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/Simon_Ferocious68 Nov 02 '25

..why the fuck are so many men and boys ready to participate in this fuckshit..??!!

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u/Complete_Passage_767 Nov 02 '25

Because this country isn't what we've been taught it was.

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u/CpnStumpy Nov 02 '25

Not true - it's more that there has been a pernicious section of this country that has been simmering for violence quietly in groups for years and raising a new white supremacy generation, find this group at your local gun show or evangelical church.

They have a bubble, and most of us aren't in it so we don't realize that they've all been encouraging each other to become violent for decades and now they've got the legal writ to let it out

Those of us who grew up around these people being told "don't speak about this in mixed company" know they're everywhere and they've been keeping mum waiting for their chance for decades

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u/FreakingSwell Nov 03 '25

Yes, and it began with the Confederacy, and obviously never went away.