• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    At one point Monday, the firm’s prior private security firm — whose contract was ended after it coordinated with DOGE — also appeared at the building, at one point “proceed[ing] to walk toward the Institute’s gun safe,” pushing USIP staff to ignite its lockdown policy.

    Are all private security firms that corruptible?

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      9 months ago

      I’m just sitting here finding it amusing that the Institute for Peace has a gun safe.

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      9 months ago

      And at what point are they armed trespassers? And if the institute has guns…… Why the fuck aren’t they picking them up and defending the institute? What are they for? To sit in a safe, only for you to cry when someone walks toward them?

      The fuck.

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    9 months ago

    US Marshals, FBI, and DC police are rogue and cannot be expected to enforce the law. They facilitated an illegal trespass, entry and ransacking of an independent, non-profit not under the jurisdiction of the executive branch.

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    9 months ago

    DC Police are under the control of the civilian side of the city, presided over by Mayor Muriel Bowser. How the fuck are they just being turned into the Trump admin’s henchmen? They have no business handling federal affairs.

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      9 months ago

      DC is fully funded by congress and the GOP has threatened to defund the city. It’s easy to criticize that from afar but going against Trump would mean a lot of pain and a lot of deaths.

      DC needs statehood.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      because all cops are inherently right wing thugs, who have been longing for the day they can put on the brown shits and jack boots.