@nullagent @GhostOnTheHalfShell
It’s been really, •really• interesting watching the behavior of the Mpls Police Dept during the occupation. On the one hand, many of them are obviously on ICE’s side, chumming it up with them etc. On the other hand, the city has a pretty strict separation ordinance (they’re not allowed to help ICE), and beyond that they’re desperate to regain community support after the GF uprising — so they have conspicuously •not• been instigating nearly the same degree of violence we’d expect from them. The handful of times they have backed up ICE directly in a confrontation with neighbors, there was major blowback and the dept backed off hard.
There’s some invisible that they’re toeing but not crossing. Only they know what the line is, and it’s in flux. But it’s there. They know they’re on thin ice with the population (pun intended).
Not so with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, i.e. county police, who’ve been just wretched, flagrantly helping ICE and going off the rails with protestors. HCSO is due for a major reckoning if we still have a democracy when this all ends.