Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.

Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s Somali American community.

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[+] -12 points 11 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    In France if tuition is raised 2% or retirement age raised by 2 years, the entire country empties into the streets and life comes to a halt.

    Here, just bitch online until distracted by the next episode of It.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Do people lose any semblance of a safety net if they lose their job in France? No? They won't die of uncontrolled medical problems or see their child starve because they decided to stand up and make a point?

    Not exactly comparable, then, is it?

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    The strategy right now is peaceful nonviolence. It doesn’t make for exciting headlines, but it’s really the only viable strategy.

    https://youtu.be/UGGD7iScVhw

    The fascist’s next move in the playbook is to gain more power by declaring martial law. Each dead ICE agent gives them fuel to make it happen.

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