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torstenvltoday at 12:25 AM6 repliesview on HN

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zaptheimpalertoday at 2:23 AM

The people doing the arresting have no ID and wear masks, arrest people without any evidence, throw them in detention centers and then deny them their legal right to a bond hearing and instead detain them indefinitely. Even someone like you should understand, police are not the judges, they can arrest someone but detaining them for a long period of time requires ascertaining their legal status and offering a chance for bond. The judges also overwhelmingly ruled the same thing, while ICE is directly disobeying their legal orders. If they were law enforcement, they would be following the law not breaking it.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/ice-detainees-succe...

Sparkle-santoday at 12:34 AM

Arresting people solely on the basis of their skin color or having an accent is akin to kidnapping. How many legal residents and citizens are you comfortable with being arrested without a sound legal basis? My number is zero.

autoexectoday at 12:39 AM

What happened to George Retes was not law enforcement

Arainachtoday at 1:09 AM

>Law enforcement is not an armed gang

It always has been in America. Literally, the history of policing starts with armed gangs looking for escaped slaves, and never went away from those roots. You can see this in their "us or them" combative mentalities, their utter refusal to hold officers accountable even when obviously guilty, their tactics when governments try to impose rules on them, and everything else they do.

wat10000today at 3:07 AM

How are they not? They’re definitely armed, so only the “gang” part is questionable. Wikipedia says:

“A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.”

I’d say that fits some law enforcement pretty well.