Two bills make it through the California legislative body, seeking to stop the federal agents and other tactics that terrorize the communities.
Signs of protest on Earth outside the Filip Burton Federal building in San Francisco said: “Protect our neighbors / Protegiendo nuestros vecinos” and “Keep families together / Manteniendo Familias Unidas”.
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California Senator Scott Winer (D-11th District) is in the mission of introducing a new secret police in America. His account, No secret policeman law . “We need to squeeze it in the bud and make it clear what the secret police do not do,” Viner told me. His colleague Rene Perez made a bill on satellite, No acting act (SB 805), which requires law enforcement to identify properly.
“The fact of disguised law enforcement officers running, essentially with ski masks, grabbing people and throwing them into unmatched machines is horrific,” Vinner said. “This is the opposite because it should be a free society. We do not make a secret police in this country – and this is what is happening.” Add to the mixture Stories vigilant and criminals Making masking as a camouflage federal agents to carry out their dirty work, and Winer says we have belonging to the disaster. He is also worried that if the secret police methods are normalized at the federal level, they will eventually overcome states and local law enforcement agencies.
“I work very closely with our state and local law enforcement. “But what the federal government now does is so harmful, and I worry that it can have an impact on law enforcement culture more widely. What makes ice deeply harmful to men and women in local law enforcement agencies.”
Both his bill, and Perez in recent weeks, have provided considerable support, including the reform alliance, led by Christina Soto Deer, former chief of staff of former lawyers of the San Francisco, George Hand and Cesa Budin. Deri told me that when the disguised agents go to the communities and systematically violate the rights of the fourth residents, it makes “the incredibly difficult prosecutor’s office to engage in criminal cases” against people arrested during these proceedings because the arrests are so spoiled.
Winer knows that even if California’s legislation brings its bill discussed this week and is likely to be adopted by the Senate next week, and the Perez’s bill will be a heavy battle to ensure that the federal agencies are currently in mind. But he says it’s a struggle to have. “Application here is not easy and simple,” he says. “But we have to try and we need to do what we can do.”
The bill was carefully formulated to refer to all Law enforcement officers, not just federal agents who Viner and Deri believe that they should insulate him from court problems, as well as the states, historically, given the great freedom how to control their police functions.
Legislators In New York discuss a similar bill as their colleagues in Illinois. Meanwhile members of the Council in the city Evanston, IllinoisThe resolution against masking was nominated. These bills and rulings can provide templates for democratic legislators and city councils across the country. They can also accelerate the legal confrontations between the city, the state and the federal authorities.
If the California bill is held by two-thirds, the scenario, taking into account the superfluous democrats in both wards, will immediately begin; If this is just a simple majority, the legislation will not come into force until January. One way or another, it will provide so much necessary Golden State ammunition in the fight against an increasingly lawless federal administration.
Once the law, the local departments of DAS and the police will launch a criminal investigation, complete with the powers of the summons to court, unknown disguised agents are still terrorized by their communities. They will be able to request personal documents from ICE and other federal agencies who show who are on duty, where are other information that allows them to find out who men and women are behind the masks. And they will be able to ask the grandchildren against the officers who have committed illegal actions.
A recent incident in San Bernadina shed light on why such a law is needed. Moscow immigration agents shot shot into a car with a family inside when they tried to remove the driver from the vehicle and take it into custody. The family managed to escape and return home where they called the local police. In the following confrontation, dozens of community members appeared to protect the family, while television crews shot confrontation. If the SB 627 were on the spot, the San Bernardine police would have been authorized for the arrest of federal agents, and the local DA would also be authorized to open an investigation into the use of excessive force and concealing the identity of federal agents. According to the law, residents could also initiate a civil case against their attackers.
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For Deberry, what happened to San Bernardine should be that the federation themselves are investigating – masked agents using excessive, potentially deadly against unarmed residents. But, of course, in the Trump era such federal investigations will not take place. Trump told law enforcement agencies be “unusually rude” in their fight against crimes and anti -immigration repression.
“There is no federal response to outrageous behavior,” says Debury, “and (legislators) we need to find out how to enter this gap.”
SB 627 and SB 805 do not represent the imagination. But in the era in which the secret police practice of the dictatorship is imported wholesale in the US using Wannabe Caudillo, they at least give Californians additional protection against predators of lawless, violent, violent Trump immigrants.
