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Ice agents arrested the New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander at a federal building in Manhattan. He had spent the morning there observing immigration hearings and told an Associated Press reporter he had intended to accompany some immigrants out of the building. Footage of the arrest shows an agent telling Lander: 'You're obstructing'. Lander replies: 'You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens asking for a judicial warrant' as he was led into a lift

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago

They had no warrant and were escorted by people that had jackets on that said police. Didn't democrats just get killed by someone impersonating a cop?

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our government is arresting us citizens and I hear about it from a British news agency. This timeline is fucked up

[–] ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lander replies: 'You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens asking for a judicial warrant'

Unfortunately it seems like they do!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No, they don't. They've done it anyway.

And functionally, how is that different?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

The lawsuitilarity needs to be huge.

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

No, they have the capacity to take illegal and violent actions without consequence because the administration is ensuring the rule of the law isn't applied against their shadow agents. That's the actual reality. It's actually only a matter of time before someone rightly shoots an unmarked and undeclared ICE agent to death, which is exactly the 'escalation' the tRump admin is planning for. Not sure what the Republican heads are expecting the left-leaning voters to do once violence is openly on the table and there is no other recourse to address this massive over-reach. Good luck down there, y'all seem pretty fucked.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

Footage of the arrest shows an agent telling Lander: ‘You’re obstructing’.

The magic words they need to "justify" this...

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ