On Friday night on U Street, an area full of bars and restaurants, a large group of FBI and other federal agents took part in arresting a single man for publicly smoking marijuana, according to witnesses. (Possession of marijuana is legal in the District, though public consumption is not.)

“There’s so much other shit happening in this city, and you guys are arresting him for smoking weed?” an onlooker asks feds, who appear embarrassed, in a video posted by independent journalist Hannah Gais. “For weed!”

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    On Thursday in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, where federal agents appear to have left a dildo in the place of an anti-ICE banner they purloined a week before, residents confronted and pursued three apparently off-duty federal agents, cursing at them and taunting them about the sex toy. “Did you forget your dildo?” the woman shooting the video repeatedly asked.

    I hadn’t heard of that one.

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    Hard to be tough on crime when it’s at an all time low. Seems like the “Agents” are the ones committing the crimes.

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      I saw some talk of them reclassifying it, although I have no idea why Taco would do that, since the excuse of weed has been used for decades to crack down on “undesirables”.

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    These “Feds” should be embarrassed. The fact the weed is illegal should embarrass every person out there. The fact this regime hasn’t been dismantled by common citizens (yk, the ones that “gave” it some sort of authority.) yet, embarrasses me. Handle your sh*t you whiny petulant GOP frass for facts clowns.

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    Let your local magats know how you feel for them subjecting us all to this bullshit. Make them feel as uncomfortable as they have made us all feel. Tail them for no reason while driving, be aggressive or outright shun them. Call them hateful names and mirror their behavior back on them. I have noticed that they get especially uncomfortable when you do it for apparently no reason at all. They end up so confused and scared they don’t even know what to do about the situation.

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      Make them feel as uncomfortable as they have made us all feel. Tail them for no reason while driving, be aggressive or outright shun them. Call them hateful names and mirror their behavior back on them.

      The worst of them feel more emboldened than ever and I bet they start threatening - if they haven’t already - to call ICE on you.

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    How inclusive of the army to enlist little people, they’re barely bigger than wheels and yet they protect freedom