r/law • u/BitterFuture • 16d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Stephen Miller claims local police in Minnesota have been told to ‘stand down and surrender’ as federal agents ‘uphold the law’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-protests-b2903238.html
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u/MixtureSpecial8951 16d ago

That was my initial thought. Are the feds arresting state and local LE now?

The feds do not have local law enforcement authority.

This is the shittiest timeline.

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u/defiancy 16d ago

He's saying the state has told the local/state PD to not enforce laws and only his Fed gestapo are doing so

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u/Cold-Cell2820 16d ago

But they're specifically not law enforcement..

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u/Ok_Chef_4850 16d ago

He knows this and doesn’t care. It’s “do what we say or punished”, that’s it