They went to a judge and got a warrant to investigate the scene - a public area, that’s already unusual - and the brownshirts refused.

The level of bullshit went up a lot more just then.

  • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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    Because ICE has federal authority, anything local authority does will create a conflict that ICE and Trump will use to justify martial law.

    In other words, the states shouldn’t exercise their own authority or else the feds will keep escalating the things they’re already doing? At this point I don’t see any reason to believe that Trump won’t declare martial law regardless of what Minnesota does. The question isn’t whether or not he will escalate, it’s whether or not there will be resistance.

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      Imo, the question is who fires the first shot. If it’s Minnesota PD, Trump will engineer them into the enemy and have a larger pool of people believing him.

      If it’s ICE, and continues to be ICE, they will continue to lose support, and more importantly, continue to lose in the hearts and minds of those knowing where this is going.

      As long as ICE keeps shooting first and asking quastions later, when things eventually escalate, they will meet the largest amount of resistance instead of the weakest.

      Let the antagonizers make it clear who is antagonizing, and you absolutley will have a resistance.

      At this point, I think we’re 1 more ICE shooting away from every American with a gun showing up to the Capitol to peacefully protest the same way it was done Jan 6th.