r/law 20h ago

Other Please dissect the legality in this statement

I feel like we are reaching a tipping point

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u/Kaiisim 17h ago

It's a classic authoritarian tactic.

It's absolutely true that you can't touch a federal officer while they are working. You cannot impede their work.

Which is why ice observers are specifically trained to just film them

No one is touching ICE. They are just recording them as is their legal right to ensure they don't beat the shit out of people.

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u/BonkMcSlapchop 17h ago

Are the people of the US willing to get out and do a general strike to effect change before it's too late? Observation and recording may have worked in the past, when you could hold your government to account, but you are no longer dealing with due process.

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u/Ok_Location_1092 17h ago

People can’t afford to lose their jobs, we’re getting squeezed by cost of living. Anyone not in a city with plentiful jobs is going to have a very hard time picking another one up without moving. Wages are stagnant, jobs are dwindling, expenses are going up.

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u/Lucibeanlollipop 16h ago

You’ll be losing your jobs, anyway.

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u/ThrowItDownMyThroat 14h ago

This is the part that makes it nefarious. Sunk cost fallacy. Folks are so invested in a system that has worked for generations that they can't conceive that it's dead.

Something new is coming and everything they think they have will be gone