The homeowner told police the two men said they were police and claimed they were at the home to serve a warrant.
[The homeowner] became suspicious, because, you know, they have a ring camera too, and the suspects were saying they had a warrant, but it was just two people and they’re masked up and no police cars, no lights or anything like that," said Lt. Khan with HPD.
At some point, police said the men shot at the homeowner through the door, prompting the homeowner to return fire.
The homeowner was not hurt in the gunfire, but the two men were both hit and pronounced dead at the scene.
lots of us said that this would be exactly what would be happening with masked police using constant escalation dominance as a tactic.
this is civil war behavior from a civilization.
it will also lead to blood feuds between people and the police as a whole. i expect to see more actual police police getting ambushed even if they are in a sanctuary city and are not acting to aid ICE.
Unless the cops start shooting ICE on sight for the safety of their neighborhood, they are complicit and get what they deserve.
And this is also what they wanted, they WANT people to start firing on cops in masks, this is the escalation they need to make the excuse for turning the US into a massive locked-down corporate prison.
“What’s that? People are shooting at our precious law enforcement heroes?? Let loose the Palantir Drones! FLY MY PRETTIES!”
They don’t need the excuse, just look at D.C. in the past week. And escalation will only make things worse for them. They’re looking at an armed insurgency situation akin to the “War on Terror,” which proved that an entrenched group amongst the populace is impossible to oust because anybody could be an insurgent, and taking one out will create more people willing to take revenge. There used to be an excellent Flash game about this very point where you shot cruise missiles at terrorists walking across the screen. And every time that a missile would explode, it would inevitably hit civilians in the area, and those nearby would turn into more terrorists. You’d just continue to fill the screen with more and more terrorists than there were originally until eventually you gave up.
Somebody a few weeks ago said in a thread on a similar subject that the military’s conclusion was that you need about 3 soldiers for every insurgent in a population. There’s no way that they can draft as much as theoretically 75% of the population.
It’s a whole lot of bluster, and if we could get organized we could topple the whole thing. ICE has homes they go back to at the end of the day. They don’t have army bases to hide in.
That flash game sounds like political art. Just WOW. As an aspiring game dev that’s just a brilliant way of getting the point across that I could only dream of.
The trouble with a lot of these things, sadly, is getting it in front of people who need to get the message rather than those who already agree with it from the start.
ACAB. Shoot fascists in masks in their masks. Full stop.
And their families, sadly.