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Twelve FBI agents who were fired this year for taking a knee during racial justice protests in the heated summer of 2020 are suing the Bureau and its director, alleging unlawful retaliation.

The former special agents—who together have nearly 200 years of experience—once received awards for helping disrupt mass shootings, expose foreign spies and thwart cyber attacks.

But they say as elite federal law enforcement agents, they never received training on crowd control, nor did they have riot shields, gas masks, or helmets when they faced down volatile crowds in the streets of Washington, D.C., in June 2020.

It goes on... https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/g-s1-100970/fbi-agents-kneel-protest-lawsuit

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

it's dumb retaliatory bullshit but it was smug and insulting and tactless to kneel in the first place! for fuck's sake

liberalism
this IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR TO COMMEMORATE A BLACK MAN MURDERED BY A COP WHO KNEELED FOR EIGHT MINUTES ON HIS NECK

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

@Civility@hexbear.net is this true?

[-] Civility@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

😤

[-] Midnight_Pearl@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago

signs up for the racism enforcement organization

said organization is racist

how could this have happened?!

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago

Suing? Why not take a page out of the dorner book if you got unlawfully terminated from your law enforcement job?

[-] Lowleekun@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago

Someday might feel compassion for law enforcement but it is not today and for sure not for FBI agents.

[-] SeizeTheBeans@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

acab-3 and astronaut-1

They're all bastards and they always have been. The day I feel compassion for "law enforcement" is the day all capitalist-serving cops are liquidated and a People's Law Enforcement is put in place.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

This does prove ACAB on a systemic level though; even the most milquetoast expression of compassion for the oppressed gets LEO sacked.

[-] Lowleekun@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Sounds rad, i hope to see the day. It is one of the things the steep decline makes me hopeful of.

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

there's a hint of it if you read about the BPP visiting china.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

john-brown

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

200 years of experience

Okay so like ~~8~~ 16 years of experience each? How is this useful for us to know unless they're capable of forming a voltron that's been investigating things since the Jackson administration?

[-] Alisu@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

200/12 = 16 years each average

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Or one ageless vampire and 11 rookies.

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 4 months ago

Whole lot of white women in that picture 🥀 Susan B. Anthony would be proud

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

oh are they purging the boyscouts and girlscouts from the bureau? the proverbially comatose clowns that are the most likely to fully and unironically believe everything positive they've been told about the america dream? incredibly funny. not so much so with the slavering beasts of Lamashtu they are going to be replaced with, but that was a question of when and not if.