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Nonilex
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated. #gettyreportage #getty at the #Whipple Federal building in #Minneapolis.”
Photo by Pierre Lavie.

#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

Getty photojournalist John Abernathy is seen face down on ground pinned & surrounded by federal agents. His arm is outstretched & his camera is midair as he tossed it to another photographer so it wouldn't be confiscated. Photo by Pierre Lavie.
Getty photojournalist John Abernathy is seen face down on ground pinned & surrounded by federal agents. His arm is outstretched & his camera is midair as he tossed it to another photographer so it wouldn't be confiscated. Photo by Pierre Lavie.
Getty photojournalist John Abernathy is seen face down on ground pinned & surrounded by federal agents. His arm is outstretched & his camera is midair as he tossed it to another photographer so it wouldn't be confiscated. Photo by Pierre Lavie.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Nonilex

We are in totalitarian freefall at this point you can call it fascism as well .

This is total collapse as anyone who’s been paying attention understands. The institutions that are supposed to preserve law and order don’t exist. They do not exist in the United States.

The path out of this relies on Americans viscerally understanding this fact

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Nonilex
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@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Follow up on #Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy…

He later posted this image of his camera sitting on top of what appears to be a court date notice. The caption is very cryptic, but from the picture I infer his camera survived & he was in fact arrested. No word on whether he had any injuries, though at a minimum I’d expect bruises. An absolutely #unconstitutional #arrest.

#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #ICE #CBP

Image posted by photojournalist John Abernathy of his camera sitting on top of what appears to be a court date notice on a table top
Image posted by photojournalist John Abernathy of his camera sitting on top of what appears to be a court date notice on a table top
Image posted by photojournalist John Abernathy of his camera sitting on top of what appears to be a court date notice on a table top
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CompulsoryAccount7746
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@CA7746@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Nonilex John Abernathy on bsky: "I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye."
https://bsky.app/profile/anotherjon.bsky.social/post/3mcmzzjrjyc2u

In WW2, the company famously "transferred" Jewish employees to their offices outside of Germany, gave them a camera & a new job. The Leica Freedom Train.
https://legionmagazine.com/the-leica-freedom-train/

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The Leica Freedom Train - Legion Magazine

Adolf Hitler had no sooner come to power in 1933—appointed after a series of Nazi Party electoral victories, no less—than Ernst Leitz II acted. The German industrialist, whose father revolutionized photography with his iconic 35mm Leica rangefinder camera, and daughter Elsie Kuehn-Leitz started covertly “transferring” the firm’s Jewish workers to far-flung Leitz company offices in …
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woodenmachines
woodenmachines
@woodenmachines@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Nonilex to be clear, the people #protesting #ice are not terrorists, but the federal governments response to protestors is exactly how you create terrorist organizations. Something the US government has a lot of experience doing in many parts of the world.

An empire in decline turns inward

This will end badly if something doesn’t change. I have zero faith in the #democrats and the #supremecourt and most Americans are too self absorbed and or financially stressed for #generalstrike

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Carsten
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@carsten@minnesotasocial.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Nonilex it is time that journalists and citizens start suing the department of homeland security. Demand trump size damages. Go for $ 5 billion for assault and trauma.

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