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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

10 Jan

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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@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

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?

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