Kash Patel dragged for ‘hit a cop... go to jail’ threat to LA anti-ICE protesters
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Social media users were quick to point out the different stance taken by the administration in relation to the January 6 rioters – hundreds of whom were pardoned by President Trump

Social media users were quick to point out the different stance taken by the administration in relation to the January 6 rioters – hundreds of whom were pardoned by President Trump

FBI Director Kash Patel has been mocked online after responding to anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, telling demonstrators that if you “hit a cop, you’re going to jail."

“Doesn’t matter where you came from, how you got here, or what movement speaks to you. If the local police force won’t back our men and women on the thin blue line, we @FBI will,” Patel wrote on X on Saturday.

Social media users were quick to point out the different stance taken by the administration in relation to the January 6 rioters – hundreds of whom were pardoned by President Donald Trump.

During the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in 2021, more than 140 police officers were injured. One, Brian Sicknick, died the following day and several others took their own lives in the days and weeks after the attack. The rioters had been urged to go up to the Capitol and “fight like hell or you won’t have a country” on the day his election defeat to Joe Biden was being certified. Trump was criminally charged over his actions although the charges were dropped when he was re-elected in 2024.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    322·
    2 days ago

    Dragged? Man I was hoping he was slammed. Or blasted. On the youtube version, of course, he’d be destroyed.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
      10·
      2 days ago

      Kids these days.

      Back in my day, you either got rekt, or you got pwned.

      Too many verbs now.

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    Jesus in a juicer. It’s the exact kind of fake tough talk, from the same sort of ineffectual little posers who ran Germany.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    Get down from your high horse. What about your actions says that you even believe in this rule of law nonsense?

    I dare you to give these people a reason to believe in justice. Perhaps they think if they fight hard enough they’ll be pardoned by the next king. Maybe shouldn’t have done that!

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    143·
    2 days ago

    I hate these headlines of “social media heroes rag on jerk.”

    You fed the troll! You all get a pat on the back. Now go back to corporate controlled algorithmic scrolling and keep fighting the good fight…

    People believe that shit, too. Like, I see a lot of sentiment on Reddit for staying on Reddit just to counter the “other guy.” Yes, that is exactly what Reddit wants!

    • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      this way of thinking isn’t very productive either cuz you’re constantly on the run from whatever you perceive as your controller at the time

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 days ago

        I’m saying fuck the system. Social media, and the perception that it’s some kind of open, fair forum, is what’s screwing over the world right now.

        I want people to act out however they can as long as it’s not on a platform that literally controls their voice, who else hears it, and how. And I want activists and leaders to stop pondering what’s going wrong out loud as they walk through a sea of people glued to their feeds.

        Vindicating Tweets like this article is not helping. It’s like praising party-approved dissent in the Gestapo newsletter.

        In short:

        Don’t feed the trolls.

    • mhague@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      I don’t care if it’s deliberate or not but there does seem to be some pressure release valves in society preventing meaningful action. I guess that’s why alt right pipelines work. It’s about capturing pent up energy, stoking it, and siccing it on fascists.