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Comment by mindslight

5 days ago

Most of those cases occur when there is already some suspected criminality, at night, or preexisting intent to effect an arrest. Not that this makes any of those incidents okay, but this situation is an escalation beyond that in that their only "cause" to start violently aggressing in broad daylight basically boils down to perhaps a minor traffic infraction, which is well outside of their jurisdiction.

Furthermore, these abduction squads don't need to be rampaging American cities armed and creating these types of immediately-escalated conflicts in the first place. Even if you believe that immigration laws need to be strictly enforced, doing so does not require lawless paramilitary squads! Apparently part of the price of the current enforcement strategy is the killing of American mothers who are at worst blocking traffic. If this administration truly has a popular mandate to strictly enforce these laws, then they have all the time in the world to do so, right? Instead, they have framed this as some immediate emergency needing overwhelming militarized force attacking our entire society. With its price of dead Americans, this is simply impossible to justify.