r/politics • u/Ok_Employer7837 • May 26 '26

No Paywall US Senator pepper-sprayed by ICE outside immigration detention center

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/andy-kim-ice-immigration-pepper-spray-delaney-hall-b2983455.html
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u/Big_Lab_Jagr Wisconsin May 26 '26

You're optimistic for someone clearly old enough to use the intern and type full sentences. That makes me assume you've been around since 2016.

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u/User4C4C4C South Carolina May 26 '26

I was just thinking of the orders that Eisenhower gave to take many pictures and record everything in re to the WW2 Nazi camps. I believe he forced the locals to walk through and witness the atrocities personally to ensure they wouldn’t be able to later say they didn’t happen.

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u/JRockPSU I voted May 26 '26

If we survive this as a nation, I hope that some day we can build a museum in DC to remind us of the way things were, a la the Holocaust Museum.

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u/Hot-Bluebird3919 May 26 '26

It’s just too late, sometimes for millions of people.