Disclaimer: I know the picture is horrible, but it’s the only one I could find showing the smoke. There is no sorrow for this man, none, because if you think ICE is d*cks, this guy is ICE on steroids. He thinks his position makes him above the law, so he can do whatever he wants to anyone, and we can be sure it’s gotten worse after that new ICE memo that was leaked. He had to answer to a judge on *multiple* days, and apparently it hasn’t chilled him out one small bit. Thank you, Raw Story:
Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino faced literal and figurative blowback after lobbing a smoke bomb toward protesters. The 55-year-old crackdown commander was shown on video struggling to deploy the smoke canister on Wednesday afternoon as protesters gathered as federal officers had boxed in a vehicle and pulled out a teenage boy and a girl near Mueller Park, witnesses told the Minnesota Star Tribune.
“I’m gonna gas, get back, gas is coming,” Bovino can be heard saying on the video. “Gas is coming, second warning – second warning.” “Gas on film, gas on film!” says the person recording the video, who was identified by the newspaper as Ben Luhmann. “Third warning – gas, gas, gas,” Bovino says, and then tosses the canister and pushes bystanders away from the street. However, Bovino failed to account for the wind and is shown on the video enveloped in plumes of green and gray smoke.
Couldn’t have happened to a nastier guy, because he’s certainly not nice. He deserved it. The smoke blowback was the bonus. There is literally nothing likable about this guy that I have been able to find thus far. Intentional brutality is his M.O. Since it’s late in the day, let’s move along so I don’t rant.
That incident came a short time after agents were photographed holding a person on the ground as one sprays bright orange chemical irritant directly into their face, and both encounters occurred soon after the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stayed a lower court order that had forbidden immigration agents from detaining and pepper-spraying protesters and observers. “How it started: 8th circuit removed restrictions on ICE using pepper spray etc. against peaceful protestors,” posted The Tennessee Holler account. “How it’s going: 3 goons hold a man down, another pepper-sprays him in the face — as Bovino uses green chemical gas for no reason with kids around.”
“Hahahaha, Bovino decided to look tough by throwing a gas canister at legal protestors,” jeered X user Turnbull. “It takes him a few minutes to figure out the pin and then, like a total nimrod, he throws it into the wind and the gas blows back on him and his men.” //// “Look what they’re doing to my beautiful city,” lamented activist Will Stancil. “This is Bovino’s massive armed convoy, rolling through the Wedge, one of the nicest, friendliest residential areas in Minneapolis, doing nothing but posturing, starting fights, and then deploying chemical weapons at a park many children play in.”
See what I mean? Couldn’t have happened to a nastier guy. He’s far too into the machismo or macho man or Petey Boy Hegseth masculinity ideal. Kinda surprised he can get dressed on his own. And he’s not just CBP or ICE. He’s the damn *commander*. Great example there, Bovy. Sure, it does not make us want to sign up. Well, we wouldn’t anyhow, but you get the idea. On the other hand, maybe he is the ideal for these new guys coming in. And we’ll skip merrily past *that*, too.
“Bovino is a Nazi wannabe,” replied Bluesky user Heidi. “He even has the Nazi haircut. Why can’t people see that?” [Disclaimer: his haircut is also known in the armed services as a ‘high and tight’.] //// “It’s incredible how casually CBP and Bovino himself especially use chemicals,” noted journalist Garrett Graff. “They’re usually the only violence at the scene.” //// “This video of PeeWee Bovino committing a crime will be good evidence for the Minneapolis Trials,” noted popular Bluesky user Kim Wexler’s Ponytail. //// “Bovino committing crimes!” agreed Bluesky user Miriam Likes Pie.
I checked and couldn’t find anything about the ‘Minneapolis Trials’. Bovino is a nasty piece of work when he’s not embarrassing himself. Why yes, I am prejudiced against him – why do you ask? Also, the bit about appearing before a judge is here. It was in Chicago, but nevertheless, his reputation precedes him. (Thank you for your patience with all the quotes. And hope I kept my tenses straight. Ha.) And now that it’s oh dark hundred, time to post this and go to sleep so I can do it again tomorrow. See you then!
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I like the idea of folks bringing their leaf blowers and blowing it all back on ICE.
Oooo I hadn’t heard about that one! I *love* it with verve and enthusiasm!
“I checked and couldn’t find anything about the ‘Minneapolis Trials’.”
That’s because they haven’t happened yet.
But.
They will.
Oh. *facepalm* I was being far too literal.