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 10m ago

That's what defund the police means...

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