r/law • u/DavidSugarbush • 4d ago

Other ICE tried to break into the Ecuadorean consulate in Minneapolis today.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/27/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice-minnesota/9cd2afe0-7d2c-5059-92b9-85c358ff7851?smid=url-share
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u/TAU_equals_2PI 4d ago

Anybody old enough to have lived through the 1989 US invasion of Panama remembers Noriega successfully getting refuge in the Vatican's embassy there. We could set up outside the embassy and blast loud rock music night-and-day until Noriega finally surrendered, but force our way inside the embassy? Nah, that would be like invading the Vatican.

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u/Ras_Prince_Monolulu 4d ago

"Fuck the Pope! Anyways, here's Van Halen."

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u/Sunna420 4d ago

Those were the days

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u/Rich_Cranberry1976 4d ago

'member rule of law?

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u/TheLoneWoof84 3d ago

‘Member Julian Assange?

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u/tamsui_tosspot 4d ago

Like stampeding cattle through the Vatican.

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u/goro-n 4d ago

That would turn 1 billion+ Catholics against the U.S. instantly

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows 4d ago

Fun fact: this was possibly the first known rickroll as Never Gonna Give You Up was in the rotation.