Pokémon lawyers won’t sue DHS for that video, former legal head predicts

We did not mock up these images; they’re portion of the DHS video. | Images: DHS / Pokemon

Yesterday afternoon, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a portion of disgusting propaganda that glorifies the conception of a militarized constabulary authorities forcefully entering people’s homes and businesses and starring them distant successful handcuffs and zip ties — each acceptable to the classical Pokémon theme opus and utilizing galore pieces of evidently copyrighted imagery from the ‘90s TV show.

There’s nary accidental The Pokémon Company, notorious for protecting their family-friendly estimation and profits with ineligible action, would fto that fly, right?

Don’t clasp your breath: The Pokémon Company’s erstwhile main ineligible serviceman Don McGowan (who spent astir 12 years there, arsenic good arsenic multi-year stints astatine Bungie and Microsoft) thinks there’s nary way that his erstwhile institution would sue.

“Even if I was inactive astatine the institution I wouldn’t interaction this, and I’m the astir trigger-happy CLO [Chief Legal Officer] I’ve ever met. This volition stroke implicit successful a mates of days and they’ll beryllium blessed to fto it,” he told IGN.

Why? One crushed is that similar some different executives Trump has antecedently and corruptly leveraged, immoderate of The Pokémon Company’s leaders personally beryllium connected the US’s bully graces: “Many of their execs successful the USA are connected greenish cards,” helium said. Another reason, helium says, is that The Pokémon Company doesn’t privation the press.

More at IGN, and you tin work a erstwhile interrogation with McGowan at Aftermath.

As Kotaku points out, the DHS video whitethorn beryllium showing disconnected raids against important criminals, but ICE is presently nether occurrence for snatching up US citizens. The Supreme Court besides precocious cleared the way for ICE to halt radical based connected the colour of their skin, the jobs they perform, and the connection they speak.