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This isn't "whistleblowing" and I hope whomever did this spends a long time in prison.

Regardless of what your feelings on ICE enforcement are...

While there's more than enough room to criticize both agencies these days, and if I did work for one of them I'd be retaining personal legal representation, doxxing people is not the answer. Sure, if some bad actors can be sued/prosecuted, that's not a bad thing per se.

But we're already living in a world where US Senators and Supreme Court Justices have had to have security provided because of death threats from both sides of the aisle. We don't need to be encouraging vigilantes. No side is so noble that people can't do evil in its name.

I’m not in favor of doxing.

But let’s be clear, it’s not a few bad apples. ICE by design is operating outside the law.

The videos are endless, people outside their homes on a walk questioned and threatened with arrest if they do not produce ID, face scanned and so on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qbawlr/minnea...

They’ve blocked off whole neighborhoods going door to door questioning people.

Let alone the videos of drive by pepper spray, drawing their weapons on people, shoving people to the ground…

These aren’t one off events. This is everyday in Minneapolis.

Doxxing extra-legal operatives is moral.

When the policing and justice system fails the people, mob rule is (sadly, imperfectly, but obviously) the only means of redress.

Successful, prolonged mob rule is called "revolution", and considered completely legitimate, ironically.

I read that during the irish occupation, irish policemen (so, working for the british governement) were rejected and isolated socially, treated as traitors to their people.

Which led them to eventually refuse to continue oppressing their people for money, the revolution, independance, all that.

I kinda see connections, don't you ?

What purpose does this serve other than to incite violence? Is this not a key ingredient of fascism?
A tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerence, lest it gets destroyed by it.

You cannot give anything to fascists, we know what they do, history is there, they didn't change, they're doing exactly the same thing.