“My first job is to run this city,” Mayor Mike Johnston said. “But in today’s America, that means answering questions from our residents about what happens if ice troops des…

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston signed an executive order Thursday that’s intended to protect protesters demonstrating against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations if the city becomes the next target for a surge of agents.

His order requires Denver Police Department officers to intervene and detain ICE agents if they see any using “excessive force.” It also bans the federal agents from using city-owned property for their operations.

Standing in front of the City and County Building in downtown Denver, Johnston told reporters that his goal with the order wasn’t to provoke President Donald Trump. He said he didn’t have any information about whether ICE or the Trump administration intended to send an influx of agents to the city anytime soon.

“My first job is to run this city,” he said. “But in today’s America, that means answering questions from our residents about what happens if ICE troops descend on our city.”

  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Taking advantage of a legal loophole to privatize and mobilize your own private occupying army utilizing a department that was already out of control financially and legally while the world watches and commentates like they did with Palestine.

    It’s a good year plus to most people realizing what’s going on in the midterms, siezed media may even prolong that. That’s a long time for a militarized police to further militarize and normalize their presence and to test out all the neat counter insurgency technology that anyone can sell them the world’s largest pocketbook.

    It’s a good little while to decapitate any potential organizations and sprinkle around some felonies to keep folks from voting and whatnot.

    You do have to admire the game and wonder about planning and happenstance.

    Watching the monopoly on violence shift is unsettling. The devil you know and all that.

    Honestly, watching the waves of revolution sweep across Arab and then Asian countries must have just scared the be Jesus out of some folk.

    Is it the death throws or birth pangs of a new world order, or fools tilting at windmills?