Shortly after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, city leaders began looking into whether the officer had violated state criminal law.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said, “We collectively are going to do everything possible to get to the bottom of this, to get justice, and to make sure that there is an investigation that is conducted in full.” Police Chief Brian O’Hara followed up by saying that the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is “investigat[ing] whether any state laws within the state of Minnesota have been violated.”
If they conclude that state law has been violated, the question is: What next? Contrary to recent assertions from some federal officials, states can prosecute federal officers for violating state criminal laws, and there is precedent for that.
In a way, a gross overreaction by trump might wake more people up. Most here can see the boiled frog trajectory. Let others see that, while they can still help stop it. There’s a reason they do it slowly. They need to manufacture consent.
You’re talking about firefighters standing in the middle of a huge ass forest fire, still doubting there’s a fire.
There’s nothing done slowly. What Victor Orban did in 8 years turning Hungary into a dictatorship is what Trump did in the first 100 days of his second term.
If people still fail to see what’s happening, it’s Idiocracy level stupidity. If people aren’t woken up by now, they will never wake up.
Yet,.in Cambodia, a million people were genocided in the equivalent of trump’s first term. It’s all relative.
For most people, despite the political landscape, their day to day is not changing that rapidly. It’s on the same gradual downward trajectory it has been for 20 years.
Seeing heinous acts wakes them up. Things like cities being occupied. Ice murders etc. People are waking up but for those outside the affected cities they don’t feel unsafe. Yet.
Idiocratic levels of stupidity is exactly what got us here in the first place. We can thank the magnificent American voters for this.