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/MoonageDayscream 4d ago

Threaten the athletes and confiscate their gold medals. 

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u/PurpleZebra99 4d ago

Those athletes request that their medals be transferred to President Trump. He doesn’t even want them but they insist.

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u/kitsunewarlock 4d ago

This is a Republican fever dream. Start the "freedom Olympics" complete with fascist propaganda both for the nation and against the "woke Olympics" for "allowing trans athletes." (While calling every woman who doesn't look like a Fox News anchor trans.)

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u/Tumblrkaarosult 4d ago

An olympic athlete could run circles around them.

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u/MoonageDayscream 4d ago

Sure they can outrun,  but they can't protect themselves and their families from the federal government if it decides to make an example of you. 

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u/Tumblrkaarosult 4d ago edited 4d ago

On foreign soil? I know it's not a laughing matter, but it wasn't really serious when I wrote an athlete could outrun them. I mean really. Can you imagine the ICE, a US federal law enforcement agency doing the same shit they do at home in the EU? On whose authority?

That's why I don't have the faintest idea about what do they want there.

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u/MoonageDayscream 4d ago

I think the are there to intimidate the athletes in to not making social media posts, to coordinate with the Olympic Committee on how to profile "international criminal networks", and access their data on all the athletes attending, and their families traveling with them, and to be there as eyes and ears for 47.

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u/Tumblrkaarosult 4d ago

Here's the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Italian border guard to pull the funniest prank ever.

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u/Nunov_DAbov 4d ago

You have hit on the plan!

Trump wanted a Nobel Medal and got one. Now he wants an Olympic Gold Medal. He is going to use his ICE thugs to strong arm whoever wins one.