During the anti-ICE protest THP, despite orders to not escalate from MPD, charged protesters and started grabbing/cursing at them.

MPD blocked the road and redirected traffic around the protest and did not engage during the event.

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          Shitty cops are shitty cops, but in this case MPD was allowing protestors to peacefully protest and feds who are in their city to strip away their (and the entire city’s) autonomy on behalf of the state of TN and the federal government, were being shitty cops.

          You don’t have to believe that, but the actual protestors do, so I feel like it’s important to mention

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          Probably not. See the federal government is trying to antagonize people and escalate things into a civil war. So they’re doing that thing they usually reserve for other countries where they go in and invade and just start picking fights because they know the police department of a small blue city in a red state, run by a Trump loyalist, in one of the poorest parts of the country can’t really defend themselves against the entire U.S. federal government anymore than a small country could defend itself against the U.S. military. It’s a whole to do…

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            And that’s why “acab” because they are letting the feds wipe their ass with the law. Don’t fool yourself the local “blue city” cops are as bright red as the rest of ice.