Honestly, I would fall into this trap.

The federal agent genuinely sounds like she is a person having car trouble, this trap would work on me because I guess I too am a fundamentally decent person.

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    Where the fuck is the suspicion, nevermind “reasonable suspicion” behind the use of this tactic? Is helping someone with a broken car a crime, an antifa gang symbol or something to that effect?

    There isn’t even the pretense of crime fighting in this clip, just a bait trap to kidnap normal, caring people.

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      19 hours ago

      I think their “rationale” is to snag the cartoon characters they’ve invented in their minds.

      They expect an opportunist criminal to crime them.

      This only makes sense if you believe there are literally millions of criminals in a town of 50 thousand residents.

      I expect them to shoo away helpful people indefinitely

      (Or, more likely, just arrest a random passerby and call it a success)

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      Isn’t Oklahoma passing a law that makes it illegal to help an illegal Immigrant in any way? If these laws pass, then the agent can say they were posing as an illegal immigrant, making the helper immediately guilty of a crime.