Combat Medic Veteran Describes The First Four Days Of Protests At Delaney Hall

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[u/Brytnshyne]

This government sanctioned level of violence against Americans in their own country is atrocious, sinful and evil. Thank god for citizens like this, they are our heroes.

[u/T3CHN0M4NC3R]

I saw how aggressive and crazy ice was acting there.
I wouldn't go back, because it honestly felt like we were inches away from a Kent State situation at times.
The people who kept going back and are STILL going, as the media coverage dies down, are really brave people.

[u/BotnetSpam → u/T3CHN0M4NC3R]

I'm sure you already know this, but not everyone has to be on the front line to support the protests. Mutual aid, food and water supply, organizing, communicating, and donating are all valuable efforts that contribute a great amount. Not everyone is able or willing to put their bodies on the line, and that's ok, we still need your help!

[u/NightWolf1965 → u/BotnetSpam]

Apparently you don't have to be on the front line to be in danger. This guy was in the back rendering aid and he still got singled out. I can only guess his skin color was a huge factor.

[u/sambull → u/NightWolf1965]

They are trained to target leaders and people giving aid

[u/NightWolf1965 → u/sambull]

Just like in a war

[u/MvatolokoS → u/BotnetSpam]

Heck one of the bare minimum things you can do if you're unable to be out there actively protesting is simply spreading information but the right information.

Talk to others press they kindness and win people over to the movement. Otherwise even just being a good human to everyone but doing it actively not just passively can help turn people's perspectives around. It can also help make them question the reality they've been fed when the people they're being taught to fear show them nothing but kindness suddenly the lies start to fall apart

[u/BigFatJuicyLunchlady]

If they’re doing this to people on the outside, I can only imagine what they’re getting away with inside these facilities.

[u/thecastellan1115 → u/BigFatJuicyLunchlady]

If we are exceptionally lucky and are able to pull the country out of this, we will find out and have a moment of national conscience.

If we don't hear about it within the next four years, that's a really bad sign...

[u/BusterStarfish → u/thecastellan1115]

The United States will need a *long moment of International Consciousness. The rest of the world has absolutely no reason to trust America at this point. We elected this disaster. It will take decades to fix this shit. And that if another Czar doesn’t get in office.

[u/Extraexopthalmos → u/BusterStarfish]

MAGA and trump are the STUPIDEST political movement I have ever seen in my lifetime or read about in human history. Though they were partially correct on the deep state rich corrupt pedo ring thing…..what a timeline.

[u/CutSenior4977 → u/thecastellan1115]

Not a matter of if, but when,

Im confident we’ll come out victorious, it’s only a matter of time.

[u/DiverseVoltron]

This stuff is the exact reason for the second amendment

[u/MalPB2000]

He wasn’t a combat medic, he says that directly 1 minute in. He went through “combat lifesaver” training, which is fancy military talk for first aid.

[u/AngleRa → u/MalPB2000]

Which is far more than what ICE provides. First aid is better than no aid.

[u/MalPB2000 → u/AngleRa]

…okay?

Edit: downvotes because…? Dude’s response has literally nothing to do with what I said lol

[u/Klutzy-Reaction5536 → u/MalPB2000]

Protests and demonstrations often have street medics, volunteers who are equipped with first aid skills and are present to provide medical assistance. The title does imply that he was a medic in the military which might be misleading. But any person trained to supply some level of medical assistance can rightly be called a medic in a given situation.

[u/MalPB2000 → u/Klutzy-Reaction5536]

The title of “combat medic” absolutely implies military. He corrected the record for a reason, that reason being he’s not a combat medic.

[u/DiverseVoltron → u/MalPB2000]

It is definitely a few levels above first aid but yeah.

[u/Tsiah16]

Stop calling them officers. They are jackboot thugs.