So you're definition of peaceful protests includes protesters attempting to run over agents, physically block them from doing their job, etc...?
The reason they go out into public to do those "assaults" you claim? Did you even bother to stop and think for the half second to realize it may be due to local law enforcement NOT enforcing the laws to keep the protests peaceful?
As far as the use of CS and the courts, I'm not going to comment about that because the appeals process is still ongoing.
Even though they're primarily suposoed to enforce immigration law, they're still federal law enforcement agents with the power to arrest and detain anyone for violating federal laws.
The explosive entry SWAT raids? Yeah, they have probably have absolutely nothing to do with the subject of the raid, their criminal history, or their history of weapon possession because you're "110% certain" every other cop in the world disagrees with them and agrees with you simply because you said so.
Maybe it’s not Local’s job to disperse crowds of peaceful protestors. Pesky 1st Amendment!
That explosive raid? It was literally performed as a **PR stunt* because Kristi Noem wants a spectacle and that home was chosen ****precisely**** because it was low-risk. And let’s not even crack the opening of the door that is their Chicago apartment raid (where American citizens were hauled out of their homes and detained for hours while being “screened”), or the multiple episodes where ICE agents have assaulted motorists, protesters, etc (to include at least one lethal-force incident in Chicago, where somehow, a woman was sooo dangerous that she needed to be shot five times, but wasn’t dangerous enough to arrest at the hospital???
Point being, a lot of us here are very conservative and will enthusiastically try and find a way to support ICE and DHS and the current administration’s policies because a lot of us really don’t like the undocumented/illegal/Hispanic populations in our communities and we’re frustrated by anecdotal but consistent abuses of public services, public welfare and emergency services by those communities without real or perceived accountability or support from those communities. I get it. We’ve all run that frequent flyer with better stuff and more money than we have in Little Guatemala that calls at 3am for their blood pressure meds and we’ve all seen those arrogant young men smiling at their DUI stop next to a massive wreck because we know there will be no real consequences and they’ll simply disappear without accountability. I get it. Seeing ICE deport those people is gratifying. I ain’t even
opposed to the deportations, economic consequences included. Freeze ‘em all. Except
that’s not what is happening. ICE has a tough, necessary mission. They’re just carrying it out abusively.
What I am opposed to is the conduct of the people doing it, and how they are making a mockery of the Constitution and the law, and how they are damaging both the institutions of law enforcement and even their mission of deportation. Because it’s
performative terrorism at this point. If ICE was serious about deporting “the worst of the worst”, they’d start with known criminals, working with the Hispanic communities across our nation, and they’d have a concurrent and mutually-respectful process to turn a blind eye towards the non-problematic populations while an adult political solution is reached…but instead, we’ve got Meal Team Six Cold Squad picking people out of
immigration courthouses and ripping moms out of the drop-off line at elementary schools because their goal is to undermine trust in the justice system and government.
Read that again. Their goal is not domestic security or law enforcement. It is politically-targeted policing aiming at suppressing the vote in Democrat-aligned communities and its being done in such a way as to open the door for a “lawful” use of force against non-Administration political parties and voters to dissuade their participation in the midterms and beyond.
That’s bold, and horrific, but I genuinely think it’s the truth. I don’t think it’ll ultimately be successful, and I do think it’ll result in catastrophe for America in general and many people in particular, and I think it will severely damage both the professions of law enforcement and public safety in general in that those of us who choose to participate in ICE support and shenanigans will be ostracized by society.
We are all going to be culturally associated with the modern reincarnation of antebellum slave catchers, and that ain’t great for us as EMS professionals.
And those slave catchers? Remember that they were lawful agents, ones who the Fugitive Slave Act
required local authorities support, and who were granted Federal protections and immunities from local ordinances while they
kidnapped people back into slavery.
That is not a good place for us to be.
