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Minneapolis mayor tells ICE to “get the f— out of’ city (thehill.com)

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 152 points 4 days ago (5 children)

They need to start deploying resources to protect their citizens from ICE invasion.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

That would be police and as they say ACAB because those guys are probably high fiving each other whenever ICE ices someone.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 56 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, but giving them a direct order and having them defy it would be an illuminating moment for the general public to witness

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean that's happened a lot now, there's been many instances of mayors and city councils at odds with their police forces and well... The police have the guns so it usually goes nowhere.

In the city I grew up in the police union ran the police chief out of town after two cops were caught doing drugs on duty in their cruzers. Police chief wanted to regularly drug test his police force saying "if we enforce these laws we better follow these laws." Union took him to court said it violated their rights. He was stalked and harassed by his own police force. The police union won in court. I'd call that defying a direct order and the city yawned and moved on way back in 2007 when it happened.

Source: worked in local news and we ran multiple stories on this over the course of several months. The public was absolutely informed about it.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And then fire them if they refuse to obey orders. Police are not all powerful.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm going to quote something I wrote in June of 2020 regarding the idea of police abolition or replacing current police with new officers while also changing the way policing works entirely:

How often do you think that is likely to be?

So currently there is this huge unaccountable group known as cops, who are effectively above the law and are white supremacists.

When they are out of jobs, they are going to be angry. There is not going to be a force to "police" them and they are used to being able to violently put people down.

Worse, most of them own personal weapons. I mean, they're white supremacists and right wing nutjobs and all.

Meaning it could happen a great deal initially, and would be the very same people currently causing the current riot: cops.

When they lose their jobs, mark my words, this isn't over, and them and the people who support them are heavily armed and regular citizens and the new citizen policing organizations will potentially not be well armed enough to deal with them.

Unless the new President is willing to label them terrorists and enemies of the state and mobilize the military against them... well, I mean, I just don't know how long the violence will last but it will be a long time.

This isn't over by a long shot, these people will not go silent into that good night. Which is fucking horrifying. All I want is for them to go silently into that good night. They will not relinquish their power without a long, bloody fight.

I mean, this article is all about how lawless they are. You don't think they're going to just steal all the weapons and body armor and ammo from each precinct and take them home and act like they have no idea what happened to them all? Who is going to march in and arrest them and enforce it?

I mean, there's actually a whole shitload of these dudes, even though there's more of us. We were already having regular incidents of white supremacist terrorism long before any of this.

Does anyone think that is going to stop because we disbanded the police? If anything, they'll use it as opportunity.

I say this as someone who is 100% on the side of police abolition. But yeah, I think this guy is right that a specialized force of some kind might still be necessary to contain psychotic assholes with high powered weaponry and a history of being lawless pricks.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are almost 4x as many ICE agents in Minneapolis as there are police officers.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago

If the job of protecting their communities is too tough for them they can quit, but if they like the badge and the pension and all the preferential treatment they get from people nows the time to earn it

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

The mayor needs to be ordering the local police to conduct a manhunt for the murderer, raiding and arresting any ICE who try to harbor him.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago

Arm the population

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Please the cops will help ICE unfortunately.