The Department of Homeland Security used its official X account to issue a blunt warning to citizens on Saturday. On paper, that’s a standard “don’t assault officers, or we’ll use law against you” message. In practice, coming from this administration, in this moment, it reads more like a political threat.
On Jan. 10, the DHS issued a reminder to citizens in the wake of Renee God’s murder. “If you lay a finger on a federal officer or agent, you will face the full extent of the law.” But the same people posting this have spent years excusing, minimizing, and ultimately pardoning violence against law enforcement. Especially when it was committed in the service of Donald Trump. Remember January 6?
