@Powerfromspace1 This is how low level #cops, #sheriffs, #troopers, #ice and all manner of #lawenforcement feel empowered to do as they feel. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if some #ice gopher did this as retaliation for being rejected by a #Canadian he hit on.
@msfreepress This is when local #cops, #sheriffs and #state popo are unleashed to run roughshod over people they don't like. If you ever mouthed off to a cop, you're SOL. If you ever filed a complaint, you're up the creek. If you ever contested a ticket. kiss your ass goodbye bc they now own your ass.
@rbreich Yo Bob, take your optimism and stick it where the sun don't shine. We're in throes of a civil war, yammering from atop your high horse in academia isn't going to stop #MAGAmoron from ordering #troops, #sheriffs and #cops to fire at will into crowds of protestors. I hope you know how to protect yourself when they show up to march you off to a concentration camp.
"Missouri GOP’s Effort to Take Over St. Louis Police Hearkens Back to Civil War"
Local and state #cops and #sheriffs will form the backbone of #MAGAmoron and #gqp #gestapo. They're generally goose-stepping masochists and power hungry imbeciles.
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"Another federal program, called 287(g), grants sheriff deputies permission to act as immigration agents themselves, questioning arrestees about their nationality and transferring them to ICE’s custody."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-sheriffs-might-power-trumps-deportation-machine
@TucsonSentinel I've been beating this drum for months. #AgentOrange will deputize all #NationalGuard, #statetroopers, #sheriffs and local #police to carry out his #redneck #racist policies with impunity. Blue states will be overwhelmed by people who leave everything behind to escape redneck states. Those who refuse to leave will be rounded up and imprisoned a'la 1942 #concentrationcamps.
MAGA Sheriff Faces Consequences for Threatening Own Constituents
Portage County, Ohio, Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski asked his constituents to report local Kamala Harris supporters
https://newrepublic.com/post/186241/sheriff-election-duty-donald-trump-kamala-harris
#sheriffs #MAGAsheriff #Ohio # BruceZuchowski #authoritarianism #GOP #Trumpism #EnablingFascism #MAGA #xenophobia #ElectoralFraud #VoterSuppression
Ohio sheriff tells residents to write down the addresses of Harris-Walz supporters
Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski urged residents of an Ohio county to report neighbors with Harris-Walz signs
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/16/ohio-sheriff-tells-residents-to-write-down-the-addresses-of-harris-walz-supporters
* Ohio Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski: https://brucezforsheriff.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_County,_Ohio#Government
#sheriffs #Ohio # BruceZuchowski #authoritarianism #GOP #Trumpism #EnablingFascism #MAGA #xenophobia #ElectoralFraud #VoterSuppression
Constitutional sheriffs wield unchecked power across America
Jessica Pishko says a group of sheriffs have become a flashpoint in current politics of toxic masculinity, guns, white supremacy, rural resentment
* Jessica Pishko (book): The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko
More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade — and it's increasingly happening in small towns and rural areas.
"The Justice Department declined to comment."
#USA #Police #Sheriffs #CountySheriffs #LawEnforcement
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/
In 1845, millions of Irish fled the famine, the majority coming to the U.S.
Nearly half of all U.S. immigrants in the 1840s were Irish.
The racism against them was phenomenal.
There were the No Irish Need Apply signs outside businesses looking for workers.
Anti-Irish nativist gangs, like New York’s Bowery Boys, and Baltimore’s Plug Uglies carried out pogroms in Irish communities.
These gangs often affiliated with political parties like the No Nothings and the Republicans.
Irish gangs, affiliated with the Democratic Party, began to form for self-defense.
At least twenty people died in anti-Irish riots in Philadelphia in 1844.
Irish Origins of the Myth of the Molly Maguires
According to legend, there was a widow living in Ireland in the 1840s named Molly Maguire,
who hated the landlords who were abusing the poor tenant farmers.
She supposedly carried a pistol strapped to each thigh.
She, or her followers, would beat or murder the tyrannical landlords, their agents, and bailiffs, whenever they tried to evict a tenant.
No one knows if she ever really existed, but other tenant farmer activists were said to cry out,
“Take that from a son of Molly Maguire!” when protesting against unscrupulous landlords.
@MikeDunnAuthor
#Pinkerton #Detective #Agency #Reading #Railroad #Black #Thursday #Molly #Maguires #union #activists #sheriffs #school #board
However, there is no evidence that an organization called the Molly Maguires ever existed in the U.S.
James McParland, an #agent #provocateur who worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency,
and who provided the plans and weapons the men purportedly used in their crimes,
provided the only serious evidence against the men.
The entire legal process was a travesty:
a private corporation (the #Reading #Railroad ) set up the investigation through a private police force (the #Pinkerton #Detective #Agency ) and prosecuted them with their own company attorneys.
No jurors were Irish, though several were recent German immigrants who had trouble understanding the proceedings.
Nearly everything people “know” today about the Molly Maguires comes from Allan Pinkerton’s own work of #fiction,
"The Molly Maguires and the Detectives" (1877),
which he marketed as nonfiction.
His heavily biased book was the primary source for dozens of academic works, and for several pieces of fiction, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s final Sherlock Holmes novel, "Valley of Fear" (1915), and the 1970 Sean Connery film, "Molly Maguires."
The Day of the Rope
The Molly Maguires became international news on June 21, 1877, when the authorities
hanged ten Irish miners in a single day in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
Known as #Black #Thursday, or Day of the Rope, it was the second largest mass execution in U.S. history.
(The largest was in 1862, when the U.S. government executed 38 Dakota warriors).
The authorities accused the Irishmen of being terrorists from a secret organization called the #Molly #Maguires.
They executed ten more over the next two years, and imprisoned another twenty suspected Molly Maguires.
Most of the convicted men were #union #activists.
Some even held public office, as #sheriffs and #school #board members.
https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/
In at least 14 states, "Bonds for the Win" activists attempted to serve #sham #paperwork to school districts, in several cases causing commotions that required police intervention.
And the number of people joining their cause is quickly growing as misinformation about the strategy’s effectiveness circulates.
On the chat app Telegram, where the activists organize, Bonds for the Win’s main channel grew from 700 subscribers to nearly 20,000 in the past month. Its members focus on #schools, but they have also served paperwork to a handful of #county #commissioners and discussed plans to go after other local officials, #judges and #sheriffs with similar claims.
Bonds for the Win is using these battles as a way of drawing in followers, demonstrating how quickly a faulty fringe tactic can generate momentum as frustrated parents join forces with conspiracy theorists.
#Miki #Klann, a QAnon adherent in Scottsdale, Arizona, who has said she believes AIDS is a hoax and that the Earth is flat, founded Bonds for the Win in December.
“We want the people to understand their 'sovereignty'.” Klann said in a recent video
The group’s strategy of intimidating government bodies with paperwork has been used in the past by #sovereign #citizens
-- loosely affiliated #rightwing #anarchists who believe federal and local governments are operating illegitimately.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/parents-mask-schools-surety-bonds-rcna16872
Warum die rassistischen Patrouillen von selbsternannten “#Sheriffs”, bei denen Jagd auf Migrant*innen gemacht wird, auf breite Unterstützung der aktuellen, griechischen Regierung stoßen, erfahrt ihr im Text. 
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1175893.html
Everyone knows that the US strategy for dealing with #COVID19 was... messy. In this new short article, @efarris & I point to right-wing extremism among county #sheriffs as a specific obstacle to a healthy, functioning federal system.
Tldr; right-wing extremism among sheriffs is associated w their refusal to enforce mask mandates. It is a danger to democracy.
#openaccess and out now! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.13244
