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(52,436 posts) Mon Aug 18, 2025, 12:26 PM Aug 2025

Can the goons be successfully sued? [View all]

From yesterday’s post

VIDEOING THE GESTAPO. Anyone who films the Gestapo is attacked, phone taken away, cuffed, and hauled off

https://democraticunderground.com/100220568236

Is this legal?

Or, is there a court that can rule on this?

This is getting frightening

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Can the goons be successfully sued? [View all] question everything Aug 2025 OP

It was illegal in the United States of America back when it existed. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #1

Is it a felony to pull down a goon's mask? Sneederbunk Aug 2025 #2

Well, if you don't know who they are seems they're no one special. So why not unmask them? Lots of imitators and fakes. cbabe Aug 2025 #3