what the fuck did i just read? this is completely fucked:
He claims he was then strip-searched, forced to give blood samples, a facial scan and fingerprints.
“Later I was taken back in, and the situation got even worse. I was pushed up against a wall and was strip-searched with a lot of force. They were incredibly harsh and used physical force the whole time,” he claimed.
I seriously doubt it was just the meme - but shitty fanatics do happen to use excessive force for no reason
What causes you to doubt it was just the meme?
It’s a defense mechanism. If people are having their liberties stripped away and are being subject to violence over something so little as a harmless meme, then it could happen to anybody including yourself.
But if there are details not being reported on that would give the border agents a legitimate reason to assault the victim here, like real threats against government officials, being a menace through customs, or otherwise something any normal person would not do, then the victim deserved it and normal law-abiding people can continue to feel secure knowing they’re safe from this treatment so long as they don’t do whatever the victim did to deserve that treatment.
There’s a similar effect for sexual assault victims: “They were asking for it because of what they were wearing/who they misplaced their trust in/where they chose to walk alone at night”. It’s all designed to put fault on the victim in order to maintain a false sense of security for the average person.
Misreporting or straight out false reporting in the media is a thing. As a rule of thumb the more emotionally charged the news is the higher chance of it being a manipulation.
This was the case of George Floyd murder where media consistently avoided reporting that victim was a repeated criminal.
I fell for that once. Not gonna happen again
Ah, the old “he committed a crime (but the courts let him out), so he deserves to die” angle. Love to see it.
Have you ever been ticketed for speeding? That very literally makes you a criminal. Do you think you deserve to die for that?
When criminals don’t have rights, you don’t have rights, because it’s trivial to label you a criminal.
