Source: CounterPunch
by John W Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
“Masked gunmen. Tasers. Tear gas. Pepper spray. Unmarked vehicles. Intimidation tactics. Brutality. Racial profiling. Children traumatized. Families terrorized. Journalists targeted. Citizens detained. Disabled individuals, minors, the elderly, pregnant women, military veterans — snatched off the streets. Private property destroyed. This is not a war zone. This is what now passes for law-and-order policing by ICE agents in Trump’s America—and it is not making America safer or greater. What began as an agency tasked with enforcing immigration law has metastasized into a domestic terror force. … Make no mistake: this is not how a constitutional republic operates. It is how a dictatorship behaves when it decides the rule of law — in this case, the Bill of Rights — is optional.” (10/17/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/police-state-bounty-hunters/