Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles to Grab Protesters in Portland

And because they're law enforcement, they'll respond with 10 times the firepower, killing the armed/confused civilian(s) instantly and effortlessly. They'll get away with it too, because, again... they're law enforcement, and prosecutors are too scared to touch them.

Another risk is crazed right-wing vigilantes deciding to drive around in similar vans+camo+guns to kidnap people for real. Law enforcement knows that people are worried about this, and are using this tactic deliberately in order to instill fear. "Do I fight back, because these are racist gun-nuts who are going to lynch me, or do I comply because they're police, and they'll just let me go after they're done unconstitutionally hassling me?" Guess wrong and you die.

This is terrorism.

When you see [flagged] on a story it means users flagged it, so that part is no mystery.

Sometimes it's a mystery why they flagged it, but I'm not sure it's hard to understand in this case. The topic is inflammatory, the comments are poor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23867523), and there's not much information to discuss.

Maybe. They have much better PR. Since the concentration camps thing has already been done, instead there is that prison-industrial complex, which sounds a lot more palatable because gang violence and the war on drugs. It’s as if we’re being held hostage in the sense that if we want law enforcement accountability, then they’ll pull back the stops on the gangs — which, arguably, is a problem perpetuated by the system, rather than being fixed by it. And then on the other side of things you have boogaloo. I’d argue our situation is at least as bad as the Gestapo because there’s all these strands you have to pull apart.

Maybe the police union is responsible.