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Re:Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills by scarface74 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:06PM (#34570105)
I’ve never known federal police to stop and frisk, racial profile, be accused of police brutality or stop someone for “suspiciously” walking through his own neighborhood where the county is only 2.9% Black (my 6 foot 3 step son who grew up in the burbs all of his life), we lived in the most affluent county in the metro area (this was Atlanta metro not saying much in the grand scheme of things) and we had a household income twice the median since I work remotely for $BigTech.

But that didn’t stop them from thinking “we didn’t belong here”.

It’s the same reason NWA never wrote a song called “Fuck the FBI”…

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Re:Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills by slackfan on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:20PM (#34570274)
They absolutely do all of that, if you live within 100 miles of a federal border, and anywhere else they happent to have jurisdiction. Being detained by feds sans warrant is patently unfun, lemme tell you that.

I suppose I'm happy for you having the privilege to live such a sheltered life where you don't see any of this.

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Re:Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills by scarface74 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:30PM (#34570380)
You mean Customs and Border Protection - another department that is aggrandized by the same people who “Back the Blue”?
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Re:Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills by slackfan on Sunday January 29, 2023 @07:43PM (#34574445)
No, I mean any and all Fed agencies, FBI, Border Patrol, Secret Service, etc, etc.

Yes, even the Postal Marshals.

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Re:Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills by jakelazaroff on Sunday January 29, 2023 @07:30PM (#34574353)
Are you serious? Look up COINTELPRO. The FBI very literally tried to blackmail MLK into committing suicide. They helped Chicago law enforcement assassinate Fred Hampton. They tried to undermine the civil rights movement at every turn.

When we say “defund the police”, it includes federal law enforcement.

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