And by involved, they mean to say thst preliminary reports are that a federal officer shot somebody
Star Tribune coverage — uses a URL shortener to keep lemmy from removing the gift link marker
A federal officer shot a person in the leg in Minneapolis after being allegedly attacked with a shovel during an arrest, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Videos streamed to social media from the scene show a crowd gathering. At least one ambulance was seen leaving the area. Federal agents and local police are at the scene.
Don’t believe a single fucking word of it.
“This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” Walz said. “Instead, it is a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”
And in response, as the leader of the state being brutalized, I am doing nothing and asking you to peacefully accept your abuse.
Asking people to shoot cops means that he and lot of others die.
Asking for civil resistance creates a lot of friction for ICE and slows them down.
What’s the Minnesota National Guard upto these days?
Honestly this is part of the the reason why the national guard exists. They are the states well regulated militia
Ah yes, the domestic violence excuse. He could be beating you more.
He’s the head of the state, with resources beyond just gently asking his people to turn the other cheek. He’s got the bully pulpit to call for strikes, he’s got the police to enforce plate laws and intervene when ICE breaks the law, he’s got the instruments of state to rewrite laws. All he does is chide the people.
This is “a campaign of organized brutality” and all he can think of is take your phone out and turn the other cheek. Which is conveniently a thing other people will carry the burden for and for which he has to make zero hard decisions.
The cops in Minnesota are outnumbered by ICE — if they’re not actually Nazis.
He is not ina great position here. Its going to be bottom-up, not top-down
Weird how that’s literally the only direction the people at the top ever ask for. And they, at the top, just stay there and don’t seek to help or support those bottom up tactics.
And even though there are more out Nazis than cops, even just gumming up the works by pulling over a van full of them because they’re breaking the law is actually doing something useful. Tying up Nazis on the street and in court by pretending the law still exists is more than this learned helplessness by the most powerful people on our side. They don’t even need to look for them, just post a guy outside the federal building running plates that leave. Even if they just end up ignoring the citation, the propaganda value of police telling ICE they’re not above the law would be extremely valuable. But instead they throw up their hands and try to tell the people there’s nothing they can do. Every. Single. Time.
