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The Minneapolis Police Department has declared tonight’s protest outside a downtown hotel an unlawful assembly, calling it a public nuisance, and ordered the crowd to disperse. bit.ly/3Yu1KW3

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@parkworldsfair.bsky.social

10 Jan

Unreal, after everything that place has been through, not just over the last few days, but literal years— they’re just still gonna give em all hell for anything. Their own police. Yeah. This is why people say ACAB.

hashfyre

@hashfyre.dev

Does the Governor, elected representatives of MN not control the police? As a non-Smerican this always confuses me. The Gov and other senators and such from MN are in support of the protest, the police are not. Who controls the state police in US?

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@busillis.bsky.social

10 Jan

In most cities they control themselves as a largely autonomous force. Laws only count as enforced, and the appearance that they aren't autonomous is mostly maintained by a careful agreement by mayors to not ask them to do anything they don't already want to.

hashfyre

@hashfyre.dev

11 Jan

Dang, you folks live in a Police State.

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@parkworldsfair.bsky.social

10 Jan

I think that’s kinda the general consensus of this conversation we were having. It just doesn’t make sense at all so it’s perfectly normal to be confused as hell.

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@parkworldsfair.bsky.social

10 Jan

Aka: they win no matter what Which still makes no sense! Love it.

Malachite Tigerbunny

@malachitetiger.bsky.social

10 Jan

Those particular police probably work for the municipal or county government. State police mainly do highway patrol.

Malachite Tigerbunny

@malachitetiger.bsky.social

10 Jan

Though that does just raise the question of why the Mayor isn't breathing down their necks to have a less adversarial response.

hashfyre

@hashfyre.dev

10 Jan

Yup, because in his bsky profile he is taking a very anti-ICE stance, but not acting as such. Weird. Once again, a very confused non-American observer, I remain.

Malachite Tigerbunny

@malachitetiger.bsky.social

10 Jan

He was clearly quite openly angry at ICE during an interview too, so I get the feeling "Police are just the largest gang" might be at play here and they have some mob coercion type thing going on?

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@parkworldsfair.bsky.social

10 Jan

Right there with you. Except, unfortunately, American.

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@parkworldsfair.bsky.social

10 Jan

Exactly. And that is why we are baffled, ha. Again, it’s almost impossible to make sense of considering who we know is ultimately in charge and how vast their stances differ. I just don’t get it, so I don’t blame the other person for being confused in the slightest

hashfyre

@hashfyre.dev

10 Jan

Thanks again for answering my query, much appreciated. We have horrible police too, but they mostly follow the state-party-line. So, we can predict which protest would be violently suppressed, and which ones escorted to safety. Police aren't this independent and chaotic here. Orderly-ACAB.

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@parkworldsfair.bsky.social

10 Jan

They have the ultimate oversight but there’s still a head of the DPS to “get through”, even though the governor oversees them. It’s just deranged, this is why law makes basically no sense to me anymore

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@parkworldsfair.bsky.social

10 Jan

The governor does oversee and appoint people to head the DPS, aka who oversees the state police or “state patrol”. It’s a branch of the DPS, but yeah, I don’t blame you for being confused because it’s confusing. When governors are against it and the head of the DPS apparently isn’t, there’s a prob

hashfyre

@hashfyre.dev

10 Jan

Thanks. But, even your mayor is publicly against ICE, thus he should be pro-protest. So the DPS can go against the state's Governor and the city's mayor and declare his own political stance? Either of them cannot override this order?