At least one journalist was hospitalized after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were seen cursing out, grabbing and shoving reporters on a public elevator.According to amNewYork, ICE agents were apprehending a suspected immigrant inside the elevator at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan o…

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    Looking for self-defense classes for my SO. Sure, it’s illegal to fight back, but I mean it mostly to minimize their attack. Also, encouraging them to do daily calisthenics. Fortunately they’ve always been athletic so it’s not a huge encouragement.

    We’re not their target yet, but I’ve no doubt that soon everyone will be.

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      It’s going to be illegal for a lot of us to even exist soon. Might as well fight back.

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      It’s not illegal to fight back, this is literally what the second amendment is for.

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            If you’re EXTREMELY lucky, I would say. In this climate, other ice or law enforcement are just going to kill you. Or at the very least throw you in prison, into a system where you also might just disappear. Without seeing a lawyer or your family, to another country, where you may not be a citizen or have ever lived. And possibly into their foreign prison system directly, into an evil vilainesque torture prison designed for nobody to ever leave

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            Assuming you survive the hellfire of bullets that will rain down on you if you try, that is.

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      Going for the balls and throat is always a good self defense option.

      But honestly, unless you’re training very regularly, the training in those classes will be forgotten once the adrenaline kicks in. For most people it needs to be committed to muscle memory to use in a panic situation.

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      Sure, it’s illegal to fight back,

      Oh, so they’ve dialed another notch into fascism, i see…