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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:40 PM 14 hrs ago

The trigger-happy federal agents doing Donald Trump's bidding are completely out of control -- and no American is safe

nder wannabe dictator Donald Trump, the federal agencies of the United States tasked with keeping the nation safe are rapidly becoming a grave threat to the physical safety of the American people, as trigger-happy officers open fire on those they’re supposed to be protecting with increasing frequency in communities across the country.

Consider these recent events:

On September 5th, 2025, an ICE agent shot and killed thirty-eight-year-old Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez in Franklin Park, Illinois. Trump’s minions claimed their agents had targeted him “because of a criminal history that included reckless driving.” However, “CBS News Chicago investigators found that he only had a record of four traffic violations between 2010 and 2019 for offenses that included speeding, an expired driver’s license, not having insurance and not having a child restraint seat.”

Then, on October 5th, 2025, agents shot thirty-one-year-old Marimar Martinez in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. Martinez was not seriously injured and was thus able to drive away. Although she committed no crime, Trump’s minions charged her and a companion for assault and attempted murder. But prosecutors were forced to drop all charges against both of them only a few weeks later, with her attorney stating: “These agents jumped out and shot Ms. Martinez, a U.S. citizen, whose only crime was warning her fellow community members that ICE was in the neighborhood… That is not a crime. She didn’t deserve to be shot.”

Yesterday in Minneapolis, an ICE agent murdered thirty-seven year old Minnesotan Renee Nicole Good in a street not far from where George Floyd was murdered while cameras were rolling, with Trump’s enablers immediately forced to lock themselves into a dizzying spin mode in a fruitless attempt to dismiss the incontrovertible video evidence that showed what actually happened. While Good lay dying in her vehicle, ICE prevented a bystander who identified himself as a doctor from assisting her. Trump’s minions subsequently locked state authorities out of the investigation, keeping vital evidence to themselves to prevent Minnesota law enforcement from being able to establish what happened and when.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/01/the-trigger-happy-federal-agents-doing-donald-trumps-bidding-are-completely-out-of-control-and-no-american-is-safe.html

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The trigger-happy federal agents doing Donald Trump's bidding are completely out of control -- and no American is safe (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 14 hrs ago OP
Underqualified, greenhorn agents at that. nt eppur_se_muova 12 hrs ago #1
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