wearing masks, not wearing their badges which is also illegal, and not identifying themselves which surprise surprise is also against the law