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BREAKING: Trump's masked D.C. officers tase delivery man (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 OP
we are in staziland now pansypoo53219 Aug 2025 #1
This is worse than the Stasi Pachamama Aug 2025 #5
Secret Police Norrrm Aug 2025 #2
How do we stop this shit? Rowdyag Aug 2025 #3
Say no to who? Say something to who? IronLionZion Aug 2025 #14
Thus in lies the problem Rowdyag Aug 2025 #20
I would like to see more explanation .. stopdiggin Aug 2025 #4
You have to be kidding Cirsium Aug 2025 #7
I'm not at all kidding stopdiggin Aug 2025 #9
You didn't write that, did you? Cirsium Aug 2025 #11
I have read this. The Madcap Aug 2025 #12
so, the arrest is not relevant .. ? stopdiggin Aug 2025 #17
What does that mean? Cirsium Aug 2025 #18
A number of things. What was the reason for the stop? stopdiggin Aug 2025 #19
If he has never seen law enforcement act like that, rsdsharp Aug 2025 #6
Looked like one moniss Aug 2025 #8
Probably a good idea... 2naSalit Aug 2025 #10
These are not trained leos obamanut2012 Aug 2025 #13
These men need to be identified Johnny2X2X Aug 2025 #15
Kkk, just a different mask. Buddyzbuddy Aug 2025 #16
Keep your Smart Phones Running; Keep Documenting; there will be future Trials. MagaSmash Aug 2025 #21

Pachamama

(17,565 posts)
5. This is worse than the Stasi
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 03:01 PM
Aug 2025

We are way beyond what the Stasi did…

We are in Gestapoland

Rowdyag

(187 posts)
3. How do we stop this shit?
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 02:18 PM
Aug 2025

Everyone has to say no 🤷‍♀️

The saying if you see something say something

This crap is coming to a city near you

stopdiggin

(15,632 posts)
4. I would like to see more explanation ..
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 02:53 PM
Aug 2025

What preceded/precipitated this confrontation/arrest? Does appear as if at least one LE is injured (in struggle) .. ? That appears to have continued after individual (and several LE) are on the ground? (one officer physically dragged away from scrum by other LE - and appears to be stunned on hands and knees?)

(and, yes - the 'masked' behavior is quite problematic with many .. fulling on board there. and can also fully understand why DC residents are really hacked off about recent developments .. it's a sh*t show, no mistake.)
But I need more info about causes for arrest, tasing. And, no - video, while perhaps disturbing, does not speak for itself.

stopdiggin

(15,632 posts)
9. I'm not at all kidding
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 03:18 PM
Aug 2025

Yes, there are disturbing elements. No - the video does not address all the questions one might typically ask. First one being - why the arrest? You don't find that a relevant factor?

Cirsium

(4,103 posts)
11. You didn't write that, did you?
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 04:29 PM
Aug 2025

"Why the arrest?" smh

Victor Klemperer (I Will Bear Witness 1933-41: A Diary of the Nazi Years) relates a episode late in the war. He was among the last few Jews still alive in Dresden, working in a munitions factory and living in barracks with other Jewish workers. One morning he walked into the communal kitchen and overheard a discussion about a co-worker who had been arrested overnight by the Gestapo. One of them said "what did he do? He must have done something wrong. They wouldn't just pick him up for no reason. This, after thousands had already been rounded up.

The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years.

A Dresden Jew, a veteran of World War I, a man of letters and historian of great sophistication, Klemperer recognized the danger of Hitler as early as 1933. His diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany.

What makes this book so remarkable, aside from its literary distinction, is Klemperer's preoccupation with the thoughts and actions of ordinary Germans: Berger the greengrocer, who was given Klemperer's house ("anti-Hitlerist, but of course pleased at the good exchange&quot , the fishmonger, the baker, the much-visited dentist. All offer their thoughts and theories on the progress of the war: Will England hold out? Who listens to Goebbels? How much longer will it last?

This symphony of voices is ordered by the brilliant, grumbling Klemperer, struggling to complete his work on eighteenth-century France while documenting the ever- tightening Nazi grip. He loses first his professorship and then his car, his phone, his house, even his typewriter, and is forced to move into a Jews' House (the last step before the camps), put his cat to death (Jews may not own pets), and suffer countless other indignities.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255161.I_Will_Bear_Witness_1933_41


The Madcap

(2,026 posts)
12. I have read this.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 05:01 PM
Aug 2025

An adult's first-hand account of the Nazi terror. Luckily, he and his wife survived, but barely.

Cirsium

(4,103 posts)
18. What does that mean?
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 07:30 PM
Aug 2025

The arrest is not relevant? The "arrest" is what we are talking about, though it is more like an assault.


stopdiggin

(15,632 posts)
19. A number of things. What was the reason for the stop?
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 07:50 PM
Aug 2025

Why, and at what point, did a 'stop' proceed to the level of arrest .. ? (if in fact that was the case?) Did the subject resist?
How can we tell the story - if we don't know what the story is?
And, why would a request for that kind of information - be shoved aside - or deemed irrelevant or somehow offensive?

Edit: I have tried searches on several different engines to see if there is more information available. So far nothing. Will attempt to share if I come up with more on this particular incident.

rsdsharp

(12,092 posts)
6. If he has never seen law enforcement act like that,
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 03:06 PM
Aug 2025

he’s apparently not watched videos on YouTube. The only difference is that these thugs were wearing masks.

moniss

(9,145 posts)
8. Looked like one
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 03:16 PM
Aug 2025

Oafcreeper hit his head and another Oafcreeper was trying to comfort him to keep him from crying.

2naSalit

(103,805 posts)
10. Probably a good idea...
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 03:39 PM
Aug 2025

Fur people to arm up with some bear spray and use it on those fuckers. It goes through the fabric on their faces.

Johnny2X2X

(24,429 posts)
15. These men need to be identified
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 05:15 PM
Aug 2025

Their faces and addresses need to be made public. These animals live among us and need to answer for their evil deeds.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,882 posts)
16. Kkk, just a different mask.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 05:21 PM
Aug 2025

Thanks to the Felon, they are now legally terrorizing nationwide.

WHATEVER IT TAKES TO KEEP EPSTEIN OFF THE FRONT PAGE!

MagaSmash

(12,611 posts)
21. Keep your Smart Phones Running; Keep Documenting; there will be future Trials.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 11:31 PM
Aug 2025

and if THIS in not Impeachable; what is?

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