Breaking: Law-breaking protesters can be treated like they’re breaking laws.
I know, this sounds like a joke. And it is, although probably not the way you think: It took a federal appeals court to rule that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can use the typical methods of dealing with people who are breaking the law while protesting immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.
“The ruling by the three-judge panel 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals put a stay on a lower court ruling that prevented officers from arresting, detaining, pepper-spraying or retaliating against protesters in Minneapolis without probable cause as anti-ICE agitators continue to confront authorities carrying out enforcement operations,” Fox News reported.
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“We accessed and viewed the same videos the district court did,” the ruling read.
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