Bloomberg News doing it’s best Fox News imitation, calling the PPA office a “police building.” It’s not. It’s a private leased office space.
I’m sure we can expect a lot more pigstys burnt down as long as city governments aren’t willing to control their officers.
Must suck to be a cop. Good thing they can choose to stop being one if they don’t like it.
It was hardly “burnt down,” it looked more like “shine a red light in the room and take some video,” but according to the logic of Serious Journalism it’s all the same thing
Cops assault local superhero in front of the Justice Center, mildly annoying him
Seriously. Either that dude is very tough, or the popo accidently grabbed their batons out of the Nerf box…
Trump is going for the full Dictator. Sending Federal troops for local matters without even being asked. Then having them kidnap people with no charges. Why does this sound so familiar?
Portland protestor who farking CLANGS when he walks.
He said he had taken the bus downtown to attend the protest and wanted to ask federal officers a specific question. “I stood in the street in front of them and I started asking them if it was okay to violate their oath of the Constitution,” said David.
… he’s recovering at home, but will likely need a few surgeries on his hand as a result
Between Jo Ann Hardesty, this guy, and Naked Athena we’re getting folkloric characters out of this.
Further proof of Feds cosplaying as military looking ineffectual when faced by the real thing.
The DHS’s “Little Green Men” thank the establishment Dems for their financial support. $50-billion in appropriations approved by Pelosi and co., no strings attached.
His mannerisms are a lot like Cliff Steele from Doom Patrol
They wouldn’t want to break with precedent.
https://twitter.com/colinkalmbacher/status/1285299144744144897?s=21
40 USC 1315 simply grants to CBP the same power that most States grant to any individual.
For instance, the California model has:
- A private person may arrest another:
- For a public offense committed or attempted in his/her presence.
- When the person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his/her presence.
- When a felony has been in fact committed, and he or she has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it.
The only real difference is that a private person has no qualified immunity to hide behind if s/he in fact lacked reasonable cause. (Of course, that’s an enormous difference in a time that ‘qualified’ immunity has become absolute immunity!)
In bygone times, the power of a citizen’s arrest was not only a right, but a duty. (And still can be; most states still recognize the power of certain public officers, often sheriffs, to raise a posse. Of course, in such a case, an arrest warrant will ordinarily have been sworn out.)
So, protesters should be arresting the camouflaged hooligans beating and gassing people in the street? We’re gonna need some more vans.
Which holds other dangers in the current situation:
It is not a long step, after all, from badgeless Feds in unmarked rental vans to badgeless civilians in unmarked rental vans. As regards to this possibility, it’s important to keep an eye on one courthouse in New Mexico.
Back in June, when protestors assembled to remove a statue of a Spanish conquistador, a bunch of cospaly Rambos called the New Mexico Civil Guard showed up in opposition. (Eventually, in the middle of a scuffle, a guy named Steven Baca opened fire on the demonstrators.) Last week, Raul Torrez, the district attorney for Bernalillo County, sued the NMCG to stop the group from “usurping”—great word, by the way—the prerogatives of legitimate law-enforcement authorities.
Yeah whatever happened to “states rights”. I can’t believe people who bring that up would be inconsistent about it, and only do it when it’s politically convenient…
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