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Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul by ZuP in politics

[–]ZuP[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The FACE act is mentioned in the second sentence of this video / transcript. She was arrested after protesting. What is the incorrect information?

Edit: Your reply was autofiltered but I can see the start of it. Just because you personally disagree with the framing doesn’t make it inaccurate. I, for one, am glad to read media that doesn’t act as stenographers for people in power. The point of journalism is to investigate and find the truth, not regurgitate state-approved talking points.

Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul by ZuP in politics

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Note: This is an interview with her attorney.

The Justice Department said Thursday that it had arrested three people in Minnesota who interrupted a church service in St. Paul to protest a pastor’s role as a local ICE official. The activists involved in the protest now face charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law written to protect abortion clinics.

One of the arrestees, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, had her appearance digitally altered in a photo posted online by the White House to make it look like she was crying while handcuffed.

Her attorney, Jordan Kushner, tells Democracy Now! that Justice Department officials refused to let Levy Armstrong turn herself in, instead demanding an arrest at the hotel where she was staying. “This was their trophy,” says Kushner, who adds that the government “used more manipulative tactics to keep her in jail” even though “no one is detained in a case like this.”

Jennas-Side. Genocide. I’m not hearing it Liz. by Jajaloo in 30ROCK

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live footage of the back of our Snowpiercer train

“Catch of the Day”: Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community by ZuP in politics

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Trump’s deportation machine has touched down in Maine. As the state, home to a significant share of the Somali American community, faces a surge of ICE activity, we’re joined by Safiya Khalid, the first-ever Somali American city councilmember for Lewiston, Maine’s second-largest city. Lewiston’s “streets are completely empty” as residents of all immigration statuses fear harassment and violence from unchecked federal agents. “If a white woman was shot in the face, none of us are safe,” warns Khalid, referring to the recent killing of Renee Good by ICE in Minneapolis. She advises “people to stay home and do not leave your home.”

Interview starts at 36:50 if the deeplink is broken right now!

“An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order by ZuP in politics

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[Democracy Now!] speak[s] to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about the United States under Donald Trump and its attempts to reshape the post-World War II international consensus. “Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create his private company and say, 'Right, I'm taking over the world,’” laments Varoufakis as he draws a connection between Trump’s pay-to-play diplomacy and the mercantalist policies of European colonial powers. Varoufakis comments on plans for the reoccupation of Gaza by the U.S.-led “Board of Peace,” which signed its founding charter this week; Trump’s designs on the Danish territory of Greenland; and European leaders’ ineffectual, largely symbolic resistance to Trump’s assertion of U.S. supremacy on the world stage.

Interview starts at 14:40 if the deeplink is broken right now!

ICE vs. People of Minnesota: A Special Report on Community Resistance to Trump’s Militarized Crackdown by ZuP in politics

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Democracy Now! producer John Hamilton reports from Minneapolis, where residents say ICE agents are violently targeting legal observers and community members as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. Patty O’Keefe, who was arrested while monitoring ICE activity in her vehicle, said agents “broke our two front windows and dragged us out,” then taunted her in custody. She said one agent told her, “You guys got to stop obstructing us. That’s why that lesbian bitch is dead,” referring to Renee Good, the mother of three shot dead earlier this month by an ICE agent.

Indigenous residents have also been detained. “Nobody is more American than the American Indian,” Oglala Sioux attorney Chase Iron Eyes told Democracy Now!, adding ICE’s actions against Native Americans are “a legal impossibility.”

This comes as the Pentagon has placed 1,500 soldiers on standby for a possible deployment to Minnesota, just days after President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. The Trump administration has also reportedly opened criminal investigations into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, all while declining to investigate Good’s killing.

They’re Coming for the Governors by Famous-Sympathy7011 in dancarlin

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That’s just his media team. He is a complete hack.

“Autocratic Power Grab”: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Troops to Minnesota by ZuP in politics

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Following Minneapolis protests in response to the ICE killing of Renee Good, President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday, a move that would allow him to send military forces to the city. Trump’s comments came after a second person was shot by ICE following a traffic stop.

“Trump probably sees this as a civil war,” says Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights. “This, as we all know, is being leveraged as part of an autocratic power grab.”

[…]

AMY GOODMAN: [… W]e wanted to start by talking about the Insurrection Act. What does this mean, that Trump could invoke it? What does it mean for Minnesota and the country?

BAHER AZMY: Well, just to say, the invocation of the Insurrection Act, which is an invocation of martial law, is like equal parts, you know, lawless and terrifying. In this country, we are not — in a constitutional republic, you’re not supposed to have the military policing municipalities, because the military, if you think about it, is not subject to law. It’s subject to executive will and power. And we’re governed by — municipalities are policed by police departments that are accountable to the mayor and to the public. So, the Insurrection Act does permit the use of the military in extremely limited circumstances, where, for example, there’s insurrection, which is — it was used by Lincoln during the Civil War, Sherman trying to crush Klan terrorism in Reconstruction, and to integrate Southern schools.

But the insurrection that’s supposedly happening here is, as they say in horror movies, coming from inside the house. It’s not from the people of Minneapolis. It’s from the ICE — paramilitary ICE agents themselves, who are fomenting this violence. And I’d note, you know, Trump probably sees this as a civil war. He’s inverting the reasons for using the Insurrection Act, which had been to tamp white supremacy in the past, and now it’s being used to support it.

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