Ah, the pickle defenders to the rescue again.

Posted on: February 15, 2022 at 13:59:12 CT

His question goes back to a discussion some years ago.

Someone had posted a link to a Youtube video posted by a police department. They asked for help in identifying the perpetrators who had brutally attacked a woman and a man in an alley way that had been caught on camera. The man was a DJ that night at a little bar/pub and his girlfriend stepped out into the alley to smoke a cigarette. Several men there sexually assaulted her and she went in and told her boyfriend. He came out and they started beating him. She tried to intervene and they beat her as well. It was a pretty brutal beating on a cobblestone street and in one part of the video it looked like they threw her to the ground with her head barely missing the concrete curb. Both of them went to the hospital.

Youtube took the video down and warned the police that their youtube channel would be deleted if they ever did such a thing again. pickle jumped into the fray saying "Good for them". In the ensuing discussion he and his posse were claiming that it would be wrong to put the perpetrators "in cages" aka arrest them, and that Youtube should not be helping them to apprehend them.

I think that is a very different situation than having the government advertise for disgruntled girlfriends to turn in boyfriends (or vice versa presumably) who dropped them because they may have violated some gun law at some point in time and the ATF could use that for search warrants or otherwise paying them a visit to harass them.