Talking to the Seattle Metropolis Council on Tuesday, our metropolis’s interim police chief, Shon Barnes, said something remarkable: “I’ll do all the things in my energy to guard anybody in Seattle from anybody who involves this metropolis with the intention to harm them or inhibit their First Modification rights. What meaning is that, in some unspecified time in the future, I’ll most likely go to jail and be in jail, as a result of we now have an administration that has threatened to jail politicians and certainly has carried out so in Milwaukee and has threatened to jail a governor.”
When a police chief significantly anticipates being jailed by federal authorities for doing his responsibility, that could be a stark indication that we live in unusual and threatening instances. (Barnes has but to be confirmed by the complete Metropolis Council.)
The Trump administration has introduced that Seattle and different main cities will probably be focused for Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids as a part of the merciless and largely illegal countrywide roundup of allegedly undocumented immigrants. President Donald Trump has already despatched troops to Los Angeles to bully the protesters who’ve tried to intervene with the raids. If and when the president turns his malevolent eye to Seattle, Barnes has made it clear he is not going to cooperate with ICE brokers and can help the correct of residents to peacefully protest.
In regular instances, the chief’s place can be unexceptional, however the would-be authoritarian within the White Home backs police solely when they’re keen to behave as his private storm troopers. After they go towards his plans, as law enforcement officials did when he despatched a mob to assault the U.S. Capitol, he considers them enemies.
Barnes shouldn’t be being overly dramatic. He’s demonstrating a transparent understanding of the menace to the Structure and the rule of legislation posed by the Trump regime.
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