Trump's Mass Deportation Plans

[Araucaria]

Metropolitan Community Churches continuing to get involved in the resistance. I saw this in my Facebook feed.

Lillie Brock

11h ·


MCC Statement Against ICE Shooting and Detention of Rev Kenny Callaghan; Call for Solidarity
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The Council of Elders deplores the detention of Rev. Kenny Callaghan, Senior Pastor of All God's Children Metropolitan Community Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA by ICE officers whilst he was protesting lawfully, along with many others, against the activity of Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officers in the vicinity of the church. When the crowd learned that a woman had been shot and killed by an ICE officer, they started chanting “I am not afraid” and the noise of the protest intensified.
Rev. Callaghan was handcuffed and put in the back of a vehicle by a masked officer who did not have a name badge.
Rev. Kenny said:
“Three different times he came back to the car asking if I was afraid yet, to which I responded, "Hell NO!" They asked for my identification and cell phone, to which I responded, "Am I being arrested?," to which they slammed the car door. The last time they came to the car, they opened the door and asked if I was afraid yet? I said, "Absolutely NOT." Then they said it. "’Well, you're white and it wouldn't be any fun’ and told me to get out of the car."
This blatant racism, the violence of shooting a woman sitting in her own car, the detention of a clergy person who is protesting peacefully by a masked and unidentifiable officer, are all outrages against a just and caring society. As MCC, we are committed to resisting the structures that oppress people and to standing with those who suffer under the weight of oppressive systems. We call on the US Government to stop the ICE raids, which are racially motivated, terrorise communities and rip apart families. We applaud Rev. Callaghan and all those in MCC around the world who strive each day for justice.
Just as our MCC church in Minneapolis proclaims in its name, we are All God’s Children and, as such, deserving of dignity and respect…and the right to live.
In response to these egregious and unlawful acts by ICE, MCC calls upon its faith communities to join in local protests across the USA.

 

[rareboy]

From Steve Hofstetter:

"ICE releasing footage of them calling Renee Good a “fucking bitch” directly after shooting her in the face while she was trying to de-escalate doesn’t make them look like psychopathic murderers at all."

Does this look like someone threatening an ICE gestapo agent in the moment just before she was shot in the face?

 

[rareboy]

This is good.

But will they? These murders need to get into the courts, with convidctions for the killers.​

 

[KaraBulut]

Something else that made me gasp in this latest video: there are bystanders standing on the sidewalks around the vehicle who are visible in the video.

In addition to the absolutely unprofessional conduct of this goon with a gun, one of the other rules of engagement are that you never fire a weapon without clear line of sight. If the bullets wouldn't have hit the woman in question, there is always the possibility that innocent bystanders who were behind the vehicle could have been hit.

What this episode is telling us- and honestly, we already knew- is that this is a bunch of amateurs. ICE Barbie, the amateur in charge of DHS, has no business in charge of the largest non-military department of the Federal government with 240,000 employees (and growing). The guy who is running the operation, her bed-buddy Corey Lewandowski, like Noem, has no relevant experience to immigration or law enforcement.

There's a saying in Italian, "Il pesce puzza dalla testa" which means "the fish rots from the head". This whole rotten mess starts with Kristi Noem and the rot just fills the whole operation downward.

 

[rareboy]

I guess when you fire point blank into someone's face, the likelihood is that the bullet will hit its target?

That being said, the whole ICE operation is just a make-work program for Jan 6 insurrectionists and losers who have zero skills or long term job prospects.

It is Hitler's brownshirts. Mussolini's blackshirts. Proud Boys. KKK. the worst of the worst. These are not men with stable lives. They are the rabble. Formed into a private army.

 

[KaraBulut]

I guess when you fire point blank into someone's face, the likelihood is that the bullet will hit its target?

Stationary, perhaps yes. One of the reasons that most law enforcement training instructs officers to not shoot at moving vehicles is that the movement of the target leads to very unpredictable results.

That being said, the whole ICE operation is just a make-work program for Jan 6 insurrectionists and losers who have zero skills or long term job prospects.

It is Hitler's brownshirts. Mussolini's blackshirts. Proud Boys. KKK. the worst of the worst. These are not men with stable lives. They are the rabble. Formed into a private army.

And that's what my friends from eastern Europe and the middle east keep telling me. All of them have name for the "secret police" in their country. Ours is "ICE".

The latest is that the White House is hiring its own prosecutor who will report directly to the President. That's sooo Fascist 101.

 

[rareboy]

It is the leadership level of ICE that we will need to watch.

We have Bovino already cos-playing Schutzstaffel Big Balls in the field...under puppy slayer cosplayer Noem...watch to see if others emerge from shadows to take command
in targeted cities.

Bovino has already contaminated his future by being caught out lying to the courts in Chicago, but look at this guy. He is itching to give orders to shoot on sight or to have the detainees dig their own graves.
This is a disturbed individual.

 

[rareboy]

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[rareboy]

This is a man with rage issues with women. I will go out on a limb and say that 40% of ICE agents have a similar rage issue.

 

[rareboy]

Mayor Freyer nails it:

"I think the initial impetus to come to MN was to arrest & deport a bunch of Somali people. They got here & realized the Somali people that would be deported are all citizens. Then they turned their ire toward our Latino community & others. These are communities that make Mpls a better place."