St. Peter

[cosmolinguist]

Nearer to "home" for me, this story from St. Peter Minnesota about local cops actually blocking the kidnapping and murder squads from kidnapping someone made me have lots of feelings. All cops are bastards because it's the job and not the individual that sucks, but it's different in small towns. "It's believed to be the first time a local police department in Minnesota intervened in a federal law enforcement action since the surge in immigration enforcement began two months ago," the article says. And it's clearly because they were trying to kidnap someone whose husband knows the police chief (though that's easier in small towns), has a lawyer, knows that ICE aren't allowed to search his wife's car without a warrant. But it seems to have made a hell of an impression on that police chief; here's hoping it's able to affect his work and his colleagues for the better as well.

V watched a video about it (they follow a few YouTube streamers, including at least one who happens to live in Minnesota, so they're getting lots of video clips of this kind of stuff) and said an ICE agent was stomping up and down the road having a tantrum because he wasn't allowed to steal somebody.

Comments

[otter]

Shit shit shit.

[silveradept]

I am glad the police chief chose to intervene. I hope he realizes the likelihood that it's happened again and again and tries to get more people out.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, that's what I'm hoping as well.