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highplainsdem

(60,144 posts) Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:35 PM 18 hrs ago

George Conway posts tonight about ICE violently grabbing a legal observer, US citizen, and putting a knee on his neck

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the clip:
— George Conway âš–ï¸ðŸ‡ºðŸ‡¸ (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2026-01-13T02:23:04.655Z

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George Conway posts tonight about ICE violently grabbing a legal observer, US citizen, and putting a knee on his neck (Original Post) highplainsdem 18 hrs ago OP

I thought Tim Walz called up the NG to protect Minnesotans.... Sogo 17 hrs ago #1

dear police - please arrest and detain, prosecutors charge, and juries convict lapfog_1 17 hrs ago #2

So far as I can tell quakerboy 15 hrs ago #10

What in the world did this guy do to offend the goons? Bayard 17 hrs ago #3

ICE is targeting legal observers duckworth969 17 hrs ago #4

What is a legal observer? Is it more than just a observing citizen? Bev54 16 hrs ago #7

Here's some info on that term. ShazzieB 15 hrs ago #11

Thank you Bev54 5 hrs ago #13

ICE is a terrorist organization sakabatou 17 hrs ago #5

They sure act like it. highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #9

Kick dalton99a 17 hrs ago #6

Thanks! highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #8

ProPublica: more than 40 cases of banned chokeholds by immigration agents muriel_volestrangler 10 hrs ago #12

Sogo

(6,990 posts)

1. I thought Tim Walz called up the NG to protect Minnesotans....

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:44 PM

17 hrs ago

Where are they????

lapfog_1

(31,691 posts)

2. dear police - please arrest and detain, prosecutors charge, and juries convict

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:50 PM

17 hrs ago

and judges sentence these fucking assholes...

Before the mass executions of protesters start.

quakerboy

(14,727 posts)

10. So far as I can tell

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 13, 2026, 12:55 AM

15 hrs ago

Police are likely to help the thugs, not the citizens.

Id love for a department somewhere to prove me wrong. But it hasnt happened yet to my knowledge.

Bayard

(28,669 posts)

3. What in the world did this guy do to offend the goons?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:53 PM

17 hrs ago

duckworth969

(1,212 posts)

4. ICE is targeting legal observers

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 10:57 PM

17 hrs ago

Bev54

(13,216 posts)

7. What is a legal observer? Is it more than just a observing citizen?

Reply to duckworth969 (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 11:53 PM

16 hrs ago

Sorry, Canadian here, have never heard the term before except in elections.

ShazzieB

(22,233 posts)

11. Here's some info on that term.

Reply to Bev54 (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:28 AM

15 hrs ago

Here's what I found out:

Legal observers are individuals, usually representatives of civilian human rights agencies, who attend public demonstrations, protests and other activities where there is a potential for conflict between the public or activists and the police, security guards, or other law enforcement personnel. The purpose of legal observers is to monitor, record, and report on any unlawful or improper behaviour. Legal or human rights observers act as an independent third party within a conflictual civil protest context, observing police behaviour in order to keep police accountable for their actions. Legal observers can write incident reports describing police violence and misbehaviour and compile reports after the event. The use of video and still cameras, incident reports and audio recorders is common.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_observer