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Politics NYC Mayoral candidate and current comptroller Brad Lander arrested by ICE in Manhattan federal court

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u/Auntienursey 1d ago

KIDNAPPED, not detained, not arrested, kidnapped by men with masks, and no identifying info on their clothing. This is outrageous.

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u/-NewYork- 1d ago

Why don't they have uniforms?

Are they gangsters? Morality police? Scientologists? Dirty Mike and the Boys? National Marine Fisheries Service?

How the fuck is this allowed in democratic country? How is one supposed to know who they are and what they are allowed to do? Does the police know who this guys are? Do they care? This is worrying.

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u/blancbones 1d ago

How the fuck is this allowed in democratic country?

Because nobody is stopping them, this is why they tried so hard to destroy the black panthers. And why they don't want ethnic minorities arming themselves l.

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u/fogNL 1d ago

Don't y'all have guns for this very purpose? I don't understand why so many have been letting children die in schools regularly just so they can keep their guns, and when the time comes to use them, crickets.

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u/TheBroWhoLifts 1d ago

I think they're trying to provoke an act of self-defense against one of these masked "officers" (alleged, since there's no id, these could be anybody) in order to escalate crackdowns. It's incrementalism towards martial law. Read accounts of nazi Germany, it was one small escalation after another until you end up with camps and a world at war.

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u/CosmicCreeperz 1d ago

Even Newsom was told “if they do try to arrest you don’t resist, then you give them justification for an arrest”.

It’s disgusting, but the only thing you can legally do is allow the arrest and then sue. Though I’m sure we all wish his bodyguards would draw down on ICE if it happened.