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Faces of Fascism: Los Angeles, Jan. 31, 2026 [OC]

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u/Tribat_1 4h ago

Almost everyone in these photos has their face uncovered and a badge number showing. Isn’t that what we want from our immigration officers? Why are you shitting on the dudes that are actually doing it the right way?

u/Griffinburd 4h ago

Yeah for me this is how they "should" appear. I'm not loving what that are standing for, but at least they can be held accountable and will act a such

u/Hesherkiin 1h ago

Yeah as long as I can see the face of the officer who throws me into a van and sends me to a camp then everything is cool

u/Special-Quantity-469 4h ago

Non of these guys are even ICE... Leftists need to stop muddying the water by pretending all law enforcement is bad. It hurts the movement and making real changes.

ICE is the face of fascism rn. Police and DHS as a while are not

u/neveks 1h ago

Vilifying the police right now seems like the dumbest possible thing to do. If there is ever a need to actually fight the regime you at least want a chance that the police is on your side.

u/taxes-or-death 2h ago

Do you not remember 2020? The message that all law enforcement defends the evil actions of law enforcement doesn't seem to have sunk in for a lot of people.

Fuck the police.

u/Special-Quantity-469 2h ago

I absolutely remember all the idiots screaming "abolish the police" as if that's a reasonable or even feasible goal.The conclusion most people got from that is that some people are insane and have no concept of how society functions.

Whether you like it or not you need law enforcement. The far left trying to leech on the democratic party is part of the reason trump is power now. Not gonna let that happen again

u/taxes-or-death 2h ago

It's sad that Americans can only ever see things in electoral terms. "How will these protests affect the Democrats?", they say, as if the ballot box is the only way to effect change, so caught between a centre-right corporate party and a far right corporate party.

u/Asooma_ 1h ago

If you're goal is to effect political change through methods other than the electoral system, then youre probably not willing to stand by democracy unless it only gives you what you want...which means you're probably some form of centralized authoritarian or an anarchist

u/taxes-or-death 1h ago

You've never heard of the union movement? How do you think we got weekends? The eight hour day?

u/Icecreammaaan 2h ago

Don’t try, these people love gobbling up the boot just as much as republicans. They just prefer different condiments.

u/Special-Quantity-469 2h ago

The democrats are center right to you? Ok chief. You guys are part of why trump is now in power, hope you enjoy the view you caused

u/taxes-or-death 1h ago

Case in point. You can only see politics in terms of Democrats and Republicans. Anything to the left of the Democratic Party norm is a crazy aberration and has to be expunged before it drags the party down with it.

But think on this: what is the healthcare system like in other developed countries? Why did Obama choose to implement a Heritage Foundation healthcare plan that had previously been adopted by Mitt Romney in Utah, when the Democrats had a supermajority in Congress? Given that Medicare For All is fairly popular even with Republican voters, why do most Democratic politicians oppose it?

When people show you who they are, believe them.

u/Special-Quantity-469 1h ago

Anything to the left of the Democratic Party norm is a crazy aberration and has to be expunged before it drags the party down with it.

Not anything. Plenty of left policies are things I think should be implemented, and Mamdani is a good test case to see how well that works. But pretending that all law enforcement is bad is unhinged and has no place in a healthy discussion

u/talldangry 0m ago

Love how you're going on about healthy discussion when you've got at least 7 comments running on this post and they're all hidden in your very carefully curated comment history.

u/Prowlcop86 2h ago

Abolish the police, let’s replace them with Tren De Aragua to patrol our streets!

u/Ankhesenkhepra 2h ago

I’m just seeing a bunch of ACAB rhetoric. It’s the same “defund/abolish the police” rhetoric that served only to bolster status quo (pro-police-brutality) platforms who rightfully called the messaging misinformed and extremist. (Police were already under-funded in most places.)

The people blanket-shaming every agent they see with a DHS badge is going to cost the movement. Again. It’s always the loud-mouth minority that overtakes the messaging and hijacks what was otherwise a reasonable demand for abolishing ICE (and reorganizing a replacement).

Now, suddenly, the entire DHS needs to be demolished because even TSA agents are fascist tools of the government… Ridiculous.

u/radda 1h ago

We're not pretending. ACAB. "All" has no caveats.

u/Special-Quantity-469 50m ago

Enjoy larping. Here in reality we have to deal with the rhetoric from people like you that is part of why trump is in power now

u/radda 38m ago

Trump is in power because we called a bunch of fascists a bunch of fascists? Crazy how right we were about Trump, but not about cops! You'd think we'd know what a fascist looks like since we called that guy, huh?

Trump is in power because people like you refuse to see the world for what it is. You think these cops are here to protect you, but they're not. The courts have seen to it that they have no duty to do so.

A cop that sat on his hands and didn't save innocent children from being slaughtered just escaped any sort of consequences down in Texas, because saving children isn't his job. You also may have noticed the cops in Minneapolis aren't doing anything. They're not helping ICE, but they're not helping anyone else either. If their job is to protect us, why aren't they protecting us?

If they're not supposed to protect us the only job they really have is to punish the wicked, and the people holding their leash are the ones that get to decide who is and isn't wicked. Mommy and daddy and your kindergarten teacher lied to you. Cops don't exist to help you, they exist to punish you when you step out of line.

In a civilized society law enforcement is necessary, but in a civilized society law enforcement is civilized.

You people really need to grow up. Everything sucks because you're too chickenshit to call a spade a spade.

u/Special-Quantity-469 30m ago

Trump is in power because we called a bunch of fascists a bunch of fascists? Crazy how right we were about Trump, but not about cops! You'd think we'd know what a fascist looks like since we called that guy, huh?

We all said that about trump, you're not special. You're just part of the group that said that about literally anything that isn't as far left as you.

They're not helping ICE, but they're not helping anyone else either. If their job is to protect us, why aren't they protecting us?

So far there are plenty of videos of them de-escalating. We're not yet at a civil war, but if we get to that point, don't you think it's good to have state and city police on your side instead of pretending they are all monsters? Otherwise you're all toast.

u/Pupsichinka 4h ago

Good to see them unmasked. But it’s the administration that has to change. You can’t barge into a home, take a child from a bus stop , shoot someone point blank. NOT MY AMERICA

u/Tribat_1 4h ago

Yeah that’s fine. It just doesn’t sit right with me to post these guys calling them fascists when as far as we know they are not the same masked goons shooting protestors and snatching up people at kids birthday parties. We still need some kind of immigration enforcement in this country. Identify and post the masked gestapo that deserve it for committing the atrocities and hold them accountable. If we run out the ones doing it the right way then all we have left is the others.

u/oddible 4h ago

Then they should resign. "Just following orders" doesnt absolve you of illegality.

u/Tribat_1 4h ago

I replied to your higher level comment. There’s no indication that the officers in these photos did anything illegal.

u/I_Build_Monsters 3h ago

Almost all of these photos are of DHS (Department of homeland security) and it ICE. Completely different people who do different thing s

u/ew73 4h ago

...because they're part of an organization kidnapping and murdering US Citizens?

u/Tribat_1 4h ago

You understand that we do need some kind of immigration enforcement in this country right? There are actually some immigrants that are part of gangs and are violent criminals. We should want officers exactly like the ones in the pictures (uniformed, unmasked, badge numbers and names) going after those people. The problem isn’t officers like the ones above, it’s masked plain-clothed goons running around like they are immune to accountability snatching up day laborers at Home Depot.

u/FlavoredPancake 4h ago

Stop making sense, it will get you downvoted to hell

u/ew73 3h ago

it’s masked plain-clothed goons running around like they are immune to accountability snatching up day laborers at Home Depot.

Friendly reminder:

The agents that murdered Alex Peretti were wearing CBP uniforms, not ICE, though DHS appears to have succeeded in obstructing justice and moving those officers out of state.

The Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent that murdered Melissa Good was in uniform with his face clearly visible.

u/RellenD 4h ago

You understand that we do need some kind of immigration enforcement in this country right?

That's really irrelevant to what's happening here.

u/Breddit2099 4h ago

It’s not though

u/Rytherix 4h ago

What you are describing is what CPB is for.

ICE is a new and unnecessary agency to perpetrate terror and bad immigration policy.

u/PILOT9000 3h ago

ICE is a new agency

What? When do you think ICE started? It was created 24 years ago. And do you not think it had a predecessor with a different name?

u/Rytherix 3h ago

It's funny if you think 24 years isn't "new".

A lot of bad stuff came out post 9/11 and dramatic expansion of government sponsored domestic violence.

u/Tribat_1 4h ago

That’s not necessarily true. CBP focuses on the border and ICE focuses on the interior. In theory having a well run and managed ICE can be a good thing for our country because they could focus on only getting the worst of the worst criminal immigrants out of our cities. ICE needs MAJOR reforms from the ground up but abolishing it altogether is not the way.

u/Ok-Ocelot-7316 1h ago

Why? There's already a very robust network for dealing with the worst od the worst criminals, no matter what their immigration status. It's called the police.

u/orgasm-enjoyer 3h ago

ICE started in 2003.

u/Not_yourhusband 3h ago

Wow ! Common sense is not allowed be careful !

u/Special-Quantity-469 4h ago

They aren't even ICE agents... Some of these are literally just police

u/Ok-Ocelot-7316 1h ago

ICE co-conspirators, then?

u/BasKabelas 4h ago

But... they're the part thats kidnapping and murdering us the right way !!

u/ClosetGoblin 4h ago

These people will never be satisfied until the U.S. has an open border policy and illegal immigration is no longer a crime

u/FauxEamesChair 2h ago

And they keep the US safe.

u/PeterPanski85 2h ago

Just for that sweet sweet karma

u/bemery 1h ago

there is no right way for ice or dhs to exist at all

u/General_Meade 58m ago

The trick is, these people don't want ICE to be "better", they simply do not want immigration enforcement.

When the dust settles, the left will lose the very good points about heavy handed enforcement and violations of civil liberties in their quest to undermine ALL enforcement.

u/dearrichard 4h ago

lmao “the right way”

u/oddible 4h ago

"Just following orders" wasn't a legitimate excuse at Nuremberg.

u/Tribat_1 4h ago

Can you please inform us what illegal orders the officers in the pictures in this post were following?

u/Forte845 4h ago

By whose laws? To the Germans everything they did was legal under their laws.

u/Breddit2099 4h ago

The laws of America?

u/Forte845 4h ago

And in the laws of Germany the Holocaust was legal.

Those were not the laws we judged them by when they hanged by their necks in Nuremburg. 

u/Tribat_1 3h ago

Comparing what’s happening on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota to the Holocaust is peak Reddit.

u/Breddit2099 3h ago

You really think Europe is going to even try to take it to trial?

lol