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Swede

(37,578 posts)
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 08:35 AM Saturday

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress

They want you to feel fear.

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-10-10T18:31:09.493Z
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GiqueCee

(2,891 posts)
1. Everyone must know...
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 09:21 AM
Saturday

... that the irredeemably evil Nosferatu Miller and puppy killer Noem are primarily behind these obscene atrocities. They cannot be allowed to plea-bargain their way out of punishment for such utterly malignant crimes.
Every participant in Trump's terror campaign must face justice. Legal justice, but every bit as harsh as the misery they have inflicted on the entire nation. NO forgiveness. Ever. They are monsters and traitors.

SamKnause

(14,508 posts)
2. So many people need to be jailed for life for what they have done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 09:24 AM
Saturday

They view the constitution as nothing but paper, toilet paper that they are wiping their evil asses on.

They truly hate this country.

walkingman

(9,939 posts)
4. Wow, just wow. This admin is trying to divide Americans. Well, it's working.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 09:58 AM
Saturday

I want nothing to do with anyone that supports these assholes.

ForgedCrank

(2,903 posts)
5. This happens
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:05 AM
Saturday

more often than people realize. I've been on the other side of this on the job in the distant past.
Anyone who is arrested is always asked if they are feeling suicidal or if they are thinking about harming themselves during intake. Some people who are being arrested say yes when they probably really aren't. There are various reasons for it, but most times is that people in custody are grasping for the few remaining methods available to them for trying to control their situation. But saying yes to these type of questions sets a mandatory procedure into motion, and it would be everything this guy experienced. Almost every time I saw this happen, the person later was trying to un-do the damage and explain that they were just mad and didn't mean it. Unfortunately, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube once it's said. The resulting procedure is mandatory.
Did he give an affirmative answer? I don't know, I wasn't there and if he did, he most likely isn't going to say he did. Granted, he shouldn't have been arrested in the first place, but the condition he explained fits the exact profile of the procedure for detainees who answer in the affirmative and that caught my attention.
His improper arrest aside, I just had to mention all that. If you aren't serious and honest, NEVER answer in the affirmative to these questions no matter how mad you are. The lawyers have made sure that this will happen if you do, and once you answer yes, there is no taking it back until the eval process is completed, and that can take days depending on circumstances

walkingman

(9,939 posts)
6. Good information...but this is an example of why people don't trust our law enforcement.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:45 AM
Saturday

From a distance, if is not you personally having to live through the nightmare, it seems wrong - but from personal experience I can tell you that there are many people who are given a few weeks training and then a badge and a gun and the authority to do any fucking thing they feel like (ICE being the perfect example).

As a young man (white male) age 22, working the evening shift (3-11) at a university hospital medical records in 1972 to pay my way through college, I left work at 11PM and stopped at a nearby gas station to fill up. I had long hair and when I pulled in I noticed a cop sitting there looking at me. When I pulled away he followed me for a short while and then put on his lights.

I pulled over, gave him my DL etc. He asked me to get out of the car...put my hands on the vehicle...proceeded to beat me with his nightstick. By then his buddies had arrived - all laughing I guess because he had beaten up a "long-haired hippy" (lots of turmoil in the Vietnam era).

They drove me around in a paddy wagon for a couple of hours - told me I had two choices - get out, no charges filed or go to jail. I got out, had to call for someone to pick me up (about 1AM by then).

My point is that because of this I have never trusted cops ...still don't today(now age 75)...I think most are PIGS and maybe not the lowest elements of our society but pretty close.

So these ICE folks are simply a continuation of the BS that I am sure minorities have to deal with on a daily basis. I hear "Make America Great Again" and I wonder when was it "great"?

Maybe better than most but a long way from great since our founding - depending on you class and color, probably. Do I hate America....NO, but I understand its reality.

Joinfortmill

(19,151 posts)
7. My hatred for ICE knows no bounds. None. I hope Justice will some day come roaring at them and kicks their asses.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 11:16 AM
Saturday

FakeNoose

(38,965 posts)
8. Are these posted on Xwitter? That's where they need to be seen ....
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 11:36 AM
Saturday

The folks who read BlueSky are liberal, blue Dems who probably have 100% more empathy for these atrocities. Yes it's important for them to know what's going on, but the crazy MAGAs are NOT seeing the stories. They get all their news from Faux Noise and Xwitter.

The MAGA-cultists might as well be wearing blinders and massive headphones over their ears.

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