I’ll have to look for a video later. I want to see if any police were there and watch their faces. My personal belief is that law enforcement at all levels is populated with people with similar morals as ICE.
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The cops won't do it. This is why mayors haven't been doing this. Cops will just ignore the order and expose that the mayor isn't the one with power. Anyone expecting the fucking cops to protect anyone from ICE is delusional.
Then it'll be easy to tell which cops need to be immediately fired for cause. If trump can purge the military, mayors can purge the police.
Trump can purge the military, because there's nobody to stop him. I guess the mayors could fire all the cops, which would be fucking rad, tbh. I doubt any of them would do it though. Trump or even their governor would probably have them arrested and reinstate all the cops.
i mean, they are all apparatus of the state. local police unlikely to arrest federal police because that is absolutely not going to end well for your local police department given the vindictiveness of the current federal security leadership. they are all on the same team, even when there's infighting.
Then they can enjoy unemployment. Fuck 'em.
I think there's also a high likelihood the Supreme Court tells them they can't do this. Even though it's totally legal as of existing precedent.
ICE has caused more harm to a city. They are actively bringing crime with them. Schools have been in lockdown because of them. They go into small businesses and neighborhoods in plainclothes and face masks, making the city unsafe.
Do you think the 9-11 hijackers ever thought they'd have a much easier time if they just screamed "federal agents!" instead?
Johnston has his heart in the right place, but DPD is not exactly "stand up to fascism" material themselves.
If the cops even hope to attempt a resuscitation of the public image of their "institution" - there better be a ton of footage of them detaining and arresting ICE goons.
The alternative is both institutions ending up on the wrong side of the history mob..
https://www.boycottcitizens.org/ice
https://icelist.is/ https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php?title=Main_Page
https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/for-communities/
https://www.standwithminnesota.com/
https://www.mobilize.us/dfl/event/887602/
https://resistancedirectory.com/links/codepink/
https://www.nilc.org/resources/know-your-rights-card/
https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/NILC-KYR-Card-English.pdf
https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/
If you’re currently versed in Firearms and are able to start a chapter, or if you are lucky enough to live in an area with a local chapter the SRA is a good organization. However they are apparently fractured and their politics may not align. https://socialistra.org/
https://www.blazingsword.org/ is better for LGBTQ+ anarchists that tend to not get along with Tankies.
https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/john-brown-gun-club
Good basis of organized tactics. The guide below is more about organized movement than direct fire. Below will NOT help you in a firefight as it relies on a much larger trained force than you are likely to have. Good to know what the bastards study though. https://www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Portals/207/Docs/TBS/B2F2837%20Rifle%20Squad%20Tactics.pdf?ver=2015-05-27-100939-710
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarch-ish-how-to-win-at-kettling-a-guide-for-non-policemen
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184.txt.utf-8
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/organizing-armed-defense-in-america
I can't wait for city cops to start arresting ICE Apes. Hopefully there's a shoot-out, and every cop in America will instantly hate the ICE Apes.
Eventually they'll just stay in Blue cities in friendly Red states, and just abuse innocent people trapped behind enemy lines, where they can expect no assistance from the authorities.
I hope I have to eat my own words but expecting cops to stand up for citizens is on par with believing in Santa
Cops love to abuse people, and they don't really care who it is. They get in trouble for choosing their own victims, so if they are told that ICE Apes are fair game, they'll happily go abuse ICE Apes.
They absolutely do care who it is. Notice how they never bother dealing with car noise complaints, coal rollers, or violence committed by right wing demonstrators?
The first two are because they don't want to do the paperwork.
But risking legal action or armed retaliation?
I hope there are shoot-outs, seems Win-Win to me.
And this administration LOVES lawsuits, it's their hobby.
Taking advantage of a legal loophole to privatize and mobilize your own private occupying army utilizing a department that was already out of control financially and legally while the world watches and commentates like they did with Palestine.
It's a good year plus to most people realizing what's going on in the midterms, siezed media may even prolong that. That's a long time for a militarized police to further militarize and normalize their presence and to test out all the neat counter insurgency technology that anyone can sell them the world's largest pocketbook.
It's a good little while to decapitate any potential organizations and sprinkle around some felonies to keep folks from voting and whatnot.
You do have to admire the game and wonder about planning and happenstance.
Watching the monopoly on violence shift is unsettling. The devil you know and all that.
Honestly, watching the waves of revolution sweep across Arab and then Asian countries must have just scared the be Jesus out of some folk.
Is it the death throws or birth pangs of a new world order, or fools tilting at windmills?
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. -Antonio Gramsci