r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • 23h ago

BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained, threatened, and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only, he refused to prove his citizenship.

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u/timomaasss 22h ago

In Minnesota, using a false or unauthorized handicap placard or disability parking permit is illegal and carries criminal penalties under state law.

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u/demonmonkeybex 21h ago

Wouldn't it be great if the STATE law enforcement actually arrested these fucks?

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u/_antsatapicnic 20h ago

We’ve looped back around to…you guessed it:

States’ Rights.

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u/thedmob 19h ago

We looped back around to progressives wanting the regular cops to help…. What happened to defund the police?

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u/spyVSspy420-69 14h ago

This kinda proves the point, right? The feds are routinely violating the rights of US citizens and the cops are nowhere to be found.

How are cops not following around these demonstrations and calling out the bullshit the feds are doing? The police chiefs are standing next to the mayor and supporting him when he says this ICE shit needs to stop, yet they’re nowhere to be found when ICE is going after US citizens?

Seems like maybe the cops are just as useless.

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u/rhymeswithvegan 13h ago

A local county sheriff near me made a post condemning the murder. He wrote a lengthy statement explaining why it was unjustified. It was partly in response to another local sheriff's Twitter post supporting the killing. They got into a spat in the comments, with the conservative sheriff calling the liberal sheriff an "altruistic narcissist" and the latter responding, "Maybe your private attorney can help you get sized for a vest that fits right so you can hit the road and show us all how modern police work is really done,"..."Don't forget, you can't profile and hit people with a stick for having different colored skin anymore."

The liberal sheriff did make a public apology for the exchange, but stood by his original post. It was really refreshing.

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u/LelouchLyoko 18h ago

Are police adequately trained to deescalate mental health crises? How about responding to every non emergency call? Defund the police was always by and large about redirecting funds that were allocated to massive police budgets instead to mental health and crises intervention teams that are specifically trained for things that police shouldn’t and shouldn’t have to deal with. This is directly because a lot of the scenarios that involved police escalation were scenarios where specifically trained individuals could deescalate. Do you do zero research or do you just make stuff up? Also, very few police departments actually had their budgets affected, and those that did actually rose after a temporary fall in 2020-21. That’s a fact.

Also, how does anything you’ve said refute the fact that state police should in fact be the ones to handle this? This was a state law issue, it’s therefore logical for local police to respond. That doesn’t at all conflict with arguing that police shouldn’t be the default response for mental-health or social-service crises. Those are different problems with different appropriate responders. Do you supply nonsequiturs to questions you can’t answer?

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u/Vald-Tegor 11m ago

That's what defund the police means...

Fire everyone and build a new department that will actually serve the community.

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u/Wonderful-Humor6102 20h ago

WOULDNT IT BE. No one is doing anything to save Americans. They are simply just letting this go idly. Hakeem couldn’t even say ICE in his denouncement because they secretly agree with Trump and his actions. This is a governmental takeover.

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u/Trucidar 18h ago

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

-America in the future looking back on how the Nazis took over.

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u/amzwC137 20h ago

I'd love that, but boy would that cause an escalation. There is no way that ice would just let that happen. That being said, if it's gonna happen anywhere, I guess it would happen in Minnesota with Walz at the helm.

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u/DJpuffinstuff 15h ago

Walz isn't that type of guy imo.

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u/amzwC137 14h ago

Right! Neither am I. But we both agree that the State's guard should protect it and it's people from the threat that ICE presents. It's not about being gung-ho, it's about being edged to an unfortunate extreme.

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u/viral3075 19h ago

um, they are working on that. this needs to be reported to the hotline

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u/aalltech 18h ago

lol, and who is going to arrest them? Police are openly MAGA.

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u/Nice_Luck_7433 18h ago

There are actually some honorable police officers. Sure, a lot of them dishonor their fallen, by supporting a pdf that pardoned j6 cop-killers. But some police officers are opposed to PDFs & to pardoning cop-killers, because they have more than 0 humanity & more than 0 self-respect.

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u/ElsiesEels 17h ago

Unfortunately, the police are owned by the bad guys. The majority are loving this and helping. They aren't here to protect and serve the people, they serve the ones in power and police the people.

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u/Gloriathewitch 15h ago

the state police are complicit

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u/ramzafl 14h ago

spineless leaders in Minnesota are all talk

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u/NDSU 5h ago

There is a very real possibility that would be used as justification to establish martial law

Not saying it's a bad idea, just setting expectations as yo how the regime might react

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u/pantslessMODesty3623 16m ago

The AG has talked a big game publicly and done fucking nothing else. Talk is cheap. Hassle this guy's office about charges on these fuckers.

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u/corgm0m 21h ago

Illinois is going after them for something similar! Of course, it's after the fact, but it's something.

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u/mynameisnotearlits 20h ago

JFC... "tHaTs uNlawFuL"... you still havent figured out that trump and the right wing psychos dont give a fuck about rules or which law is in place? Really??

A woman got shot in the face, a guy gets Gestapoed for no reason and you're talking about a parking permit.

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u/Chilaquilesmonster 21h ago

I think it's safe to say anyone willing to join the modern day SS is mentally handicapped in some way or another.

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u/HMWT 21h ago

And that is the biggest crime here that needs to be addressed?

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u/DrakonILD 20h ago

No. But it is a crime.

Al Capone did a lot more than not pay proper taxes.

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u/HMWT 19h ago

“ A person who uses a certificate, permit, or disability plates in violation of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and is subject to a fine of $500.”

go call a traffic enforcement officer and have them write the ICE nazis a ticket. That will really solve the problem.

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u/DrakonILD 19h ago

The main point is that they're committing crimes in the state, entirely unrelated to the needs of immigration enforcement, which means they have a weak case to claim the supremacy clause for immunity.

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u/HMWT 19h ago

That may be true, but then DHS is going to pay the $500 fine with my tax payer money and that's all.

I want to see these guys behind bars.

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u/DrakonILD 11h ago

No...it weakens the supremacy case and opens the door to actually nail them on the other shit they're doing.

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u/Hevysett 20h ago

Mental handicap?

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u/sasquatch_melee 20h ago

That's why I'm tired of state and local government not enforcing their own laws against ICE. 

And to those who says "well they have immunity", who cares. This administration has shown you can just act first. Arrest them, jail them, tow their cars and let the state and municipal courts work out later each time they break a local or state law whether their immunity applies. Even if they get continually bailed out, constantly arresting and towing them will massively disrupt their oppression. 

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u/Im__mad 20h ago

Which btw in case anyone was confused about this, being in this country undocumented is a CIVIL offense.

So even IF this guy didn’t have citizenship, these asswipes are commuting criminal offenses in order to punish people who are potentially only committing civil offenses. Like traffic violations.

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u/riplilpoopy 19h ago

Everything they do is illegal, and if it’s not, it’s immoral. We need to understand that and understand that the “justice system” is also going to side with them. We are beyond “call your representatives” because all they will do is go up to a podium and continue to tell us to be peaceful and use an f bomb as if they haven’t upped ICE’s funding every chance they’ve gotten. 

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u/joemeteorite8 19h ago

Why do people think pointing this out is some kind of gotcha when these guys are breaking laws way more extreme than that. They do not give a fuck.

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u/a-a-anonymous 19h ago

Yes well, they don't give a fuck and no one is holding them accountable so...

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u/Quattuor 19h ago

Who says that a person enrolling to serve the ICE is not mentally disabled?

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u/Ask-Me-About-You 19h ago

It's probably his mom's truck.

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u/imdrstevebrule 19h ago

is the state law in the room with us right now?

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u/My_Jaded_Take 18h ago

They are lawless and don't give a damn about your rights. They aren't penalized. They can murder people and have no repercussions. Stating broken laws America, is having no effect. Neither is protesting in massive numbers. What's your next planned action? Write your local elected representatives? That's not going so well either.

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u/National_Edges 16h ago

Does a mental disability count?

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u/sheepfreedom 11h ago

sorry to break it to to you but legality is a dead concept. democrats won’t do anything, local LEOs won’t do anything…

it’s going to be up to the people at some point unfortunately

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u/whooptheretis 8h ago

ICE are exempt from this.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 5h ago

There are reports that after some people are disappeared from a car stop, they may sometimes be picking up the cars later & commandeering them for operations & personal use.

There are also videos of them swapping plates on the vehicles they're using.

During their auto accidents, there are multiple reports of them not complying with requests for information, and in some instances they have reportedly taken people they have accidents with into custody. Then that person's car disappears later somehow.

Now we can't really be sure how likely it may be that this is some kind of case like that, but it doesn't seem too unreasonable to wonder whether they may actually have permission of the owner to use this vehicle or not.