HeavenlyPossumI’ve seen people making the claim that local cops in Minnesota are finally “standing up” to ICE, but near as I can tell, a local police chief intervened to secure the release of a woman kidnapped by ICE because the woman’s husband was friends with the chief and told him about the kidnapping personally.
If cops care about the crimes ICE is committing, they would act against those crimes.
They do not act against those crimes.
That is, after all, ostensibly why society has cops.
“There are more ICE than local cops, so the cops are too scared to intervene against them” is a damning indictment of policing in its entirety, not an excuse. If you’re a cop and you’re worried about being arrested or shot by other cops for intervening against criminals committing crimes, then your job is (ostensibly) to get arrested or to defend yourself against those criminals.
Not “stand around or watch” or “help the criminals commit crimes.”
I’m beyond sick of the “local cops are just smol beans and ICE did them a fright but in their heart of hearts they wish they could help” nonsense. Regular people are putting their bodies on the line without armor or backup and some of them are literally dying for their neighbors. If the cops wanted to help, they would.
They don’t help because they like ICE and what ICE is doing. They are fellow cops, and cops are above us in the social hierarchy. Interfering with ICE would call that privilege into question.
fiendly@HeavenlyPossum those local cops are literally the same people who saw their co-workers murder a man in the streets in 2020 and brutalized the protesters that tried to do something about it. All ICE are cops, and vice versa.