Off-duty police officers in the Twin Cities have been “targeted” by federal agents looking for proof of U.S. citizenship, Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said Tuesday. Bruley was among several law enforcement leaders who expressed their concerns at a press conference that Operation Metro Surge is leading to “civil rights violations in our streets.”

He added that in the last two weeks, as community members have been submitting “endless complaints,” that several of the officers in his department had also been stopped by federal law enforcement. “Every one of these individuals is a person of color,” Bruley added

  • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    “we attacked the public of our city to protect the ice agents, and our union issued a statement in full support of ice and their tactics, but now they’re hurting the wrong people!”

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    Okay, so now that ICE is attacking you, MPD, are you actually going to do your job to protect the people of Minneapolis and arrest the federal goons who are disturbing the peace?

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    Oh, the irony, of police officers being hassled and having guns pulled on them because of the color of their skin.

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    Yeah, I’m torn between thankful that they are acknowledging the problem and sad that it takes being personally affected to get there.

    Same with regretful MAGA voters with faces all leopard eaten…like, glad you had a change of heart, but seriously fuck you.

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      Hmm… I wonder how long it’ll be before people start dressing like ice, but not to do robberies, to harass police until they change tune about the whole thing…

      I mean if that’s what it takes, I think people will pick up on that pretty quickly… that’s going to get messy…

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    BEND THOSE ACAB KNEES!! Ur piggy orange baby god has convinced you to be loyal to the wrong things.

    Cops supports this fascist shit. Cops have choices, the same as the governed have.

    Every ACAB that just “does thier job” benefitting from the machine that crushes humans, you. Are. A. Bastard.

    Cops lie with impunity not following the same laws that govern the people. Cops have what no other profession have, qualified immunity, a lazy, and unconstitutional legal device to keep accountability specifically away from. Theost deadly citizens around.

    Police are a gang, raping individuals of property, valuables, liberty and at times Thier own bodily agency through rape. AND THEY ARE IGNORED FOR IT.

    So yeah. There are no good cops, there might be a human an off duty human that acts like fellow citzen, but they are not, they are part of a ruling class bludgeon. 1 cop occasionally doing the right thing is no answer to the broad systemic issues in American law enforcement, and no, it’s not the best option in the world, you fucking ape. TRAVEL.

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    If those pigs had done their jobs to begin with this would be a problem. But no they dont give a fuck until it affects them. Fuck those pigs.