ttoocsJan 12
Sheryl Weikal
I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.
Jan 12 at 4:34pmopenvibe
Show threadQuasitJan 12
@theleftistlawyer
In fact, the job of the police is to protect ICE from US!
Show threadDeadTOm Jan 12

@Quasit @theleftistlawyer The police at large are little more than a billy club for the wealthy. Sure, they help the rest of us out once in a while, but the wealthy will always be the priority, and we will always be seen as the enemy even when they are "helping".

I've noticed that not a single police car I've personally seen in the last decade still has "To protect and serve" displayed on the car. There is a reason for that.

Show threadMs. Que BanhJan 12

@deadtom
I got arrested in 2010 for adding - corrupt capitalist motherfuckers to 2 cop cars in Vancouver. I don't regret doing it. I paid a fine. It was worth it.

@Quasit @theleftistlawyer

Show threadQuasitJan 12

@theleftistlawyer
I don't think defunding them is enough. They need to be abolished, and individually prosecuted for their crimes. Both ICE and the police. And the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.

Not to mention their bosses and their boss's bosses. All the way up.

The institution of policing was a failure from the start. We need to come up with something different.

Show threadLevkaJan 12

@theleftistlawyer

Uvalde proved once and for all that cops are worse than useless, they're in the way. There's a name for people who rely on police to protect them. They're called "victims." Police have no obligation to protect us. The SCOTUS agrees.

See: Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005)

See also: DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 489 U.S. 189 (1989)

Show threadArtstoriesJan 12
@theleftistlawyer ICE is not there to protect people. It is not a police group. ICE exists because it is a terror group without accountability. Their function is to keep people under control, to spread fear and terror. They have the same function as the Gestapo in the 1930s.
So police will not protect you because the system is broken.
Show threadderptronJan 12
@theleftistlawyer The Police are looking at ICE with envy right now. They have been begging to be let loose like that. To not have us liberals ham stringing them.
Show threadDrTehenJan 12

@theleftistlawyer I thought the original function of a 'police force' i.e. bounty hunters was to capture runaway slaves...

Such great progress America

Show threadRobin BartonJan 12
@theleftistlawyer The police if I am correct have no authority to arrest federal officers