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OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 02:14 PM Jul 2020

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Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
1. All I can tell you is that people with law enforcement experience on Twitter
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 02:18 PM
Jul 2020

who have analyzed the abduction videos are saying these people are fit, well equipped and extremely well trained. They are so casual about what the are doing, like they've done this for years, hundreds and hundreds of times. They have no fear and they do not hesitate. They are not Proud Boys or some weekend militia. My former yard maintenance guy is a volunteer police officer in my city: he weighs three hundred pounds and is five foot six.

I'm going with their opinions that these people are the SWAT equivalent of US Marshals and Border Patrol (or something related to these). But I also think we should look at Erik Prince's operation.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
3. Erik Prince was my first thought, as well. Another lucrative contract.
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 02:24 PM
Jul 2020

The really scary thing is what would happen if the white supremacists, child traffickers, etc., grabbed someone off the street and took them to an unknown location? Who's going to stop them?

We have a long way to go before we get this country back to normal.

monmouth4

(9,686 posts)
7. I'm glad you mentioned Erik Prince, my money is on him and his goons. n/t
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 03:32 PM
Jul 2020

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
10. International mercenaries at his command. what could go wrong?
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 06:16 PM
Jul 2020

GeorgeGist

(25,311 posts)
8. I think they're a HOAX
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 03:44 PM
Jul 2020

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
14. 😂😂✨
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 07:48 PM
Jul 2020

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. We don't know who they are
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 02:18 PM
Jul 2020

We don't even know what government agency they might be with. The Naval Academy graduate they swung batons on wasn't very impressed with their technique. So they could very well be cosplay civilians getting to act out their toughguy fantasies on the crunchy granola soft hippies they think inhabit Portland.

LeftInTX

(25,146 posts)
4. These don't see like those types of volunteers
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 02:35 PM
Jul 2020

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
5. Right. We have already seen in Portland the police white power signing and telling rw gun toters to
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 02:43 PM
Jul 2020

get out of the way cause they were going to be hitting the protesters with tear gas.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,965 posts)
6. For all we know they may have been deputized into federal units just days ago
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 03:05 PM
Jul 2020

They seem to take delight in whacking people and abducting others.

Brother Buzz

(36,387 posts)
9. I would suggest they are simply garden variety mercenaries
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 03:56 PM
Jul 2020

and by employing these thugs, it conveniently gives them wiggle room by circumventing accountability.

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
11. If only one or two could be "interviewed"
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 06:20 PM
Jul 2020

This is my concern. Some were hired & operated under “private contracts” after Katrina.


Brother Buzz

(36,387 posts)
12. I imagine if the bona fide police challenged one to produce ID and couldn't.....
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 06:49 PM
Jul 2020

they could arrange for a trip in the back of a 'Black Maria' for more intensive interview downtown.

rockfordfile

(8,699 posts)
13. Well whoever, they're going to prison for assault when said and done
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 07:23 PM
Jul 2020

They're traitors, the way the pos assaulted the veteran.

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