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Minneapolis teachers union chief admits elected officials in anti-ICE Signal chats, tells emotional story to Al Jazeera

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I wish Minneapolis teachers focused on educating the kids rather than politics.
Oh, I know. Don't you hate it when the public gets involved in politics. Why can't they just accept whatever the administration does.

By the way, David Dempsey who got 20 years for Jan 6? I guess we wish he focused on trucking goods around the US. Likewise Peter Francis Stager. Peter...why didn't you stick to trucking as well (he got 4 years). Likewise George Tanios who served time for getting involved in politics instead of running his sandwich shop.

If only they'd listened to you...
 
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I wish Minneapolis teachers focused on educating the kids rather than politics.

I wish federal thugs with a badge would stop terrorizing school children in Minneapolis. Children are literally hiding in their homes instead of going to school. But hey, those teachers really should focus on "educating the kids"......
 
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Don't you hate it when the public gets involved in politics
I don't! What I don't like is when the public gets involved and breaks the law. Or violate others' civil rights in the process.
By the way, David Dempsey who got 20 years for Jan 6? I guess we wish he focused on trucking goods around the US. Likewise Peter Francis Stager. Peter...why didn't you stick to trucking as well (he got 4 years). Likewise George Tanios who served time for getting involved in politics instead of running his sandwich shop.
We should also charge the insurectionist involed in these protests. Let the law prevail!
I wish federal thugs with a badge would stop terrorizing school children in Minneapolis.
This mentality is the reason I think liberals prefer lawlessness. Could you tell your buddies to quit terrorizing the children of law enforcement, or do these kids matter? These people have kids also.
 
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I object to the word "admits" in the headline. It implies that the folks resisting ICE in Minnesota are doing some secret, bad thing that they're ashamed of. To the contrary, those resisting ICE believe that ICE is engaging in inappropriate levels of violence in their city, and they're pushing back, quite openly and publicly.
 
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Likewise, I wish failed reality TV personalities and businessmen would just focus on bankrupting casinos, running fraudulent charities and committing felonies rather than politics. We'd all be better off as a country.
 
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I don't! What I don't like is when the public gets involved and breaks the law. Or violate others' civil rights in the process.
What law(s) were broken in this instant case?
We should also charge the insurectionist involed in these protests. Let the law prevail!
When did protesting become illegal?
This mentality is the reason I think liberals prefer lawlessness. Could you tell your buddies to quit terrorizing the children of law enforcement, or do these kids matter? These people have kids also.
Who has been going to schools and terrorizing children?
 
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What law(s) were broken in this instant case?

When did protesting become illegal?

Who has been going to schools and terrorizing children?
Children have been terrorized, first there was the shooting at a church in my archdiocese, then anti-Ice people stormed through every door at a Baptist church and scared the children. ICE does not enter a school building without permission unless, like the rest of law enforcement, they were chasing a criminal. Police are no longer present in Minneapolis schools, they have been replaced with unarmed security. Protesting is fine, violence is not, nor do these agitators have a right to stop cars and demand people identify themselves.
 
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“"We’re armed with whistles and our phones making sure that students are safe going to class,” she said. “And then they escalated the brutality. Every single day they taunted us. From their rental trucks, they would do things like — the agents that they brought to the Twin Cities — these hapless, untrained, overly-militarized agents, were in hotel rooms where they did not detain the workers in those hotel rooms because they wanted to be served by immigrants.”"
Now we can't have them snatching more 5 year olds can we? Moreover, well hell, someone (and yes they are usually the people they ask papers of) has to clean the room and make up the beds.
They get an exception.
 
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We should also charge the insurectionist involed in these protests. Let the law prevail!
As regards this thread, no laws were broken. Protesting is not illegal.

And as regards the law prevailing, this is a rant that Dempsey (mentioned in my post) gave just before the Jan 6 riot:

Before he assaulted officers, Dempsey stood in front of a gallows that had been set up near the Capitol, which included a sign that said, "this is art." Dempsey, known to online sleuths as #FlagGaiterCopHater because of his American flag face covering and his assaults on officers, indicated he thought the gallows should be used to hang politicians he dubbed "worthless cretins" in video cited by prosecutors.

"String all these xxx worthless bastards up from the top of those," he said in the video, pointing to the gallows, "these treelines, the rafters, the rooftops, the statues, I don’t care where they go. String ’em up and string ’em up high. And let everybody know this is what happens when you are a treasonous piece of xxx who doesn’t belong in this xxx country and has this xxx country’s worst objective at heart."

He was pardoned by Trump. So much for the law prevailing. Now I totally agree that anyone breaking the law should be charged and serve their time if found guilty. The question is, do you?
 
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Children have been terrorized...
From here: First Thing: Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention

'A 10-year-old Minnesota girl has been released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after a month in detention in Dilley, Texas, school officials said, one of hundreds of children detained at the facility.'

On Monday, Fred Biery, a federal judge in Texas Western District, issued an order blocking the removal or transfer of Elizabeth and her mother and giving the federal government five days to respond to the family’s release petition. “This didn’t have to happen. … They did everything they were supposed to do and still found themselves detained and separated,” he said.
 
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Children have been terrorized, first there was the shooting at a church in my archdiocese, then anti-Ice people stormed through every door at a Baptist church and scared the children.
I thought we were talking about “schools”?

ICE does not enter a school building without permission unless, like the rest of law enforcement, they were chasing a criminal.
What are you referring to? I didn’t see this in the OP.


Police are no longer present in Minneapolis schools, they have been replaced with unarmed security.
I’m a bit older (these daze), and when I went to school, we didn’t have Police in them either. Do you mean School Resource Officers? That’s a thing now, I’ve heard.

Protesting is fine, violence is not, nor do these agitators have a right to stop cars and demand people identify themselves.
Can ICE/CBP do random stops and ask for identities?
 
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I thought we were talking about “schools”?


What are you referring to? I didn’t see this in the OP.



I’m a bit older (these daze), and when I went to school, we didn’t have Police in them either. Do you mean School Resource Officers? That’s a thing now, I’ve heard.


Can ICE/CBP do random stops and ask for identities?
Yes, law enforcement can, under some circumstances, do that. Being a Democrat should not entitle a person to do the same.
 
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