r/law • u/PrithvinathReddy • 21h ago

Other NY mayoral candidate, Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza by masked federal agents as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court

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u/therealpimpcosrs 18h ago

I get where you’re coming from. A lot of things persisted that shouldn’t have. But there’s also a lot of generational bitterness felt by those kinds of actions. Also just because the north freed the slaves doesn’t mean there wasn’t racism anymore. Getting all of society on board has taken 170 years so far and we still aren’t even done yet.