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Nittersing

(8,216 posts)
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 09:21 AM Jan 29

Pam Bondi Tries New Intimidation Tactic With Protester Arrest Photos

The attorney general is posting photos of people in Minnesota who have been arrested but not convicted.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has started sharing the names and photographs of protesters arrested in Minneapolis—in violation of Department of Justice rules.

Bondi took to X Wednesday to share the names and photographs of 16 protesters who had been arrested for allegedly assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal law enforcement agents. “We expect more arrests to come,” she warned.

DOJ policy expressly prohibits releasing mug shots of defendants charged with federal crimes, unless releasing their photo would serve a “legitimate law enforcement function.” Not only did Bondi’s posts fail to serve a clear law enforcement function, they were blatantly intended to have a chilling effect on protesters’ expression of their First Amendment rights.

Notably, these protesters have only been arrested—not convicted. And somehow, the public still hasn’t been told the names of the federal agents who shot and killed Alex Pretti.

https://newrepublic.com/post/205842/pam-bondi-minnesota-protester-arrest-photos
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Pam Bondi Tries New Intimidation Tactic With Protester Arrest Photos (Original Post) Nittersing Jan 29 OP
Good! Its a badge of honor sboatcar Jan 29 #1
Have these people been indicted? n/t rzemanfl Jan 29 #2
Pam Bondi, Professional Liar, can't make any of her charges stick so she is going travelingthrulife Jan 29 #3
Do you think she will attack the judge and johnnyfins Jan 29 #4
She'll be... 2naSalit Jan 29 #7
isn't this a form of Doxxing? nt Javaman Jan 29 #5
I think it is Rebl2 Jan 29 #10
Makes it easier to start GoFundMe accounts! n/t leftstreet Jan 29 #6
Ha! Perfect response!! Nittersing Jan 29 #8
The wall of fame. Solly Mack Jan 29 #9
In normal times, this alone would be impeachable. eppur_se_muova Jan 29 #11
Not the flex she thinks it is. North Coast Lawyer Jan 29 #12
This face doxing stuff is just going haywire gulliver Jan 29 #13
Enough with the "rules and policies"! Buddyzbuddy Jan 29 #14
Maybe we should start posting images of the ICEstapo brown shirts from this site: ... aggiesal Jan 29 #15
An open invitation to vigilante injustice. Harker Jan 29 #16
Missing the point of this angrychair Jan 29 #17
A hungry lawyer should step up pfitz59 Jan 29 #18
When the top legal person is an outright criminal Old Crank Jan 29 #19

sboatcar

(799 posts)
1. Good! Its a badge of honor
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 09:23 AM
Jan 29

Also, they basically can never get the charges to stick because the officers would have to be identified and could be called to testify in court, and we all know how proud ICE agents are to share their identities.

travelingthrulife

(4,838 posts)
3. Pam Bondi, Professional Liar, can't make any of her charges stick so she is going
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 09:38 AM
Jan 29

to deliberately break the law to 'shame them'. Isn't it interesting how these criminals screeched about doxing the Cowards of ICE...yet doing this is just fine.

2naSalit

(101,042 posts)
7. She'll be...
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 10:18 AM
Jan 29

The snotty, snooty skank she's always been at her trial. Hopefully they'll have her in a remote location and simply turn off her mic when she gets mouthy.

eppur_se_muova

(41,350 posts)
11. In normal times, this alone would be impeachable.
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 12:57 PM
Jan 29

Anyone in a Dem administration that did such a thing would resign quickly to avoid being fired.

(A reminder that occasionally Rs and Is have served in Dem admins)

gulliver

(13,810 posts)
13. This face doxing stuff is just going haywire
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 02:00 PM
Jan 29

They dox; we dox. The devil laughing. What a mess! Voltaire, eat your heart out.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,328 posts)
14. Enough with the "rules and policies"!
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 02:10 PM
Jan 29

What good are the so called rules and policies when those in charge are the ones breaking them. Honor is a fairytale with these people. Bondi, Patel, Johnson, McConnell, 6 Supreme Court Justices, the Felon.....

Some don't even follow the law, what good are rules and policies. A Justice Dept. that's supposed to be independent of the Executive branch. So much for 10 year terms for FBI Directors. Yeah, that worked. Don't get me started on our system of checks and balance. It sounded right in theory. Who would have thought they could have gathered so many power hungry, cowardly, sycophants into 3 separate branches.

Back to my point, when the Dems are back in control, in addition to fixing the obvious, they have got to fix this "honor system" crap. The SC has proven itself to be one of the worst offenders. They'll police themselves my ass.
The only thing that should be named after McConnell when he's gone is a toilet, so he can be crapped on.

angrychair

(11,911 posts)
17. Missing the point of this
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 03:13 PM
Jan 29

This wAs done as a way of mobilizing their paramilitary bootlickers in MAGA to go after them. People will track them down and harass their families, their friends, their places of employment, the company that owns their apartment or rental home, without end and get them fired and kicked out of their house.

That is the point of doing this.

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