DHS tells police to consider common protest activity as violent including riding a bike or livestreaming police.

[Swede]

Homeland Security urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear—like masks, flashlights, and cameras—as potential precursors to violence, telling officers to prepare “from the point of view of an adversary.”

Protesters on bicycles, skateboards, or even “on foot” are framed as potential “scouts” conducting reconnaissance or searching for “items to be used as weapons.” Livestreaming is listed alongside “doxxing” as a “tactic” for “threatening” police. Online posters are cast as ideological recruiters—or as participants in “surveillance sharing.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20250711175834/https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/

[superpatriotman]

1. First F*cking Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Like they care? (n.t.)

[Karasu]

13. Needs to be upheld in order to mean anything, and they've been shitting on it for 6 fucking months now with mostly

little consequence.

[vanlassie]

26. The order itself should be questioned in Congress.

They are clearly attempting to provoke.

[sop]

2. When the Department of Homeland Security was first created by an Act of Congress back in 2002,

as a stand-alone, Cabinet-level department with broad powers, many predicted this agency would end up overreaching and violating Americans' civil rights. With Trump in charge, any chance we may have had to reform DHS is gone. DHS has become an out of control monster.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/holding-homeland-security-accountable

[malaise]

3. THIS

Rec

[slightlv]

10. I was one of those yelling and hammering

that DHS sounded to much like "the Fatherland"... and that it would come to absolutely no good. We needed to protest it and stop it from the very beginning. But most of the people were still in shock over 9/11 and Bush and Cheney took advantage of it. We were silenced by everyone around us... and protesters would caged blocks away from whatever they were protesting. Bush did an excellent end-run around the 1st amendment, paving the way for trump. Village Idiot.

[Karasu]

15. I was always in opposition to the creation of that department. Which is more than can be said for the party of "small

government."

...And sure enough, look where we are now.

[hadEnuf]

20. Lots figured that the Patriot Act would be turned on Americans sooner or later.

It just needed a fascist monster like Trump for it to happen.

Amazing how quiet the right-wing has been since the government has dispersed their "jack booted thugs" around the country, eh? That was their apocalyptic nightmare for decades, but now nary a peep.

The right has never really had a problem with a dictator; only WHO the dictator is.

[Martin Eden]

30. The right-wing aspires to BE those jack booted thugs

It was always about a narrow minded ideology, not about true freedom and liberty.

[Volaris]

22. Which might be the means by which we finally get to tear it back apart,

And set fire to the useless pieces

[Solly Mack]

5. ...

[BWdem4life]

6. Many of us have known this was a slow motion train wreck

from the beginning. But denial is strong, so implacably strong. It’s all unfolding now and the speed is no longer slow motion. At this point I’m having a hard time believing anything can stop it.

[orangecrush]

7. They were nice enough to include us on DU

"Online posters are cast as ideological recruiters—or as participants in “surveillance sharing.”

Fuck you, you Nazi shit bags.

[Cha]

19. Fry in Hell Traitor Nazis.

[orangecrush]

23. The Business Plot

.this time the coup succeeded

[Cha]

24. Our Mission is to

Un-Coup It.

[RobertDevereaux]

8. We the People counter that . . .

. . . the corrupt DHS is to be scorned and ignored.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

9. Keep pushing and

They'll get the Civil War they're looking for, but it won't turn out the way they think it will. We are not all Krusti Gnome's dogs or goats in a gravel pit.

[Monsieur_Grumpe]

11. People are going to get hurt if not killed.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. When i post that

This is a REGIME I mean it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. Man, all those hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at cops over the last few years are really going to pay off, huh.

Never too late to abolish it all.

[Hope22]

16. Talking about themselves.......

J6 flag poles were by design. Not your average cheesy flag pole but solid weapons.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. There aren't enough judges in the country...

.. to handle the law breaking by Trump & Co.

[Duncan Grant]

18. De-escalation has been standard operating procedure for years.

De-escalation works — trump wants violence (particularly in California) in order to up the ante.

[stollen]

21. Fascism comes to the US

[WmChris]

25. SS squads

Mango Mussolini's storm troopers have been given authorization to violate the first amendment without any restraints.

[stollen]

31. It's unconstitutional. Past time to rip the masks off

and take some names.

[AntiFascist]

27. As far as California is concerned...

why does DHS feel that it has any control over local police departments or sheriffs?

This is where mayors, city councilmembers, county supervisors, and the governor need to get involved to protect their citizens' First Amendment rights!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Cameras: They know they have and will increasingly have things to hide. . . . .nt

[yellow dahlia]

29. They've been trying to write this script in the RW media propaganda bubble.

I monitor the RW media, so I know what they are up to. They are engaged in a concerted campaign to paint protestors as violent terrorists and radicals.