Philadelphia's superstar Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner lays out a brilliant playbook for arresting and prosecuting Donald Trump's fascist ICE agents and troops as the MAGA crackdowns spiral out of control.
This plan even undermines the presidential pardon...
"If what you have is a group of ICE agents or you even have the military coming into Philadelphia and they're committing crimes, they're committing assaults that are illegal, homicides that are illegal, they're kidnapping people, they're engaging in unlawful restraint which is a crime in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..." Krasner said.
"They're obstructing the administration of justice..." he continued. "If you have people coming in — military, ICE, whoever it is — acting beyond their legal authority they can be prosecuted, assuming they commit crimes, in state court."
"And they cannot be pardoned by the president which means that they get to tell a Philadelphia jury exactly why it is that they thought that they could invade this city and they get to bear the consequences whether they are handcuffs, a jury trial, or a jail sentence," he concluded.
This is exactly the kind of hardline approach we need from all of our Democratic leaders. Trump and his minions are breaking the law at every turn and it's time that we started holding them accountable. These masked ICE agents think that they're above the law as they work to build a MAGA dystopia. They're in for a rude awakening.
By prosecuting any lawbreakers on a state level, Democrats can circumvent the presidential pardon which has been irreparably corrupted by Trump. He demonstrated a willingness to abuse it for purely political purposes with his mass pardon of the January insurrectionists. Any plan for fighting back against these Republican criminals must factor in that reality.
No I’m not…I don’t mean to sound naive. If what the ICE goons are doing is illegal, and I believe it is, they need to be arrested on the spot, or at the very least, told to leave.
That would be like what ICE is doing when they arrest congressional representatives for trying to inspect federal sites- there is no authority for them to make those arrests and they are interfering with a federal branch of government.
That's what Pritzgar advised to do. Call police. Get them on record, get their identity and pursue charges. It will help. If police have the backing of the governor and the community
I’d like to say, in the nicest possible way, that I think you’re being naive and I have fully sympathy (and concern) for the very sinister situation that has been developing in the US since January. The MAGA WH is taking over government and the country in a vicious, fast-moving neofascist coup. If whoever might be left to stop this doesn’t, it’s all over. I pray I’m misreading everything I’ve been seeing.
I’m concerned that when all is said & done, & ICE is dissolved, these (mostly) men, will not be able to control their worst impulses when returned to general society. Someone who’s been able to beat strangers into the ground, drag people out of their cars by their feet, & throw pregnant women against walls, with no accountability, will not be able to control themselves in a grocery store check out line, at the DMV, or an ER waiting room.
What on earth are these goons thinking? To grab people without knowing who they are, physically assaulting journalists and candidates. They need to be reminded that they don’t have to follow unlawful orders.
The media needs to find them and ask pointed questions.
They're being paid a heft salary and by some accounts also individual bonuses. They joined because they like this, or for the (very good) money, or both.
And of course, as somebody recently pointed out, there are a lot of armed radical right criminals pardoned jan 6 etc who might have taken up arms under ice’s ranks.
I’m glad to see people mixing it up with ICE in Chicago‼️ it’s good that we have some candidates out there who can experience this kind of fascism firsthand. This is sure to reinforce their campaigns going into the midterms.
This is not the America I grew up in!! This is totally disrespectful to the constitution and our forefathers!! Shame on ICE and choosing to treat fellow citizens or immigrants so horribly!! Is this how Jesus would want us to behave towards each other?
Please ask black, Hispanic, native American and Arab people if this is the America they grew up in. Because it is. We're going backwards to a time when this was acceptable behavior. But it's all happened before
Is it wrong of me to assume these MAGA gangs are salivating at the thought of an upcoming confrontation, likely to occur sooner rather than later, where both sides are armed with sprays, guns, etc? Is this their goal handed down from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?
This shit has to stop. Someone please make it stop. Let's hope the planned 250th birthday celebration extravaganza is a major clusterfuck. If we last that long.
In my opinion the US has been experiencing since jan a fast-moving, vicious neofascist takeover, i.e. coup and it is in its last stages. ICE is the MAGA WH military force.
Wait a minute!! Trump said he would deport dangerous criminnal undocumented immigrants. He didn't say he would deport people on VISA's and beat up on 80 year old US Citizens to try to equal Obama's legitimate deportations. Where is the Congress? Where is the Supreme Court? Oh Right! The Supreme Court made him a king. How do we get our Constitution back?
He’s ruling by decree and executive order. This is not what the Constitution called for. We need three separate but equal parts of our government for proper checks and balances. We should be taking names, making lists, targeting anyone who supports this fascistic behavior, particularly Members of Congress who are running for office in 2026. Call them out. Shame them. Open the eyes of every American to what is happening and what it means to everyone.
Yes, and to impress upon everyone who will listen that the MAGA WH has declared war on the people of the US, the constitution, and democracy. You’re in the end stages of a neofascist coup and what’s coming will be far worse than now. This is an emergency!
The Constitution is still there, no one is using it. They aren't even reading it. Where are the People? City council meetings? Nominations for office? Service? etc.
Flood city council meetings. Transparency on police budgets. Get federal dollars out from biasing local policy. Each community become independent and autonomous again. And - GO!
And the beat goes on, and escalates to outright Nazi Stormfurher terrorism. It’s time to fight back with a promise: Anyone who engaged in this beastly behavior will be called to account. Anyone running for office that supports Trump or any of his fascist actions will be called to account. America! Wake up! This isn’t Nazi Germany under Hitler in the 1930’s. It’s here in your own country and frankly, nobody is safe any longer. Donald Trump cum Adolph Hitler is showing his true colors and it isn’t red, white and blue.gt
The media has completely abdicated their purpose. There are peaceful protests almost every weekend. There were 1,000 through 50501. How much was televised? In the past, protests were covered extensively. This administration doesn’t want it shown, so the media complies.
The cruelty of arresting legal people, peaceful protestors, congress people and candidates by beating, shooting gassing is shown briefly or not at all. The administration doesn’t want you to know!
Where are the police? They should be protecting the peaceful protesters, congressmen and women and immigrants from illegal force and apprehension.
THIS ⬇️
Philadelphia's superstar Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner lays out a brilliant playbook for arresting and prosecuting Donald Trump's fascist ICE agents and troops as the MAGA crackdowns spiral out of control.
This plan even undermines the presidential pardon...
"If what you have is a group of ICE agents or you even have the military coming into Philadelphia and they're committing crimes, they're committing assaults that are illegal, homicides that are illegal, they're kidnapping people, they're engaging in unlawful restraint which is a crime in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..." Krasner said.
"They're obstructing the administration of justice..." he continued. "If you have people coming in — military, ICE, whoever it is — acting beyond their legal authority they can be prosecuted, assuming they commit crimes, in state court."
"And they cannot be pardoned by the president which means that they get to tell a Philadelphia jury exactly why it is that they thought that they could invade this city and they get to bear the consequences whether they are handcuffs, a jury trial, or a jail sentence," he concluded.
This is exactly the kind of hardline approach we need from all of our Democratic leaders. Trump and his minions are breaking the law at every turn and it's time that we started holding them accountable. These masked ICE agents think that they're above the law as they work to build a MAGA dystopia. They're in for a rude awakening.
By prosecuting any lawbreakers on a state level, Democrats can circumvent the presidential pardon which has been irreparably corrupted by Trump. He demonstrated a willingness to abuse it for purely political purposes with his mass pardon of the January insurrectionists. Any plan for fighting back against these Republican criminals must factor in that reality.
Please read and restack
Great...But WHO will actually enforce these law....THAT IS ALWAYS THE KEY PROBLEM.
Blue states - at least
You’re kidding, right? Most law enforcement departments are siding with the fascists or in hiding.
No I’m not…I don’t mean to sound naive. If what the ICE goons are doing is illegal, and I believe it is, they need to be arrested on the spot, or at the very least, told to leave.
That would be like what ICE is doing when they arrest congressional representatives for trying to inspect federal sites- there is no authority for them to make those arrests and they are interfering with a federal branch of government.
That's what Pritzgar advised to do. Call police. Get them on record, get their identity and pursue charges. It will help. If police have the backing of the governor and the community
I’d like to say, in the nicest possible way, that I think you’re being naive and I have fully sympathy (and concern) for the very sinister situation that has been developing in the US since January. The MAGA WH is taking over government and the country in a vicious, fast-moving neofascist coup. If whoever might be left to stop this doesn’t, it’s all over. I pray I’m misreading everything I’ve been seeing.
Thank God someone understands this.
https://www.threads.com/@lcketchum/post/DO3yoFrkROb?xmt=AQF08bCjIykgM3rO8AjDAtlXIvzMLfthEglH-PL_ja0mjA&slof=1
The police signed up with ICE for the bonuses and zero accountability.
The rest are believers in Donny Dumpy Diaper
Whatever, but it’s important to realize that ICE is now functioning like a MAGA military hit squad .
Police? What accountability do they have to the People? Voters?
Did you vote for the police chief?
Were there police departments when this country was founded?
Did you vote for the sheriff?
Were there Sheriffs when this country was founded?
Think it through man, look it up.
I sent a message to Pritzker too.
Maybe they are the police?
The police, like all others obey or they are removed.🤷♀️
I’m concerned that when all is said & done, & ICE is dissolved, these (mostly) men, will not be able to control their worst impulses when returned to general society. Someone who’s been able to beat strangers into the ground, drag people out of their cars by their feet, & throw pregnant women against walls, with no accountability, will not be able to control themselves in a grocery store check out line, at the DMV, or an ER waiting room.
It's illegal for them to interfere with federal immigration enforcement. They are under orders not to help, but they can't block them.
What on earth are these goons thinking? To grab people without knowing who they are, physically assaulting journalists and candidates. They need to be reminded that they don’t have to follow unlawful orders.
The media needs to find them and ask pointed questions.
They don't have to follow illegal orders, that's true. But these people joined ICE specifically so they could enforce illegal orders
THIS RIGHT HERE 🢁 🢁 I am wondering what percentage of ICE agents were involved in Jan 6 "tour" and how many of them were pardoned by drumpf?
Good question. We now have armed, crazed, jan 6 pardoned criminals roving around and delighted with being employed again.
They want illegal orders. They want to “rough” up people. Apparently it doesn’t matter if the person is aged, they will still manhandle that person.
Americans look like a bunch of fools to the rest of the world. MAGA = MALS (Make America Look Stupid)
They are thinking no one is gonna stop their video game now.
They're being paid a heft salary and by some accounts also individual bonuses. They joined because they like this, or for the (very good) money, or both.
And of course, as somebody recently pointed out, there are a lot of armed radical right criminals pardoned jan 6 etc who might have taken up arms under ice’s ranks.
They are MAGA military police. Their job is to snuff out dissidence. Now they’re still being nice!
I heard someone ask an ICE agent if he was proud of the job he was doing, he yelled back he was proud, that he … “gets to destroy Democrats”.
She could have easily been seriously injured. This is outrageous.
lawsuitlawsuitlawsuit
I’m glad to see people mixing it up with ICE in Chicago‼️ it’s good that we have some candidates out there who can experience this kind of fascism firsthand. This is sure to reinforce their campaigns going into the midterms.
Arrest them! Pritzker should call in the National Guard!
Yes, how can this go on? Arrest and jail ICE! They are untrained and bullies. Does Chicago have to accept thus crap!
Yeah WTF Pritzker, you talk the talk so how are you allowing this to happen in your state? Do Something!!
May as well start the civil war as the courts do not seem to help here.
This is not the America I grew up in!! This is totally disrespectful to the constitution and our forefathers!! Shame on ICE and choosing to treat fellow citizens or immigrants so horribly!! Is this how Jesus would want us to behave towards each other?
Please ask black, Hispanic, native American and Arab people if this is the America they grew up in. Because it is. We're going backwards to a time when this was acceptable behavior. But it's all happened before
60s Civil Rights marches.
Is it wrong of me to assume these MAGA gangs are salivating at the thought of an upcoming confrontation, likely to occur sooner rather than later, where both sides are armed with sprays, guns, etc? Is this their goal handed down from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?
Would not surprise me in the least.
This shit has to stop. Someone please make it stop. Let's hope the planned 250th birthday celebration extravaganza is a major clusterfuck. If we last that long.
I feel like we are heading to total authoritarian dictatorship!
Satan Trump & his followers are leading the way, back to Hitler time and his terror👹
We're already there
Yes! We are!
In my opinion the US has been experiencing since jan a fast-moving, vicious neofascist takeover, i.e. coup and it is in its last stages. ICE is the MAGA WH military force.
Don't forget...they murdered another man here last week and lied about being "dragged by the car". They took the time to handcuff him as he bled out.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigrant-shot-dead-chicago-ice-villegas-gonzalez-family-answers-rcna231952
We are gonna have to shut down the economy yall.
General strike
Wait a minute!! Trump said he would deport dangerous criminnal undocumented immigrants. He didn't say he would deport people on VISA's and beat up on 80 year old US Citizens to try to equal Obama's legitimate deportations. Where is the Congress? Where is the Supreme Court? Oh Right! The Supreme Court made him a king. How do we get our Constitution back?
He’s ruling by decree and executive order. This is not what the Constitution called for. We need three separate but equal parts of our government for proper checks and balances. We should be taking names, making lists, targeting anyone who supports this fascistic behavior, particularly Members of Congress who are running for office in 2026. Call them out. Shame them. Open the eyes of every American to what is happening and what it means to everyone.
If there is an election!
Yes, and to impress upon everyone who will listen that the MAGA WH has declared war on the people of the US, the constitution, and democracy. You’re in the end stages of a neofascist coup and what’s coming will be far worse than now. This is an emergency!
The Constitution is still there, no one is using it. They aren't even reading it. Where are the People? City council meetings? Nominations for office? Service? etc.
Flood city council meetings. Transparency on police budgets. Get federal dollars out from biasing local policy. Each community become independent and autonomous again. And - GO!
Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus had it right when he used the term “gangster fascism"
Check the history of the founding of the SS.
These thugs could be anybody but there are several groups known to want to wage war, even civil war.
KKK, Proud Boys, J6ers, Neo Nazis, or other militia groups.
We know Trump knows them as patriots
Neofascist thugs
And the beat goes on, and escalates to outright Nazi Stormfurher terrorism. It’s time to fight back with a promise: Anyone who engaged in this beastly behavior will be called to account. Anyone running for office that supports Trump or any of his fascist actions will be called to account. America! Wake up! This isn’t Nazi Germany under Hitler in the 1930’s. It’s here in your own country and frankly, nobody is safe any longer. Donald Trump cum Adolph Hitler is showing his true colors and it isn’t red, white and blue.gt
Not covered on the media
The media has completely abdicated their purpose. There are peaceful protests almost every weekend. There were 1,000 through 50501. How much was televised? In the past, protests were covered extensively. This administration doesn’t want it shown, so the media complies.
The cruelty of arresting legal people, peaceful protestors, congress people and candidates by beating, shooting gassing is shown briefly or not at all. The administration doesn’t want you to know!
They didn't abdicate, they were bought out.
How Trustworthy Is the Mainstream Media: Facts and Figures.
https://jamiea811023.substack.com/p/how-trustworthy-is-the-mainstream