• wheezy@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    This is by the design of our system. It’s significantly easier to arrest and detain minorities in minority neighborhoods without any evidence of the crimes of ICE. The fact that we have 7 actual cases we are aware of for these crimes by ICE should really raise a red flag that there are many many more that we are not even aware of. And this just murders we are talking about. We will find out in the coming years of rape, abuse, and other crimes these Nazis have done.

    Pretti and Good are the examples that should upset us not just for the injustice done to them. But also be seen as a question to all; what do they do when the cameras aren’t on them? What do they do when the people filming them don’t feel the shield of white privilege? We don’t get to see those videos.

    Using race as a reason to be a radlib and say ‘look at you caring now that white people die’ is dumb as fuck. Understanding how race plays a role in the ability for ICE to get away with their crimes is still of vital importancs though.

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      In full agreement. The amount of people getting intruded, kidnapped, roughhoused is so large, that it seems most Minneapolis residents have two degrees separation or less with someone who had their rights and personal safety violated by ICE. Most of these incidents aren’t on camera.

      Yes, I acknowledge that race is one of the largest factors ICE had Lunas Campos et. al in custody to begin with. However, I’m pushing back on the totally unnecessary holier-than-thou smugness and shoe-horning of identity politics when calling for respect for all of ICE’s murder victims. It takes away from the solidarity needed to put the focus on investigating and stopping ICE’s crime spree.