#SlaveCatchers
My hot take is that many of those PDs started as slavecatchers. "serve and protect" is for people worse than criminals, and that's not a new development.
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
ICE are slavecatchers

That's what they think their job is anyway

Or "Professional Rapist"

The atrocities are the point

They wanted him to march through the snow and didn't care he had all the proper identification to prove they were harassing an innocent citizen

Just racists on a crime spree
a man in a knight 's helmet is saying `` stop ! you violated the law ! '' .
ALT: a man in a knight 's helmet is saying `` stop ! you violated the law ! '' .
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
They're slavecatchers

That's what ICE are

They're just as bad as slavecatchers back in the 1800s and they have the same mission

Slaveowners always thought the end would be deportation of all those useful people they raped into existence

Now the slavecatchers deport by default

History repeating
people learn to love their chains written on a screen
ALT: people learn to love their chains written on a screen
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
ICE are 2025 slavecatchers

They're following the same mantra

They've just stopped pretending there's any legitimacy

They target anyone they want to rape, pillage, or steal

It's basic piracy at this point

Not even a thin veneer of law being enforced

Just brutal thuggery to target anyone
They are exactly like the slave catchers who were employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their enslavers. The people that work for ICE are no different. We need John Brown to return and do what he dose best.
December 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Are they aware of how many of their fave slavecatchers are Italian American? Are all those Italian American cops aware that their friends will shank them someday?
losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Slavecatchers need adrenaline?
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Let the slavecatchers know what civilized people think of them!
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Tell the slavecatchers what civilized people think of them at every opportunity!
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's why they keep moving the goons from one city to another: there just aren't that many of them. They need to bring the majority of the slavecatchers with them to whatever the "new" city is or they'll be even more outnumbered.
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Seeing Chicago resisters calling ICE/BP "the black and tans" warms my history-loving heart.

Let the slavecatchers know exactly what civilized people think of them!
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
America's America. Not just Trump's. Police did this all the time before Trump, and they'll continue to do it after him.

Because that's what slavecatchers do.
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Let the slavecatchers know what decent people think of them!
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The power of "wait a minute, I hate Donald Trump" and "hey where'd all the jobs go", combined with "every great-great-great-great-grandparent I have from the 1850s appeared to me in a dream and told me to crush the slavecatchers"
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Fucking slavecatchers are back, y'all.
November 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Of course, these freedom papers were routinely ignored and the #slavecatchers would bind them again.
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Slavecatchers 2.0.
“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”

Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.
theintercept.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Tell the slavecatchers what civilized people think of them, and never frikkin' stop!
October 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Courts have been very clear that the ICE/DHS/CBP game of whack-a-detainee, its constant shuffling of slave jails and slave convoys and slavecatchers, really does hinder the courts and make them reluctant to find jurisdiction. That system's being tuned to maximum gain
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
One way to think of this is as an industrialized system because it creates a network of slavecatchers and slave jails that can move people around the state, but a functional systems approach would look at this through its inevitable functional role. This is a system for losing people.
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"not wearing a body camera or any obvious visible identification"

That's called a gang member. Public servants are loyal to the public and are subject to laws that hold them accountable to said public.

But ofc, slavecatchers were never public servants, and the USA was never beholden to the public.
Ellis brings up this encounter: When “one federal officer, who was not wearing a body camera or any obvious visible identification shot … Enrique Bahena in the neck from five feet away with a pepper ball,” according to the court filing.
October 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The fact that I know nothing bad will ever happen to this iteration of slavecatchers/gestapo has brought me nothing but depression
October 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Stop letting people suggest that the police are on our side or that they can be reformed– defunding them was never even enough. Police only exist to serve capital and enforce the "law," AKA the whims of the rich and powerful. They started as slavecatchers and still continue in that same tradition.
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Yep!

Let the slavecatchers know what civilized people think of them.
October 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM