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Video here: https://www.wsj.com/video/watch-ice-...ld_videos_pos2
The ACLU has released the video of Mahmoud Khalil's unlawful arrest, taken by his 8-months pregnant wife. Things to notice:
- The officers are in plain clothes.
- One officer keeps saying "stop resisting" when Mahmoud is clearly not resisting.
- They are driving unmarked cars.
- The officers do not say the charge for the arrest (and there still have not been any charges).
- They entered a private building, and the university still has not said whether they gave the university a warrant first, as the law requires.
- The officers refused to identify themselves.
- The officers refuse to speak to Mahmoud's lawyer.
- One officer gives her an address where they are taking her husband, but fails to mention that they will be putting him onto a plane to Louisiana as quickly as possible to keep him out of reach of his wife and his lawyers.
- The officers refused to identify what agency they were with.
- The officer's kept telling Mahmoud's wife "to get on the sidewalk," and implied they would answer her questions in a minute.
- They then drove off without speaking to her.
This is what we have historically called "secret police." The general definition of secret police is "Police established by national governments to maintain political and social control."
Some examples from history would be the Nazi Gestapo, the Russian KGB, and the East German Stasi.
If you're not secret police, you can wear a uniform. You can identify yourself when asked. You can speak to citizens about what is happening. You can give a clear reason for an arrest. You can speak to lawyers. You can show warrants to organizations and individuals.
If you roll up and disappear people, you're secret police.
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- The officers are in plain clothes.
- One officer keeps saying "stop resisting" when Mahmoud is clearly not resisting.
- They are driving unmarked cars.
- The officers do not say the charge for the arrest (and there still have not been any charges).
- They entered a private building, and the university still has not said whether they gave the university a warrant first, as the law requires.
- The officers refused to identify themselves.
- The officers refuse to speak to Mahmoud's lawyer.
- One officer gives her an address where they are taking her husband, but fails to mention that they will be putting him onto a plane to Louisiana as quickly as possible to keep him out of reach of his wife and his lawyers.
- The officers refused to identify what agency they were with.
- The officer's kept telling Mahmoud's wife "to get on the sidewalk," and implied they would answer her questions in a minute.
- They then drove off without speaking to her.
This is what we have historically called "secret police." The general definition of secret police is "Police established by national governments to maintain political and social control."
Some examples from history would be the Nazi Gestapo, the Russian KGB, and the East German Stasi.
If you're not secret police, you can wear a uniform. You can identify yourself when asked. You can speak to citizens about what is happening. You can give a clear reason for an arrest. You can speak to lawyers. You can show warrants to organizations and individuals.
If you roll up and disappear people, you're secret police.
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