Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace | Will Bunch
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New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.

Roughly what happened:

  • A few days ago, Bovino promised something big
  • ICE was being brutal, but not stopping the protests or the hunger strike inside the concentration camps
  • Bovino sent in the Proud Boys, but the protesters ran them off
  • Gov. Sherrill sent in the state police, who attacked the protesters, including those in “free speech zones”
  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    All in all, it’s the federal government’s job to police itself. So governors aren’t really supposed to be empowered to stop things like this. Anything they do try can reasonable be deflacted as outside their authority or retalitory.
    That’s just the way the system is designed. It expected congress and the supreme court to keep the executive branch under control. That is where the failure is.