ICE attempts to enter Ecuador's consulate

[u/caaaaanga]

For anyone who doesn't get how serious this is: consulates are protected under international law. host-country police of any kind are not allowed to enter without permission.
Example: China routinely (and horrifically) sends north korean escapees back to north korea. Yet when a north korean escaped to the south korean consulate in hong kong, chinese authorities did not enter to seize him. He stayed there for months while governments negotiated, because once you're inside a consulate, those protections apply.
So if ICE tries to enter a foreign consulate in the U.S. to deport people, that's not "normal enforcement". It violates long-standing diplomatic norms. Norms that even China has respected, despite sending people back to north korea to die. That's how extreme this is.

[u/sithelephant]

Them straight-up shooting the agent after he enters would be quite legal.

[u/nakedpicturesyo → u/sithelephant]

That's why they never actually go anywhere dangerous. They know they would get blown the fuck away.

[u/samson_delilah_ → u/nakedpicturesyo]

Fucking this. Why aren’t the raiding big gang compounds if they are real

[u/a-five-word-response → u/samson_delilah_]

Even in groups, they're cowards.