Federal officers fired tear gas to disperse early-morning protesters as outrage mounted in Minneapolis over the killing of a 37-year-old woman in her vehicle.

It’s time to treat ICE as the organized criminal organization that it is

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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      3 days ago

      You may be right the murderer gets off, but I disagree that ICE will continue as they were, because the response here will set an example either way to ICE.

      If the murderer is convicted under state law (which I think is very possible with publicly available evidence, and there seems to be a will to prosecute from Walz and the Minneapolis mayor), individual ICE members will realize Trump and Noem can’t fully protect them no matter how hard they try to distort reality. It won’t solve it, but they will be afraid of punishment. And since their level of moral reasoning is stuck right about at a 3-year-old’s “avoid punishment” phase, we need ICE to be in a state of fear of consequences and it should have an effect.

      If the murderer is not convicted (or worse, not even arrested/prosecuted), of course that’s going to grease the authoritarian slide, and we’ll see even more egregious crimes happen more quickly and with even less attention.