At one point, Miller told the assembled local police officers, “I see the guns and badges in this room. You are unleashed. The handcuffs you’re carrying, they’re not on you anymore, they’re on the criminals. And whatever you need to get it done, we’re gonna get it done.”
The 40-year-old stated that they had deployed over 13 government agencies, including the FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, and the Department of Defense, which Hegseth has since rebranded as the “Department of War.”
“The gangbangers that you deal with, they think that they’re ruthless, they have no idea how ruthless we are,” Miller added.
“They think they’re tough, they have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are, and we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”
At the Wednesday appearance, Hegseth thanked the assembled Memphis law officers for working in dangerous places “where politicians spend a lot of time second guessing… the impossible decisions that you have to make that they will never understand.”
Hegseth, Bondi and Miller spent around an hour in the Shelby County Office of Preparedness and left via the rear entrance, according to WREG TV.
Bondi said on X that 53 arrests had been made and 20 illegal firearms seized in the first two days of the Memphis Safe Task Force.
Before colorizationThis guy needs his ass kicked. Just a straight up ass kicking to teach him some humility.
muh smol gubmint and states rites
temu putin say what?
Temu Nosferatu Putin
Remember the time this fuck sprayed hair on his head
From RONCO, for confidence!
What a sexual matador.
Missed the skinhead dress code memo.
[Miller] "They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”
“They” live in a city of over 600,000 people in a nation that hates you, with access to hundreds of millions of firearms. YOU’VE got your adorable little 50 arrests, 20 confiscated firearms and a steady supply of “let’s kill em all bullsh*t” You haven’t thought this through.
He doesn’t understand how the game is played.
You’re supposed to pretend to help people while actually oppressing them.
Saying the quiet part out loud gives the game away.
Or signals
This dude is only 40? That’s a rough 40! Im older than him, and my stress is huge, yet I look 20 years younger than him.
Fascism ages you like nothing else
So much testosterone, and I am saying that as a bad thing.
“The gangbangers that you deal with, they think that they’re ruthless, they have no idea how ruthless we are,” Miller added.
“They think they’re tough, they have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are, and we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”
This reads like edgy fan fiction. Like, I would fully expect to hear this exact dialogue coming from Shadow the Hedgehog in some weird cop AU
Great, now I just keep imagining Miller crying alone in the dark while singing along to his Korn/Three Days Grace “xXmegamiXx” on Spotify at full volume in front of God and everybody like it’s still 2002 or something
He SO WANTS to be Eliot Ness in The Untouchables with that.
They are harassing and intimidating the entire city for no fucking reason other than to harass and intimidate.
From the Memphis subreddit tonight: They are pulling EVERYONE over looking for warrants. Get yo 💩right
Can the helicopters please stop circling?! I do not feel safer…
Not only warrents…this is an opportunity to visually search your car. If the interior of your car is a dumpster…clean it and vacume it. A clean car reflects on the driver, plus gives John Law less time in your car. This action isn’t about curtailing crime as much as intimadating lawful citizens into submission. For many it’s going to be a test. Is standing up for your rights worth a night in jail.
The helicopters are definitely being using as a means to intimidate large portions of the population at once.
Saw armored trucks, black vans, and so many state troopers. 6-7 people pulled over
This is not normal. This is rising fascism at work. Do not forget that.
They have moved on to citizens. Not long now, they are getting practice in at detaining them to try to cow people out of resisting once they start actually arresting them in throwing them in ICE facilities.
Also:
For many it’s going to be a test. Is standing up for your rights worth a night in jail.
IDK what this guy means by “standing up for your rights” but I suspect it means “start an argument with the cops and in the process slip up and give them some good legal reason to arrest you which they will be happy to do, because you have no idea about the law.” Maybe I’m wrong. But if anyone is in this situation I would really advise you not to get all aggressive with the cops thinking that’s going to be the move that saves us all.
I take it to mean what it literally says. Standing up for your rights vs just letting a cop hassle you for no reason and do whatever they please as if those rights don’t exist.
Example, you don’t have to allow a cop to search your vehicle without probable cause. But do you want to risk challenging the cop? What if they end up finding something else to bring you in on?
What’s even more fucked up is that even if you don’t have a reason to worry about them searching your car, giving up your right to refuse could very well allow a cop to plant evidence during a search. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Example, you don’t have to allow a cop to search your vehicle without probable cause. But do you want to risk challenging the cop? What if they end up finding something else to bring you in on?
See, this is a great example. Three possible scenarios:
- “Can I search your car?” “Absolutely not.” (manipulation) “I told you, I don’t give you permission to search my car.” “Alright well here’s some tickets, fuck you, be on your way.”
- “I’m searching your car.” “I do not give you consent to search my car.” “That’s nice. Out of the vehicle.” (gets out) “I’m telling you, you do not have consent to search my car.” (searches anyway)
- “I’m searching your car.” “You can’t do that.” “That’s nice. Out of the vehicle.” “No.” “Sir, get out of the vehicle.” “Fuck you, you don’t have probable cause.” (arguing) (window smash) (dragged out of the car, thrown on the pavement) (car gets searched anyway, maybe now you have some injuries, you’re definitely going to jail and they’re going to plant whatever they were going to plant anyway)
A lot of YouTube lawyers think that behaving like #3 is going to lead to a #1 outcome. It is not. It is going to lead to additional charges, and your lawyer (assuming we’re still in a legal landscape where probable cause things are still relevant at all) is going to be mad at you for fucking up so badly at dealing with the cops. A lot of people do #3 and think they are “standing up for their rights.” Those people usually spend some time in jail (and if ICE is involved, God help you if you hand them some additional rope to hang you with all on your own volition, I don’t even know what that gets you.)
#2 is enough to protect you legally. Now I don’t really know whether you or the Reddit guy are advocating for #3. I have no idea. Maybe you mean having a recording of the cops, maybe you mean having legal aid on standby and making sure you make a record of the illegal search so a good lawyer will be able to toss the case. I have no idea, I’m just speculating. All I’m saying is, I have seen a ton of people who seem to believe they are “standing up for their rights” when they are in reality fucking themselves to a really extreme degree. Please know what you are talking about if you decide to stand up for your rights.
You can be Anne Frank’s family, or you can be Oskar Schindler or Ben Ferencz. Or whatever you want to do. What I am saying is that standing up when the Nazis are stopping you and asking for papers and getting in their face and pointing your finger and yelling about how this isn’t right, man, is probably a tactical mistake (and in in our modern legal system I’ve observed that the type of people who like to do this seem to have this common skill and habit for committing bunches of extra crimes they don’t realize they are committing while they are standing up for their rights, in their mind.)
Why are you assuming anyone is advocating for 3?
- Doesn’t end in tickets, especially right now.
- Still could very well end with you going to jail.
This isn’t just a normal cop on a power trip, these “task force” agents were just given the federal government’s blessing to go wild. They have individuals from the department of wildlife getting to live out their authoritarian fantasies and take out their frustrations on an entire city.
Why are you assuming anyone is advocating for 3?
I need you to do a quick Ctrl-F for “Now I don’t really know”.
This isn’t just a normal cop on a power trip, these “task force” agents were just given the federal government’s blessing to go wild.
I need you to do a quick Ctrl-F for “probably a tactical mistake”. Yes, I get that especially these particular cops are not necessarily going to behave like ordinary city cops. That makes it a worse idea to commit extra crimes and antagonize them, it doesn’t mean it all of a sudden becomes a good idea or an effective way to push back against fascism.
I grew up in Memphis. I’ve known more than one person that had something planted on them during a search by a regular cop during regular times. They didn’t do anything except end up pulled over by the wrong cop because they “seemed suspicious.”
In high school, I knew someone who was stopped and searched while walking in the wrong part of town, then arrested as a minor for carrying too many condoms in their purse. They were a trans 17 year old, and the cops put them in jail with adult men and laughed while they cried bc they were so scared.
You do not have to do anything wrong to end up a victim of unjust fascist bullshit. You never have. Now, under an authoritarian takeover, it’s not just a possibility that it could always happen, it’s almost a guarantee.
And I’ve observed many times people reacting to all that that you just laid out, by getting super-hostile with the cops and committing additional crimes in the course of that hostility. Never once did it overthrow the system of fascism or make their life any easier. If you want to talk about how to change all that system and make the justice back again part of the equation, then sure, I think that’s super worthwhile and we should talk about it (very genuinely.)
I’m in my positive future phase today, so I’m imagining how people like Peter Thiel, pretty old by then, reminisce about the biggest mistakes of their lives past:
“So yeah, at first we thought it was a genius idea - my idea btw - to put raving media pundits in positions of power. Who could’ve foreseen it would all end like that.”
Maybe even with a nostalgic tear for long-diseased Uncle Donny, everybody loved him, he wasn’t even the worst of the monsters now, was he.
We’re definitely in the “Oops! All Joffrey’s” chapter of America’s game of thrones.
53 arrests in 2 fucking days? For what?
Existing While Black or Brown.
You forgot Existing While Poor or Leftist as well.
It’s an older crime, but you’ll find it quite
unbreakable… uhmm, legal
And in their haste to prove how “hard core” they really are, some jackass with the task force has already managed to roll his vehicle on top of another vehicle that was just sitting at a red light, and put some poor kid in the hospital.
I hope he sues the state and federal government.
Unmarked car involved in crash, ends up on top of vehicle in Frayser, witnesses say
Witnesses told WREG Wednesday evening that the unmarked vehicle was chasing the other car when it was hit going through an intersection at Frayser Boulevard and Watkins Street.
The unmarked vehicle had its blue lights on but did not have sirens on when it entered the intersection, witnesses said.
Who needs sirens during a chase? People should just expect you to come barrelling through an intersection any moment.
Witnesses said that the woman driving down Watkins Street collided with an unmarked vehicle that was chasing another car on Frayser Boulevard.
A witness reported that the collision caused the unmarked car to become airborne and land on top of another vehicle at a red light.
This is so fucking dumb and infuriating. Straight out of Idiocracy. Day 2 and you’ve already almost killed someone’s child who happened to be in the way of your airborne vehicle.
“And let me be very clear. I am a career prosecutor. If you touch a law enforcement officer, it is a crime and you are going to jail. We are arresting anyone who touches any of you,” said Bondi.
Honesty expecting Bondi to claim that kid was with antifa.
Would someone please lock this goddamn Nazi cuck up?
an insult to cucks to even associate him with them, honestly
They’re trying desperately to turn the US into a totalitarian police state. Not that it wasn’t before, but man they really hate freedom.
