Comment by rickydroll
4 hours ago
Organized as in they have meetings, serve cookies, and coffee? Most likely not. These anti-ice groups seem to be extemporaneous meetups.
Define obstruction. Everything reported, blowing whistles, encouraging businesses not provide service to ICE agents, and recording from a distance is not obstruction. It's a First Amendment right to keep government forces in check.
There are many anti ICE activists that are organized. ACLU and Indivisible are two such groups. There are many instances of people obstructing federal agents by anti ICE activists and protesters.
Organised in that they have training manuals, roles, procedures and coordination via 1000 member signal groups.
Criminal because grabbing officers, directing traffic into operations, biting off fingers, blowing whistles directly into people’s ears, blocking agents with vehicles, and intimidating agents via doxxing all violate 18 U.S.C. § 111 which makes it illegal to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with federal officers (including ICE agents) during their duties.
To answer your question, no, I don't think the organized activity is criminal, and I don't believe the alleged criminal activity is organized.
A question for you: using your definition, do you think that ICE is an organized crime group?
Sheriff's deputy gangs are organized criminals working within Sheriff's departments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_Count...
ICE may well be a similar situation.
Comments like this just make me think people are jealous that right wing groups aren't good at organizing.