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Feds confront black man on his porch for smoking cigarette in first hour of DC "crackdown" (Original Post) orangecrush Aug 2025 OP
Weed's legal to smoke in DC by the way. Ellipsis Aug 2025 #1
You can't drink a beer on your porch orangecrush Aug 2025 #3
You can't Just Jerome Aug 2025 #7
Got that right orangecrush Aug 2025 #10
because they can't find any REAL CRIME to stop--- Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #16
Yes. Read about this the other day. They B.See Aug 2025 #2
I don't advocate smoking whatsoever swong19104 Aug 2025 #4
Racist Jan 6 rioters are now federal law enforcement. surfered Aug 2025 #5
It's a gang orangecrush Aug 2025 #6
Too much law dcmfox Aug 2025 #8
So property isn't private anymore? live love laugh Aug 2025 #9
Apparently orangecrush Aug 2025 #11
aw you know Skittles Aug 2025 #12
"The federal search that d@nald tr*mp put out" FFS it's vomitous tishaLA Aug 2025 #13
And we have this bullshit lonely bird Aug 2025 #14
Cops doing their sometimes thuggish behavior... electric_blue68 Aug 2025 #15
"Feds committing crimes in DC to bolster DC crime statatistics" Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #17
I would have said: "Hey motherfucker, if people can drink wine at church, I can drink beer on my effin' porch!" RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Aug 2025 #18
Crimestoppers Tip: Convicted felon & unindicted pedo is on his way to Russia, stopover in Alaska. UTUSN Aug 2025 #19

Jack Valentino

(5,252 posts)
16. because they can't find any REAL CRIME to stop---
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 10:17 PM
Aug 2025

they ought to check the House Republican caucus room for cocaine and meth and bribery

B.See

(8,870 posts)
2. Yes. Read about this the other day. They
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 07:20 PM
Aug 2025

tried to make the confrontation look like a public service announcement. Fkn pathetic.

swong19104

(662 posts)
4. I don't advocate smoking whatsoever
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 09:20 PM
Aug 2025

but perhaps the guy is just being nice to his family by smoking outside? Or, if the unit is a rental, the lease might require all smoking to be done outdoors.

surfered

(14,301 posts)
5. Racist Jan 6 rioters are now federal law enforcement.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 09:21 PM
Aug 2025

The 1930s Black Shirt and Brown Shirt fascists are now empowered by law.

tishaLA

(14,794 posts)
13. "The federal search that d@nald tr*mp put out" FFS it's vomitous
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 09:57 PM
Aug 2025

So many videos of these agents' excesses re floating around Reddit, including them literally taking a little girl out of her mother's arms.

We are already so far down the rabbit hole and the country is like the proverbial frogs about to be boiled. (pardon the mixed metaphor)

electric_blue68

(27,329 posts)
15. Cops doing their sometimes thuggish behavior...
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 10:12 PM
Aug 2025

Leave the man alone!

Bc my mom was asthmatic visitors who smoked went in the hallway. Luckily a rarity.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,264 posts)
18. I would have said: "Hey motherfucker, if people can drink wine at church, I can drink beer on my effin' porch!"
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 10:25 PM
Aug 2025

UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
19. Crimestoppers Tip: Convicted felon & unindicted pedo is on his way to Russia, stopover in Alaska.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 10:28 PM
Aug 2025

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