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no_hypocrisy

(54,402 posts)
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 12:17 PM 15 hrs ago

You see where this is leading.

ICE (for now) is in Minneapolis.

Local Police won’t stop you, detain you, arrest you, shoot you — because you haven’t done anything to warrant it.

But ICE will.

And the local Police can’t stop them.

Did you get that? Your local police can’t protect you from the federal government.

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mucifer

(25,551 posts)
1. Yeah, it's been that way in Chicago and all over Illinois for a while now. It's even
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 12:18 PM
15 hrs ago

worse when the state or local police help ice. It happens here.

malaise

(293,245 posts)
4. This did not age well
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 12:40 PM
15 hrs ago


Kristi Noem
@KristiNoem
If Joe Biden federalizes the National Guard, that would be a direct attack on states' rights.

Over the last several years, we've seen Democrats try to take away our Freedoms of religion, assembly, and speech. We can't let them take away our right to defend ourselves, too.

South Dakota defends the Constitution.



malaise

(293,245 posts)
9. Ayanna Presley speaks for me
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 01:15 PM
14 hrs ago

This harm is coming for everyone and we have to stop it.

A dangerous cocktail of bigotry and incompetence. Ice is a rogue violent agency.
Yes Mam!

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,478 posts)
5. "Local Police won't stop you, detain you, arrest you, shoot you -- because you haven't done anything to warrant it."
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 12:45 PM
14 hrs ago

This is...patently untrue.

Norrrm

(4,123 posts)
8. We had folks who loudly proclimed they would rise up and resist these overreaching gov't terrorists. - They forgot.
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 01:14 PM
14 hrs ago

Nixie

(17,946 posts)
11. All the news conferences have said there are 600 local police and 3,000
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 01:54 PM
13 hrs ago

ICE agents, and the police are not all on duty at the same time. So ICE can swarm at will, which is what they’ve been doing.

sop

(17,614 posts)
13. They could protect the people of Minneapolis, but they won't.
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 02:07 PM
13 hrs ago

The F.O.P. (Fraternal Order of Police) won't allow it.

surfered

(11,842 posts)
14. Targets of ICE seem to have only two options: comply and possibly be flown to a foreign prison without due process or..
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 02:12 PM
13 hrs ago

…resist and be brutalized or shot.

Cirsium

(3,426 posts)
16. They won't?
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 03:19 PM
12 hrs ago

Local Police won’t stop you, detain you, arrest you, shoot you — because you haven’t done anything to warrant it?

Yes, they will and they do.

lame54

(39,233 posts)
17. Somebody remind those cops...
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 04:26 PM
11 hrs ago

That those untrained bozos are getting paid WAY more than they are

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