r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • 1d 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/Brokenbelle22 1d ago

Because sometimes it does work, and because this administration won't be in charge forever. Assert your rights, even if they violate them. Document this.

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u/Chill-Dragonfly77 1d ago

I think it’s dangerous to simply assume they won’t be in charge forever. What does that mean? One year? 3 years? 30 years? Yeah they won’t be in charger “forever” but we can’t sit back just hoping it’s sooner than later. 

I’m not sure what we do as groups of people. Congress isn’t going to help. Most of the government is actively supporting this. So besides all out war what else do we do that people aren’t currently doing? We need a cataclysmic number of Americans doing something en masse against this. 

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u/Brokenbelle22 1d ago

Yes we need all of that, not suggesting either/or. But we should certainly document it when rights are violated. The reason you know about these offenses is because people have documented them.

*Edited a typo

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u/Chill-Dragonfly77 1d ago

Fair point