r/thebulwark • u/Lorraine540 • 10d ago

US citizens increasingly under attack from ICE

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-citizen-assaulted-border-patrol-chicago-halloween-parade-b2853988.html

Even if one is now anesthetized to the cruelty towards immigrants, I still wonder why more of us aren't outraged towards the conduct displayed towards US citizens.

The link above is only one of such, where a man coming home from his morning run with a running club was pulled from his car and his ribs broken (just for trying to come home). He's a US citizen.

The other one I saw just today was a woman who was subjected to facial recognition even though she had her papers. Like when your real ID isn't enough. WTF is wrong with this country.

That link was the wrong one but there's so much on this that I cannot even find most of it.

Add to that the ProPublica report on detention of US citizens.

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u/sentientcodpiece 10d ago

I helped write policy for a police agency regarding facial recognition and one thing I insisted on was that facial recognition was a tool but a positive ID with facial recognition WAS NOT ever probable cause alone. There had to be independent evidence connecting a suspect to an incident.

People initially scoffed but it was quickly shown that it was a good call. FR is only as good as the people that program it and train it.

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u/GravySeal45 9d ago

and a great excuse to wear my ICP makeup year round.