New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Manhattan was part of an attempt by President Donald Trump to turn the United States into a “police state.”
Lander said, “Trump is trying to ratchet up conflict. He wants it to happen. That’s what today was about. That’s what doing this to ICE agents about. That’s what sending the National Guard into LA is. And it’s part of our challenge. We have to show up and do things like I did today, and we have to find ways to do it that are de-escalating because we can’t allow them to use conflict and violence to turn it into a
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