• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    There are more ICE/CBP personnel in Minneapolis than state and local law enforcement combined.

    Even if the Minnesota FOP hadn’t explicitly endorsed ICE, they still wouldn’t have the numbers to do anything about it…

    • Sarah Valentine (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      ICE didn’t teleport into the state. They’re not all standing in the same place at the same time. There are options. I mean, other than flopping on the floor and going “NOOOOO” like Stewart on Mad TV.

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        The option you are seeing is the one that the people of Minneapolis (who experienced violent unrest related to policing in their city recently) have chosen.

        The people out there protecting their neighbors in MSP are showing incredible guts, cleverness, and solidarity.

        So sure dump on the people who voted for this, dump on useless cops, but the private citizens of that area have stepped the fuck up and are putting their bodies on the line for their community.

        What the people in MSP has nothing to do with a lack of courage and if you can’t see that you need to take a nap and wipe your eyes.

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        Okay? They didn’t have to teleport into the state to have 3000 agents armed thugs in Minneapolis.

        You’ve seen the numbers they show up in, right? They basically swarm each area they visit. Even if you redirect enough local law enforcement to present a forceful deterrent, another ICE posse will just pop up somewhere else and wreak havoc.

        They have more numbers, and that’s a plain fact that you have to recognize because no amount of wishful thinking will get around it.

        If you can get a few thousand armed Minnesotans to communicate with each other, coordinate in an organized fashion, and patrol the city and outlying neighborhoods in large enough groups to present an effective deterrent, then that’s an option. But good luck making that a reality…