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How would you characterize what ICE is doing in the Minneapolis area? There are plenty of videos at this point of questionable behavior, to say the least. The chief of the MPD talked about how his officers of color have been harassed when they're not in uniform. I've listened to several historians and experts on autocracy talk about ICE in those terms.




Well, I certainly wouldn't use the words "paramilitary kidnapping gestapo". That is an absurd overstatement and amounts to propaganda.

Strictly speaking it probably gives them slightly too much credit; the Gestapo was a conventional secret police force which had rules, however abhorrent, that it was largely bound by. “Paramilitary kidnapping SS” might more closely fit the lawlessness on display. At this point it appears to be more private army than law enforcement.



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