What’s it like living in Minneapolis / St. Paul right now?

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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@Iwillyeah @inthehands

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-plutocracy

Getting 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.

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 Minneapolis police sure do a bang-up job of "protecting and serving".

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.

3/

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.

3/

@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.

https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/human-rights-first-launches-readynow-app-to-offer-lifeline-to-immigrants-during-ice-encounters/

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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@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)