‘We will be notifying your family where to collect your remains, because we will kill you, graveyard dead,’ the sheriff eerily warned Thursday
A Florida sheriff issued a stark message to protesters planning to demonstrate this weekend against increasing ICE arrests nationwide.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey warned in a press conference Thursday that if any protesters “throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun,” they will be killed.
Protests against the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown have been popping up across the nation after they first erupted in Los Angeles on Friday.
They are expected to continue through the weekend, in alignment with the president’s birthday parade.
Sounds like shooting cops preemptively would be self defense…
The whole situation feels like a powder keg. The police / ICE / etc. are just pushing and pushing and eventually someone’s going to get shot, people will fight back, and it’ll turn into a shootout. I’m convinced that’s what Trump wants, so he can use it for justification.
They’re basically setting things up such that something will happen. It’s more or less a nationwide, institutionalized police riot. And it’s entirely by design. They are wildly overreaching and doing indefensible, clearly illegal things because they want someone to get pushed too far and respond violently, and they’ll use that (frankly pretty rational, under the circumstances) pushback as carte blanche to take the gloves off and start shooting people.
Tangentially, I hope that that’s the point where the national guard switches sides and starts shooting at ICE.
I feel like this is what it’s really going to come down to. If the military sides with Trump and turns on the citizenry, it’s going to be a massacre. If the military sides with the constitution and turns on the executive branch, they’ll be quickly overthrown.
If the military lines up behind the fascists, they’ll be facing an insurgency the likes of which the world has never seen. You think Ukraine is being sneaky with their (granted, very impressive) covert ops in Russia? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
The best strategy would be to take out the leaders.
This will not work for the military, however.
As soon as the cops start getting killed they will be hit with massive resignations. Most of these guys are only in it to abuse their power without consequences. If they start seeing consequences they will be out of there so fast.
They’re basically zombies with guns. All they know is that they need to consume the living.