[a character looks sad in front of a sad city, under the sunset]
Things aren’t looking great…
It sucks when the state kills people
Wish we could do something about it
[the character is now in front of their TV, showing ICE agents surrounding a bleeding corpse on the floor]
Wait… this time they killed WHITE people
This means it could happen to me too?!
[an angry crowd is demonstrating, holding various signs such as…]
THIS TIME YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR
I DRAW THE LINE HERE
TOLERATE NO MORE
2025-31-12, Keith Porter, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-09-12, Silverio Villegas González, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-07-28, Jaime Alanis Garcia, shot and killed by ICE agents
27 shootings by ICE in 2025,
8 of which were lethal
31 deaths in ICE custody in 2025
11 deaths in ICE custody in 2024
7 deaths in ICE custody in 2023
3 deaths in ICE custody in 2022
5 deaths in ICE custody in 2021
18 deaths in ICE custody in 2020
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2019
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2028
History time.
After the Kent State shootings, a lot of people stepped away from activism because they realized that marching could get them killed.
I’d say the difference right now is that Kent state came out of nowhere; there’d been plenty of marches before with no problem. Trump has been tearing down the rule of law for a decade now.
Trump did the Kent state massacre?
Ahhhhh, the classic “I’m a fucking moron” argument
In a post highlighting how this isn’t some recent Trump phenomena and there’s been problems this whole time, I see no reason to bring up Kent State and compare it to Trump now unless you think Trump also did Kent State. That’s another example against this being a Trump only issue and not something that’s a long part of US history.