I read this article in RawStory:
The article is about U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis saying that federal agents must issue two warnings if they determine that crowds pose a risk. It notes that on Friday, “she ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to personally appear in court this week after he appeared to violate that order, which barred agents from deploying teargas and other weapons against journalists, protesters, and anyone not posing a threat.”
I highlighted three words in the caption to the photo they used: “a police officer” because the man shown with the pepper ball gun is obviously not a police officer. Police officers do not dress like this and wear masks under normal circumstances. It is one of Trump’s enforcment thugs from who knows what agency. All we really know about him is that he likely works out a lot to have massive shoulders and biceps. This, to people like Pete Hegseth, qualifies one to be a soldier. Perhaps Bovino thinks along these lines as well:
Here’s more about him from TPM:
Excerpt:
Bovino himself has a flair for performance. He calls his sector of the U.S.-Mexico border the “premier sector” in flashy, internet-friendly videos. In one, he threatens undocumented border-crossers with an “all-expenses paid trip to Guantanamo Bay.” On X (even his handle is written to tout his rank: @CMDROpAtLargeCA) he cultivates support among right-wing influencers while lashing out at Democratic politicians and sparring with random users who criticize him as an authoritarian; those interlocutors have ranged from actor Henry Winkler to an account with five followers.
Bovino combines Bull Connor’s aggression with Don King’s showmanship: a man willing to oversee violent, aggressive operations like Chicago’s “Midway Blitz” but, just as critically, to promote the fight to as many people as possible.
What’s made Bovino’s tactics so shocking to local officials and observers across the country is not just the way they merge military-style operations with immigration enforcement, but the way in which the spectacle itself is intensely calibrated. It often involves sending CBP and ICE employees to perform work for which they are not trained: the CBP does not prepare its employees for urban policing or crowd control, Kerlikowske said. It’s a different mission from what many officers joined to do, he added.
He’s also been open about something that most law enforcement officials would strenuously deny: he applies racial appearance in law enforcement decisions. He told WBEZ, a Chicago radio station, that people are detained based on “how they look.”
Adolph didn’t give a hoot about how his henchmen looked or how hunky they were the way Trump does. If he did he wouldn’t have had Himmler as the head of the SS:
For that matter, this picture doesn’t look like it was taken in front of a Nazi version of Gold’s Gym:
Leaders conference of the NSDAP in Bad Elster. From left to right in the front row, Heinrich Himmler, Wilhelm Frick, Adolf Hitler, Franz von Epp, Hermann Göring, in the second row, Martin Mutschmann, Joseph Goebbels, Julius Schaub, in the third row, Karl Fritsch. Not pictured is Adolph Eichmann:
Here’s another group photo which includes Heinrich Müller (head of the Gestapo) along with other high Nazi leaders:
None of Hitler’s cadre of ruthless psychopaths had to appear on Fox News or other media to audition for their role in the Reich. I have to begrudingly give Trump credit nonetheless for putting together a Hitlerian assembly who are managing to help him institute a police state in far less time than it took the Führer.
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