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Welcome to the Mary Trump podcast. Let's dive it.

Last week, New York Times reporter Thomas Gibbons Nefted in an analysis of a photograph taken by John Locker of the Associated Press.

The photograph showed a heavily armed ice agents confronting a woman who stands in the front door of the home.

In a video analyzing the weapon with which these agents are armed,

Gibbons Neff says, quote,

I was looking at photos from federal operations in Minneapolis to serve her last week,

and this one picture stood out.

Tiana Gibson Brown is standing in the driveway, obviously in distress.

She's wearing what appears to be scrubs.

She has crox on, and she's holding her phone in her hand.

These agents are basically dressed for an imminent threat.

There were pieces of equipment on these agents' weapons that seemed more

at home on the battlefield, and here they were on the doorstep of a woman's house in Minneapolis.

I cover gun culture and policy. Before that, I was in the Marine Corps for four years and deployed

twice Afghanistan. With the last 20-25 years, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia,

technology that was used in those wars has kind of migrated into the police force. In this photo,

there are two suppressors, and the suppressor, also commonly known as a silencer. That was something

that just kind of jumped out to me. They protect your

hearing. They protect you from concussive blast coming out of your rifle. This is something that

you would want to have at the end of your rifle barrel if you were in a house shooting in close quarters.

When I was in the military, we were on the front line and we had wanted suppressors for my team,

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