Police Investigating After Truck Drives Into Jewish ICE Protesters

The Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that it was investigating an “incident” that occurred the previous evening at a facility used to house undocumented immigrant detainees.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1242962

Lock that bastard up — in a cage!

And these pepper-spraying pansies, too!

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There’s a really interesting dynamic going on today on a few other sites where certain groups/communities of commenters are screaming in support of the Hong Kong protesters and the things they are doing like taking over buildings and spaces in those threads, while in other threads they are defending the truck driver here because those protesters where blocking a street.

It’s at least getting called out at a couple of sites, but the disingenuous nature of Post Modern Conservatism really does have an effect on the national conversation and we really need to counter it somehow.

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Hopefully, the guy in the truck will be prosecuted under state law for assault and attempted murder-- meaning that Trump can’t pardon him.

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Not only them, fire the local police who stood by and did nothing.

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How are their hyoid bones?

(–ducks–)

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Not only does it appears he is wearing a badge it also appears he has a two way radio.Smells like EMPLOYEE to me.

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Gee, the second big story about Jews today. How wonderful to be in the spotlight. Thanks, Moron. Who cares if anyone else is hurt, right? Guess it’s more guards at the synagogues.

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Makes a person wonder how the undocumented detainees are being treated.

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I hope that driver lives every second in fear for the rest of their days

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ICE agents are thugs. Fire them all.

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So these Jews, who are protesting concentration camps, should be quiet? Or TPM shouldn’t write about people protesting concentration camps? Just trying to understand here.

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No, what I mean is, thanks to Trump and his “policies,” Jews are now in the news A LOT, which makes us very visible and even more the targets than we already are. It’s deeper than just another news story. Of course this event should be reported on.

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The protestors in this story are heroes, and are a demonstrating the power and moral righteousness of the Jewish faith.

The state of Israel, on the other hand, undermines the God of Moses with every bulldozed home and murdered protestor.

So, what is your point?

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See above.

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The policies of Israel aren’t Trump’s fault. Be sure to include Bibi on your rage. The global BDS movement, which I support, is a response to him and his policies.

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I absolutely include the cowardly Bibi. But Trump enables him.

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We had a poster here who still shows up every now and then who darkly warned protesters during I believe the Ferguson protests not to block his vehicle. (This was pointless bravado, he was just saying.) I think people are under the misimpression that you can deal out aggravated assault, attempted vehicular homicide, whatever you want to call it because of protesters blocking a road you want to drive on. I hope this man gets a few years to think over how wrong he was about that.

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I hope the staff who pepper-sprayed the protesters get a big fat lawsuit payout for their own mental trauma like the Berkley officer did.

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