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That's been a position I've heard quite a bit and it's probably true, but it's important that local police do not answer to the feds. That's a significant check on federal power.
I don't think they needed to coordinate operations with the feds necessarily, but when protesters' interactions with ICE are getting into the territory of blocking traffic, brawling in the streets, or stalking them, then I think local police should step in. I see that more as keeping the peace than helping ICE.
They were way more permissive of "protesters" during the BLM mostly peaceful protests than I would have wanted, too.
If that's how the city is governed consistently, maybe the people who live there generally prefer it.
Oh boy, that'd an interesting conversation. Especially where I live. Downtown Santa Monica still has not recovered from the BLM riots.
I feel like the national politics has subsumed local politics, though. The line of accountability from the voter to the local politician seems more tenuous than ever.
I don't know at what point to consider things like this known nuisances that people need to choose to move over vs things that no one should have to tolerate.
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Of course, many right wingers were appalled at both Good’s killing and the subsequent celebration of state violence on the political right.
Not really. I lean right and think the shootings weren't justified.
At the same time, I think there's plenty of blame to go around. Including one aspect which I think doesn't get enough attention which is that if local police, who are more trained to deal with the community, were more cooperative, this type of escalation may have been avoided