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.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    20 hours ago

    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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      19 hours ago

      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.