The fact these cowards are allowed to wear masks is riot-worthy.
Imagine doing your job and you need to put on a mask specifically to hide your face—and not questioning whether you’re one of the bad guys.
The fact these cowards are allowed to wear masks is riot-worthy.
Imagine doing your job and you need to put on a mask specifically to hide your face—and not questioning whether you’re one of the bad guys.
"Mayoral candidate kidnapped by group of armed, masked individuals claiming to be immigration agents."
FTFY.
Is he a immigrant? Legal or not ICE can't arrest American citizens. Its time to fucking riot time to take the nazi scum down.
They actually can arrest anyone because they are immigration and customs enforcement. They are still law enforcement, so they can enforce any law. If you import something illegal or try to smuggle drugs into that is one agency that can investigate you. They arrest people for things like importing fake luxury items.
They still need a motherfucking warrant or probable cause!!!
What possible probable cause could they have against a political candidate who's not crossing a border? Fuck-all, that's what!
fake luxury items
holy shit i know a president who sells thousands of those
New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was detained Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as he was escorting a defendant out of immigration court, his wife said in a statement.
“While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE,” Lander’s wife, Meg Barnette, wrote on X.
I thought someone running for political office can’t be arrested or tried for a crime in case they eventually win election (at which point all possible charges are automatically dropped)?
Close. You can't be tried at the federal level. You can be tried at the state level (specifically New York) but even if you are convicted, judges will essentially commute your sentence.
There was a rally to support Lander this afternoon. Pretty good turnout for a sudden gathering on a Tuesday.
He gave a short talk after he was released.
What I’m learning is that if I want to abduct someone I just need to wear a convincing enough ICE uniform and nobody will stop me.
It's already been reported on multiple times, and that's just the ones we know about. Also, I don't think it's a "uniform" so much as just whatever tacticool mall ninja gear they decided to put on that morning.
This won't end until ICE agents start being disappeared by people dressed up as ICE agents.
How long must we keep up this charade of law and order if Trump pick and chooses which laws he will follow.
Arresting leaders because they asked to see a warrant. ICE is being used as Trump’s personal Gestapo to haunt down anyone who doesn’t fit Trump’s vision of a white ethnostate.
Idea why arrested?
escorting a defendant out of immigration court
That's all it takes now.
By their definition, defending a migrant, housing them, transporting them, waving/smiling at them, is tantamount to criminal conspiracy. Interestingly you don't see the .eat packing ceos hauled away for hiding them right up until they unionize. This is just the beginning of the violence the fed is going to impose on anyone who dares to stand up to the gestapo in any form.
For doing his job to protect people in his community. Won’t catch cuomo doing the right thing out there
Cuomo's community is the real estate developers, he will only protect them.
You absolutely would catch Cuomo doing something similar: escorting a defendant out of immigration court...
and feeding them to ICE...
"yep, this one right here boys!"
Sounds like it was because he was attempted to keep ICE from arresting an immigrant.
Sounds like it was because he was attempted to keep ICE from
arrestingkidnapping an immigrant.
Arrests come with warrants and due process
Because in New York City, a global megalopolis with one of the largest and most well-funded police departments in the country...can't be arsed to provide police protection to its highest ranking elected officials.
Imagine if the NYPD tried to arrest Trump. Do you think the Secret Service would just let that happen? Yet state and local Democratic officials aren't willing to actually use their legal power to protect themselves from unlawful arrest. These leaders should be under constant state or local police protection. But they're so addicted to normalcy that they simply cannot bring themselves to take reasonable but unusual steps like this. They just can't mentally handle it, so they let themselves go unprotected.
It should not be possible to arrest the Comptroller of the largest city in the country without first having to go through a whole bunch of local police officers.
But Democrats are cowards, so they let themselves be lead to the showers.
They wear masks because their family would be embarrassed by this Nazi shit. Fucking disgraceful cowards.
They wear masks because otherwise they would be rightfully hunted down and shot
I doubt they would be in much danger. Maybe get an angry letter or egging of their houses.
I'm trying to be optimistic
There is always hope. It’s just that there are no daily stats yet.
I’m not an expert; but after looking at political turmoil in the last few decades I tend to categorize this stage as the “march of the idealists”, lovely bunch of people who would not hurt a fly.
Not sure if when or how the less kind sort of people come in. Usually, something has to rile up those people. And it’s not done by sympathetic stories or appeals to the heart strings.
There’s propaganda - pro: works everytime, con: only in certain ways like lying to people.
And there reporting the truth about trump and fascism - pro: it’s the truth and will get things moving, con: it requires corporate media to do it, and they’re literally owned by billionaires and republiQans.
Yes; so one can view this as state propaganda ( officially done by the nation).
That is hard to work around. But it has limits and the social fabric of the country is changing: both by technology and a rebound of the internal mass migrations of the last few decades.
A lot will change
The fact that no one has yet arrested Trump shows what a farce the US legal system is – it has absolutely nothing to do with justice or fairness, but rather facilitates organized crime on a massive scale.
The fact that no one has yet arrested Trump shows what a farce the US legal system is
Relevant, from 2017. (And every word could have been written in 2025)
If there's anything I've learned over the last decade it's that the U.S. justice system is the butt of a joke. And you better believe all the criminals out there, from the petty thieves to the politicians, have taken note of that fact.
Crime will rise.
Yes, even I, as a European, have the impression that the US system has become so infiltrated by criminals that it has itself become a significant part of the problem. I mean, it couldn't be any more obvious when even a constitutional judge like Clarence Thomas no longer has to be ashamed of his open corruption – and that's been the case for decades, if we're being honest.
I would say that this corrupt system is what makes organized crime possible in the first place. This system is broken beyond repair because it not only fails to fulfill its function, but actually achieves the opposite - so imo: it cannot be repaired from within.
Specifically, with a functioning legal system, an obvious criminal like Trump would never have become president, because he would have been in prison for decades. Instead, he is now president and is exploiting the legal system for his crimes.
It's particularly sad, because countries like Brazil and South Korea both held their demagogues liable for staging their coups. Instead, we re-elect ours.
Really shows how stupid the average American is, but I don't just blame republicans. Democrats were happy to do everything they can to ensure we fight a culture war instead of a class war. Liberals banning everyone they disagree with from online discussions only served to accelerate the schism. It pushed indoctrinated people even further down their rabbit holes and created an internet that mirrors the city-rural divide.
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