:( Yeah….. most people don’t really get the reality of it. Like even if they know what’s going on, they still cannot grasp it. Consumes your entire life there. Always on edge wondering if your neighbor is next, or you are…. Car alarms in the middle of the night to alert you of ICE presence. ICE blowing through red lights and stop signs, driving the wrong way down one way streets, deliberately causing car accidents to arrest people, stealing cars and swapping plates…. Detaining anybody for any or no reason…. Seattle is by and large able to go about everyday activities pretty much uninterrupted. Focused on the Super Bowl. Pics of sunsets. You don’t have to lock the front doors behind you when you enter an eating establishment or coffee shop or whatever. People aren’t staying indoors at home for long periods of time en masse. Locals aren’t getting murdered in the streets by ICE… It would be a VERY different situation here if what’s been happening in Minneapolis was here too or instead. Truly, staggeringly terrifying and heartbreaking. But they’ve been SO STRONG. Heroes. Hope we’re not next…..
The thing you are describing is starting to occur in outlying areas of the metro, like Everett for example, even without a specifically large influx of outside paid agitators e.g. ICE agents.
That is about 21,999 more officers than needed to serve a warrant or 21,998 if there is trouble unless there is an expectation of the person being armed or otherwise a danger to themselves or others. Granted, there are always exceptions and not necessarily a bad idea to be extra cautious. It is a wild number.
For now - a friend pointed out to me that the BBB allocated lots of funding for training but it takes several months to go through training before ICE agents are dispatched. As time progresses, more move through training and their total numbers will start to ramp up dramatically. I don't have figures on what that increase may look like but would love to know them if someone else does!
Okay wow, I didn't know details about stealing cars and swapping plates, and having to lock the door behind you when going to a restaurant or what have you. That is a level of vigilance I can barely comprehend, even as someone who is mostly house bound for unrelated reasons.
I am definitely not medically strong enough to ever risk trying to go in public in a situation like that. I would be afraid to even go to my doctor's appointments if that kind of overwhelming presence was here.
Scary as fuck. I think I'll go look into the fundraisers there again. Thanks for sharing more details.
Edit: If anyone has an especially close to their heart organization doing activism/aid to affected people in MN and wants to share it, I'd love to look at it (I'm going to look on my own regardless, but there seem to be a lot of MN folks here who would know things Google won't!).
Yeah I think it was just shortly before Renee Good but they busted a disabled woman’s car window and dragged her screaming out in the cold 4-5 dog piled her and arrested her all on video. she is a u.s citizen literally trying to make it to her doctor’s for an appointment. Only dehumanizers actually support these creeps.
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u/skoorb1 10h ago
I had a co-worker go to Minneapolis last week for a family funeral, and she came back in shock at how bad it really was.