Federal officers fired tear gas to disperse early-morning protesters as outrage mounted in Minneapolis over the killing of a 37-year-old woman in her vehicle.
It’s time to treat ICE as the organized criminal organization that it is
Federal officers fired tear gas to disperse early-morning protesters as outrage mounted in Minneapolis over the killing of a 37-year-old woman in her vehicle.
It’s time to treat ICE as the organized criminal organization that it is
I will happily make a bet that nothing will happen to that murderer and the ICE will continue as they were.
You may be right the murderer gets off, but I disagree that ICE will continue as they were, because the response here will set an example either way to ICE.
If the murderer is convicted under state law (which I think is very possible with publicly available evidence, and there seems to be a will to prosecute from Walz and the Minneapolis mayor), individual ICE members will realize Trump and Noem can’t fully protect them no matter how hard they try to distort reality. It won’t solve it, but they will be afraid of punishment. And since their level of moral reasoning is stuck right about at a 3-year-old’s “avoid punishment” phase, we need ICE to be in a state of fear of consequences and it should have an effect.
If the murderer is not convicted (or worse, not even arrested/prosecuted), of course that’s going to grease the authoritarian slide, and we’ll see even more egregious crimes happen more quickly and with even less attention.
I really really hope you’re right and I would lose that bet. But we already know that the FBI is doing the “investigation” and they’re not sharing any evidence or information with the state police, and Trump is already sending extra agents.
If that ICE murderer gets away, which it looks like he will. That will send the opposite message to all ICE agents - they can kill white, American citizens and nothing will happen to them.
Most Americans are way too naive about what is happening and way too optimistic about things just “working out” somehow.