This information could be presented as a bulleted list that takes <10s to read. I don't need or want a video of it.
Congratulations!
According the transcript:
"You can search you at usaspending.gov to find out more information and to see if any locally-owned businesses where you live are working with ICE."
UPDATE: I am adding other companies found through other sources -
ICE isn't police, but I guess this fits here.
What are you talking about?
Their vests say "POLICE" right on 'em.
Did you mean they're not local police, maybe?
If it looks like a pig, acts like a pig, and smells like a pig, it's probably a pig!
ICE is to police what the SS was to the Wehrmacht: sure they wear uniforms and they kill people with firearms, but they're a lawless bunch of thugs with no rules and total impunity.
ICE is Trump's paramilitary. They're not regular police. They just share many of the police's nasty traits.
Their vests say “POLICE” right on ‘em.
My cap says Redskins and I've never touched a football in my life.
"lawless bunch of thugs with no rules and total impunity" is the definition of "police".
Every point you've tried to make can be made without asking people to pretend that the "regular" police haven't committed the same atrocities time and time again.
Pretending that ICE is uniquely different from other kinds of police damages the movement for police abolition.
Every point you’ve tried to make can be made without asking people to pretend that the “regular” police haven’t committed the same atrocities time and time again.
The regular police has rules and pretends to abide by them. Agreed they don't pretend very much but they do pretend. And every once in a while, a bad cop gets convicted.
None of those things apply to ICE: they officially have zero rules, they openly practice racial profiling, they brutalize people with zero consequences (and I mean ZERO, not very low chances of consequences), they're masked like the cowards they are, and they very officially have complete impunity.
That's the difference with the police. We are still free to hate both the police and ICE intensely, but ICE is a different beast to hate.
Meh.
Distinctions without differences IMO.
They're the next evolution of police. Yes, they're worse, but it's the fruit of the same ideology taken further.
absolutely. thanks for posting :)
The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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• A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions
• Cops aren't supposed to be smart
• Killings by law enforcement in Canada
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• Know your rights: Filming the police
• Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of 'I can’t breathe' (as of 2020)
• Police aren't primarily about helping you or solving crimes.
• Police lie under oath, a lot
• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak
• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street
• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States
• When the police knock on your door
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