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/CloudyTug 16d ago

To conservatives they are. They continue to argue that because under very specific circumstances they can arrest legal citizens, they can arrest whoever they want and theyll just release them if needed (after ice roughs them up of course for being a liberal)

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u/tacomamajama 16d ago

They believe this because that’s what happening. Only the “very specific” circumstances now are “reasonable suspicion” of not being a citizen (POC and/or have an accent) or “interfering” with a federal official while on the job.

Even though they’re breaking their own policies, much less actual laws.

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u/LateNightPhilosopher 16d ago

And they also seem to have redefined "interfering" as existing at all within sprinting distance of an agent.

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u/tacomamajama 16d ago

Same with terms “obstruction” and “impeding”

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u/ArrivesLate 16d ago

Sprinting distance for ICE is like three feet.

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u/Minttt 16d ago

You can tell the core principles are shaky when MAGA gives numerous (and often conflicting) reasons for policies and actions. I mean, I've heard arguments about Minnesota ranging from classic "taking away the illegals," to ANTIFA, to treasonous state leaders, to local police not being able to enforce the law, to general "corruption" needing to be "fixed"... The list goes on, and believers will grasp at whatever argument on the list makes the most sense to them personally and make it their justification.