YouTube just now happened to recommend a video that had a title like "this is Trump's America". The comment section is flooded with angry people calling the cops shown in the video "gestapo" and how they are engaging in "racial profiling" and asking how this is different from Nazi Germany, and calling Trump and the cops all their favorite pet names, and recounting how they have allegedly seen masked ICE agents take non-white people off the streets simply and solely because they were non-white, and yada yada yada ad infinitum.
So the video must be really bad, doesn't it? Surely it shows something like an army of ICE agents storming some street, rounding up black people, assaulting them and putting them in handcuffs and taking them away, threatening them with weapons, with people screaming and crying... stuff like that?
Nope.
The video shows a car stopping and three men, who might or might not be federal agents, stepping out, and the guy with the camera laughing and taunting them, the men asking him something and trying to detain him, the guy jogging away, still giggling, until the cops catch him up. And the video ends there.
The entire video clip is like 30 seconds long and absolutely lacks all context. Even assuming that the men in that car were genuinely federal agents, the video does in no way show why they stopped, or why they wanted to question the guy. Quite notably, and as mentioned, the guy was laughing and giggling at them, taunting them. He was quite clearly not in fear of his life and safety. In fact, you can't even see the guy at all (eg. what his skin color is).
It's also notable that the men started pursuing the guy only after he started jogging away. Before that, they were just asking him something. The video also cuts before we can see what the men did to the guy once they caught him (and it's quite clear that whoever posted the video cut it deliberately at that point, to leave the outcome unclear, on purpose.)
Even if those men were actual federal agents, there's a million reasons why they wanted to question the guy. In fact, I didn't see any "ICE" letters on their backs, and it was completely unclear who they were. They might not have been ICE agents at all (assuming they were actual agents and the video wasn't just staged.)
Yet, that's not the impression you get from the comment section. In fact, the comment section has pretty much nothing to do with what's happening in the video. The commenters are just making a huge amount of assumptions about the video, even though they have no idea even why the (alleged) cops wanted to question the guy. They had just jumped to the conclusion that they were ICE agents who wanted to deport the guy (or take him to some concentration camp) merely because he's black (even though you can't even see his skin color in the video.)
One has to really wonder if they never get tired of this kind of fear-mongering, of living in constant fear and anger, spouting angry comments day after day, month after month, year after year, non-stop every single day, feeding their brains with this kind of video to make themselves even angrier and angrier all the time. At some point it has to affect one's psyche.
Although given that they are all psychopaths, their psyche has already been affected and can't get any worse...
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