What’s it like living in Minneapolis / St. Paul right now?
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There are local tow companies offering free towing for the car of anyone who was abducted so that the people whose car it is don’t end up with a tow fee or a parking ticket…in case they are able to get out of detention and return to their life. Neighbors contacted them.
Then Minneapolis Police showed up and wanted to tow and ticket the car immediately. Neighbors had to argue the police out of it — and did eventually manage to.
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be good if the police start issuing tickets and fines to ICE. they're the ones clogging the streets.
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@inthehands - We had that here, too. People just weren't there anymore.
About 50 years later, people started remembering. After some fights with local governments, it has become typical to place brass cobblestones in front of their houses with names, birthdates, and the Concentration Camp where they were murdered or perished.
You can find them on many inner city sidewalks.The degree to which they are hated by some is testament to how necessary they are.
@axel_hartmann @inthehands I introduced my kids to those "Stolpersteine" (stumbling rocks/blocks), and now they gravely point them out whenever they discover them. It's IMHO one of the most important art projects of the last century, and has become an entire movement starting with the efforts of a single man, Gunter Demnig.
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be good if the police start issuing tickets and fines to ICE. they're the ones clogging the streets.
@paul_ipv6 @inthehands honestly, I've been wondering that for a while. If there is a masked, unidentified person abducting people in broad daylight, isn't it supposedly the police's job to stop them? I mean could be anyone, without a badge we can't know for sure, after all.
(And I know, expecting the police to actually do their job instead of committing crimes themselves is a tall order, but still)
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What’s it like living in Minneapolis / St. Paul right now?
This weekend, ICE abducted two people straight out of a car near where I live. Just straight up stopped the car and took them.
I found out because neighbors were trying to figure out what to do with the car, which ICE just left there blocking the street.
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Insane and meant to bully and instigate fear…
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The car appears to be a rental. It had Amazon packages in the back seat — just received? Or (more likely) being delivered? Probably these were people just out there doing their delivery job, try to make ends meet.
But we don’t know, because nobody was able to find out who they are.
I hope they get out. I hope they get their car back. I hope a lot of things.
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@inthehands honestly, the best hope is that Jeff bezos objects to having his slave labour raptured with packages undelivered.
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What’s it like living in Minneapolis / St. Paul right now?
This weekend, ICE abducted two people straight out of a car near where I live. Just straight up stopped the car and took them.
I found out because neighbors were trying to figure out what to do with the car, which ICE just left there blocking the street.
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@inthehands I keep wanting this to happen in a stand your ground state where someone (rightfully) defends themselves against an unidentified masked goon trying to kidnap them.
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What’s it like living in Minneapolis / St. Paul right now?
This weekend, ICE abducted two people straight out of a car near where I live. Just straight up stopped the car and took them.
I found out because neighbors were trying to figure out what to do with the car, which ICE just left there blocking the street.
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@inthehands
We Americans need to begin creating and installing our own version of the German “solpersteine”, “stumbling stones” set into pavements and streets for every individual kidnapped or murdered by ICECBPDHS agents. Never forget! Never forgive! -
@inthehands
We Americans need to begin creating and installing our own version of the German “solpersteine”, “stumbling stones” set into pavements and streets for every individual kidnapped or murdered by ICECBPDHS agents. Never forget! Never forgive!@Radaghaz @inthehands those exist in other countries too, and are indeed important and powerful.
https://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/the-art-memorial/stolpersteine"Our STOLPERSTEINE have so far been laid in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Hungary.
As of August 2024, the project has grown to over 107,000 stones laid in almost 1900 municipalities."
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@inthehands honestly, the best hope is that Jeff bezos objects to having his slave labour raptured with packages undelivered.
I keep reminding people that we live in a plutocracy not a democracy. Even Harvard admits it now.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracyGetting our economic overlords to care about what's happening is the primary within-the-system method that we can use to turn our national course.
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@paul_ipv6 @inthehands honestly, I've been wondering that for a while. If there is a masked, unidentified person abducting people in broad daylight, isn't it supposedly the police's job to stop them? I mean could be anyone, without a badge we can't know for sure, after all.
(And I know, expecting the police to actually do their job instead of committing crimes themselves is a tall order, but still)
@sophieschmieg
In my city ICE chased a gardener into the restaurant he was working for, city cops in there eating completely ignored the unconstitutional grab.Cops do not know or defend the law. They terrorize poor people, just like ICE is doing.
@paul_ipv6 @inthehands -
What’s it like living in Minneapolis / St. Paul right now?
This weekend, ICE abducted two people straight out of a car near where I live. Just straight up stopped the car and took them.
I found out because neighbors were trying to figure out what to do with the car, which ICE just left there blocking the street.
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@inthehands Sounds like Chicago a few months ago
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@sophieschmieg
In my city ICE chased a gardener into the restaurant he was working for, city cops in there eating completely ignored the unconstitutional grab.Cops do not know or defend the law. They terrorize poor people, just like ICE is doing.
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The car appears to be a rental. It had Amazon packages in the back seat — just received? Or (more likely) being delivered? Probably these were people just out there doing their delivery job, try to make ends meet.
But we don’t know, because nobody was able to find out who they are.
I hope they get out. I hope they get their car back. I hope a lot of things.
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Posting a number for people to report missing family and friends sometimes works. If you have someone who can do aftercare who shows up consistently and builds relationship, that is a good method too.
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The car appears to be a rental. It had Amazon packages in the back seat — just received? Or (more likely) being delivered? Probably these were people just out there doing their delivery job, try to make ends meet.
But we don’t know, because nobody was able to find out who they are.
I hope they get out. I hope they get their car back. I hope a lot of things.
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Just like Nazi Germany.
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I keep reminding people that we live in a plutocracy not a democracy. Even Harvard admits it now.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracyGetting our economic overlords to care about what's happening is the primary within-the-system method that we can use to turn our national course.
@MellowTigger @inthehands ugh, it's yucky, but whatever, survival means holding your nose.
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The car appears to be a rental. It had Amazon packages in the back seat — just received? Or (more likely) being delivered? Probably these were people just out there doing their delivery job, try to make ends meet.
But we don’t know, because nobody was able to find out who they are.
I hope they get out. I hope they get their car back. I hope a lot of things.
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Fucking darkgrim.
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@inthehands Minneapolis police sure do a bang-up job of "protecting and serving".
@SharpCheddarGoblin @inthehands
The cops never say exactly who they "protect and serve"
#ACAB -
The car appears to be a rental. It had Amazon packages in the back seat — just received? Or (more likely) being delivered? Probably these were people just out there doing their delivery job, try to make ends meet.
But we don’t know, because nobody was able to find out who they are.
I hope they get out. I hope they get their car back. I hope a lot of things.
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@inthehands
Are people going to local council meetings and demanding protection by local government and police department? If the local government refuses to protect their citizens, then they’re culpable -
The car appears to be a rental. It had Amazon packages in the back seat — just received? Or (more likely) being delivered? Probably these were people just out there doing their delivery job, try to make ends meet.
But we don’t know, because nobody was able to find out who they are.
I hope they get out. I hope they get their car back. I hope a lot of things.
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@inthehands
I am so sorry you are dealing with this.To try to prevent these situations, Human Rights First created an app called "Ready Now" for immigrants or anyone who might be abducted. I have it even though I'm white and a citizen by birth, because I do ICE watch. It gives you a "panic button" to push on your phone to send an emergency message to your chosen contacts that ICE may have taken you. Mine just asks my neighbor to feed the cats and get me a lawyer.
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@inthehands
I am so sorry you are dealing with this.To try to prevent these situations, Human Rights First created an app called "Ready Now" for immigrants or anyone who might be abducted. I have it even though I'm white and a citizen by birth, because I do ICE watch. It gives you a "panic button" to push on your phone to send an emergency message to your chosen contacts that ICE may have taken you. Mine just asks my neighbor to feed the cats and get me a lawyer.
@inthehands
Obviously we need to abolish ICE, but in the meantime anybody can use this app to feel somewhat safer.
