And now political opponents have been murdered by an unidentified person wearing police clothes and driving a police car.
On the day of a military parade that would make Putin proud.
And most people don't care, or even cheer.
Also, although many people would pin this purely on the political climate there appears to be an inadequate system for reliable identification nowadays that is also enabling a rise in impersonations.
The Republican party believes it is acceptable for LEO and ICE to wear masks, refuse to give their names or badges or IDs, to swoop in with unmarked cars in plain clothes and point guns at civilians in order to kidnap "suspects" without warrant or apparent cause, then deny them lawyers and potentially ship them to other countries. They believe police should not wear bodycams, they believe they cannot be held liable for the damages, even bodily, that they cause. In fact, they even encourage the abuse of suspects and get on press conferences to explicitly state their plan to harm or kill. The sitting President has repeatedly joked about it on camera.
The Democratic party is the antithesis of this. Accountability, monitoring, zero-trust. Cameras, restraint, more limited roles, community outreach.
And now, here, someone dressed up as LEO assassinated Democratic legislators.
I really wonder how you got that impression.
I saw Democrats funding 'cop cities', and paying for police to learn their tactics from the IDF. I saw Biden proposing increasing police budgets by $1.7 billion dollars (after months of global BLM protests). I saw Obama, Biden and top Democrats happily voting to fund ICE, and boasting of deporting more immigrants than any other admin in history.
Republicans to police: "Shoot criminals dead."
Democrats to police: "Why can't you just shoot criminals in the leg?"
... That's not what an "antithesis" looks like.
If you want real reform of ICE and the police, and expect to get it from Democrats just because they say they will, then you're gonna have to keep ignoring an awful lot of inconvenient reality.
AnimalMuppet•7mo ago
Shooter is disguised as a police officer.
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e...
matsemann•7mo ago
nis0s•7mo ago
xnx•7mo ago
Is there an explanation for why ICE agents dress like TACTICOOL SWAT LARPers?
matsemann•7mo ago
mbrumlow•7mo ago
But if I were to guess. It’s because I’d a bunch of people rolled up in ICE uniforms it would in some situations make it easy to evade.
burnt-resistor•7mo ago
irthomasthomas•7mo ago
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/speaker-emerita-melissa-...
Edit - they have the SUV but the not the shooter. Police found him at the second address and exchanged gun fire with him before he escaped on foot.
Edit2 - SUV contains a list of targets, a manifesto, and many pieces of paper with 'No kings' printed on them. https://x.com/MnDPS_MSP/status/1933918239504929129