Trump's promised ICE raids have begun

stanfr said:
Having worked alongside some corrupt police departments in the past (as a public defender) I'm kind of surprised they didn't purposely give Ross a shot to the ribs with a baton before a quick ER visit, just so they could take some convincing bruise pics that would help clear him.
But I guess with the full force of the Executive Branch and most of the other branches of govt, they probably felt just saying he was injured would be good enough to satisfy the masses.
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And their judiciary
 
White nationalist thinks he had an opportunity.
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Bob Baker (@eyeofra_art) on Threads

Nazi propagandist Jake Lang tried to hold a hate rally at the Minnesota Capitol. It did not go well for him as THOUSANDS showed up for blocks on end to oppose Jake and his four followers. It ended with Jake boxed in at the Capitol windows, covered in literal eggs and soaking from water guns...
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Nazi propagandist Jake Lang tried to hold a hate rally at the Minnesota Capitol. It did not go well for him as THOUSANDS showed up for blocks on end to oppose Jake and his four followers. It ended with Jake boxed in at the Capitol windows, covered in literal eggs and soaking from water guns, eventually sulking and collapsing into the crowd. Clipped for @mercadomedia1
 
sackett said:
For many years, I went to the polling station and gave the ladies
at the table my voter registration certificate. They checked it against
the registration rolls, handed it back, and gave me a chit to sign avowing
that I was voting. Then I got my ballot, voted in the little privacy
shelter, fed my ballot into the counting machine, and went home.

Nowadays, I get my ballot in the mail, mark it, and mail it back. No
doubt somebody in Lansing finds me on a voter roll and certifies
on pain of perjury that, yes, I am a born human voter in michigan.

Since you can't register to vote without proof of Michigan residence,
state law is satisfied, and so is federal law. So WTAF more is voter ID
supposed to accomplish?
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Totalitarian control (read oppression) of the population, think North Korea for instance.
The current ICE conduct is demonstrating exactly how the current administration wishes to abuse citizen ID cards.
sackett said:
Flash! This just in: Krusty Gnome sez people better get ready to show proof of citizenship!
Wooo, now I'm scared!
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You should be.
 
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Tero said:
White nationalist thinks he had an opportunity.
www.threads.com

Bob Baker (@eyeofra_art) on Threads

Nazi propagandist Jake Lang tried to hold a hate rally at the Minnesota Capitol. It did not go well for him as THOUSANDS showed up for blocks on end to oppose Jake and his four followers. It ended with Jake boxed in at the Capitol windows, covered in literal eggs and soaking from water guns...
www.threads.com www.threads.com
Nazi propagandist Jake Lang tried to hold a hate rally at the Minnesota Capitol. It did not go well for him as THOUSANDS showed up for blocks on end to oppose Jake and his four followers. It ended with Jake boxed in at the Capitol windows, covered in literal eggs and soaking from water guns, eventually sulking and collapsing into the crowd. Clipped for @mercadomedia1
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He was claiming one of the radical left wing thugs stabbed him in the chest but his body armour blocked it
 
Shorty Bovino* is really flaunting some damn thing.
Where does he expect to be in five years? Three? This time
next month?

* Does that really just mean bovine? Nothing more? It seems inappropriate
for such a cur dog.
 
sackett said:
For many years, I went to the polling station and gave the ladies
at the table my voter registration certificate. They checked it against
the registration rolls, handed it back, and gave me a chit to sign avowing
that I was voting. Then I got my ballot, voted in the little privacy
shelter, fed my ballot into the counting machine, and went home.

Nowadays, I get my ballot in the mail, mark it, and mail it back. No
doubt somebody in Lansing finds me on a voter roll and certifies
on pain of perjury that, yes, I am a born human voter in michigan.

Since you can't register to vote without proof of Michigan residence,
state law is satisfied, and so is federal law. So WTAF more is voter ID
supposed to accomplish?

Flash! This just in: Krusty Gnome sez people better get ready to show proof of citizenship!
Wooo, now I'm scared!
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It's accomplishing just what it's supposed to: inconvenience, obstruction, distrust and paranoid hostility. It is, in that sense, almost perfect, its only failing so far being that it can't yet be overtly racist.
 
sackett said:
Shorty Bovino* is really flaunting some damn thing.
Where does he expect to be in five years? Three? This time
next month?

* Does that really just mean bovine? Nothing more? It seems inappropriate
for such a cur dog.
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He is very much full of bull, of course. Has a real beef with th US Constitution. Trying to horn in on everyone's rights, but we refuse to be cowed.
Ok, I'll stop milking this joke now.
 
Lerxst said:
Ruling of US District Judge in Minnesota: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758.85.0_1.pdf

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Definitely worth a read. I found it not surprising at all that DHS did not even enter into evidence any statements or testimony from any agents that were even present. Gee, I wonder why? They so authoritatively state they are being attacked by violent protesters but yet can't show the receipts in court. Where have we seen this tactic before?
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Thank you. The circumstances leading to Tincher v Noem et al. were reported in mid-December. One of the five individuals named as defendants (in addition to DHS and other "Unidentified Federal Agencies") was David Easterwood, Acting Field Office Director, ERO, ICE Saint Paul Field Office. Easterwood is named throughout the document because he took the lead in defending ICE against the plaintiffs' allegations. The court's ruling ran to 83 pages; I will now attempt to summarize the court's view of the evidence.

The court gave "substantial weight" to the plaintiffs' declarations, because those declarations were sworn under penalty of perjury, "based largely on their personal experience and knowledge", and often backed up by sworn statements from other eyewitnesses or video evidence. (See page 38 and following.)

"By contrast, Defendants did not provide sworn declarations from immigration officers (or others) who witnessed or were themselves directly involved in the conduct challenged by Plaintiffs. Rather, in opposing Plaintiffs’ evidentiary showing, Defendants elected to rely primarily on the declaration of Defendant David Easterwood." Easterwood was not present and did not witness any of the relevant ICE activities. Easterwood's testimony was based entirely upon secondhand hearsay accounts provided by other federal agents. It seems none of those accounts were made under penalty of perjury, and the agents providing those accounts were apparently not even identified.

The court concluded that Easterwood's opposing statements concerning "the events leading up to the arrests of Tincher and Noor" and the incident in which plaintiff Crenshaw was sprayed were at least partially "counter-factual", leading the court to conclude "that Easterwood’s accounts of what occurred with respect to Plaintiffs Tincher, Noor, and Crenshaw are entitled to considerably less weight than Plaintiffs’ declarations." Similarly for other incidents.

I should emphasize that the court is not suggesting Easterwood lied to the court. The court does, however, appear to be suggesting some of Easterwood's statements may have been based in part upon lies told to Easterwood by some of the federal agents he supervises.

On page 56 and following,
  • "...the Court finds Ms. Tincher has a likelihood of success on showing causation on her First Amendment retaliation claim."
  • "The Court finds that Mr. Noor is likely to succeed on the merits of his claim that he was arrested in retaliation for engaging in protected First Amendment activity."
  • "Taken together, the evidence sufficiently supports that Mr. Crenshaw has a fair chance of prevailing on his First Amendment retaliation claim."
On page 64: "Having found a likelihood of success on the First Amendment claims of Plaintiffs Tincher, Noor, and Crenshaw, the Court focuses on whether Plaintiffs have a fair chance of showing that Plaintiffs Biestman, Lee, and Webb were subjected to unreasonable seizures in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Court finds that they do."

For each of those conclusions, the court explains why it found the defendants' (primarily Easterwood's) contrary statements and arguments to be unpersuasive.
 
Resume said:
They're not even trying to hide it anymore.

But don't, whatever you do, call them Nazis.
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It's like they've decided that Policeman, Construction Worker, Cop and Indian are out of date. "We'll go Cowgirl, SS Officer, Nosferatu and what ever that weird eyeliner couch ◊◊◊◊◊◊ thing JD has going. YMCA baby!"
 
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