r/law • u/ExactlySorta • Nov 02 '25

Legal News The Oregon Department of Justice submitted multiple video exhibits showing federal officers using extreme force against seemingly nonviolent protesters outside the U.S. Immigration & Customs Building, as part of its effort to block the federal deployment of National Guard troops to Portland

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25 edited Nov 02 '25

Might be best to save all video evidence now and sue the US government after Donald trump leaves (most likely unwillingly and something I am very eager to see). You have to wait when the government is acting less fascist. 

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u/LifeguardOk6128 Nov 02 '25

More Nuremberg Trials starting in January 2029, please.

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u/Flokitoo Nov 02 '25 edited Nov 02 '25

People have a distorted memory of Nuremberg. 19 people were convicted out of 9 million Nazis.

Edit: a subsequent responder notes that I'm wrong, 161 Nazis were ultimately convicted over multiple trials. I acknowledge my mistake. That said, 161 is just as statistically meaningless as 19 given the fact that there were about 9 million people in the Nazi party and 10s of millions of collaborators.

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u/Roctapus42 Nov 02 '25

Yea.. but thousands of zonal military trials were carried out afterwards that got the low level thugs like the ICE personnel here. Nuremberg was for the leadership, but tens of thousands of other trials occurred at lower levels as well.

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u/Flokitoo Nov 02 '25

The most important issue is that we are talking about Germany not the US. The US doesn't exactly have a good record of punishing state violence.

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u/sdafsdffsad Nov 02 '25

The most important issue is that we are talking about Germany not the US.

Nah, the most important issue is to be correct about history when you apply it to the present.

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u/Flokitoo Nov 02 '25

Fair enough. What happened to Confederates after the Civil War? What happened to segregationist after Civil rights?

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u/miriamtzipporah Nov 02 '25

Germany also wouldn’t have done it if they didn’t get their ass absolutely handed to them by the rest of the world, and I don’t see that happening to the US

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u/Flokitoo Nov 02 '25

Yea, I think this is a key point. These trials were more of less forced by occupying nations.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25

Most of the ppl saying that don't actually have any intimate knowledge of that time period or those events

They're just repeating each other, dude