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- privacy@programming.dev
On an evening in late January, Emily was driving through her Minneapolis neighborhood doing something that had become part of her routine in recent weeks: patrolling for ICE.
Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot. “And then someone leaned out of the passenger side of that SUV and took a picture of me and my car,” she says.
Emily says she decided to leave at that point, but the SUV made a sudden U-turn and barreled towards her, braking next to her driver’s side window. A female agent wearing a gaiter-style mask rolled down the window, leaned out — and addressed Emily by name.
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Eat my ass, ICE. Fuck all of those terrorists who’s lives are now forfeit. Emily should have lured them onto her private residence and setup someone to take pot shots. We ought to honey pot these dumb mother fuckers into rifle speed consequential. Castle law should still apply.
As should have become abundantly clear by now: no laws apply, at least not when they’re in the way of the fascists or their billionaire enablers.
yeah, you’re literally driving a vehicle with a license plate tied to someone typically directly related to, if not your information.
police could have done that 15 years ago, but they wanted you to always confirm who you are as verification so they asked… but they always knew names/faces/address before even approaching your car.
The local police are using this too, https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/02/26/milwaukee-officer-accused-of-misusing-flock-surveillance-cameras/
It’s the facial recognition piece that I find particularly concerning.
But federal immigration agents are using a facial recognition app called Mobile Fortify and U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently signed a contract with Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has accessed billions of images of peoples’ faces off the internet
It’s the fact that they interacted with Alex Pretti a week before bumping into him again and killing him that I find particularly concerning.
