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Philadelphia's Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents

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Next headline, presumably: "Federal Agents Prepared To Arrest Philadelphia Prosecutor"

(This is black humor; it is never a good thing when different law enforcement factions within a country start openly fighting each other. Perhaps the next stage looks like Catalonia.)

> He's talking about deploying 150 federal law enforcement [officers] to Chicago. The police force in Chicago is over 12,000 people. He's talking about deploying maybe the equivalent of 1% of their ordinary active police force. This is fluff. This is politics. This has nothing to do with actual law enforcement.

How many were deployed to Portland though? It doesn’t take much...

The crucial difference is that Portland police haven't been ordered to prevent unlawful activity by feds.

So, Philly's police are going to ride escort for the rioters?

no. instead the prosecutor will fall off his high horse and see he only has power to harrass regular citizens, which he'll go back to doing. the police unions are directly asking for these fed gestapo to come and bring them outlawed weapons. this da is an idiot if he thinks the cops will arrest the guys they are on same team with. the da is not on that team. cops don't care what he wants or thinks or orders.

This DA isn't reliant on the Philly police department for enforcement - he's in one of the few states where DAs have their own law enforcement officers on staff[1].

The "D.A. detectives" referenced in the article are key to his stance, as they're employees directly under his control that are recognized by the state as equivalent to and having the same authority as a normal police officer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_detective

In Ohio we have an antique provision for the county prosecutor to employ their own investigators. They're not quite the same thing PA has, though. See Section 309.07 of the Ohio Revised Code here: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/309.07v1

the detectives referenced in the article are just a loud da posturing. it's the special operations division, and all they can do is launch a probe -not enforce anything, or arrest anyone.

just because you have a secretary employed by you doesn't mean she's allowed to rewire your electric because you tell her. if the detectives try to actually arrest police or feds, they themselves would be arrested. by the police and the feds.

this da is simply on a power grab, just like trump, while accusing trump of a power grab. 2 monkeys throwing poop at each other in a war about how different they are.

At that point, it's state violence against state violence and what practically happens depends on who brings a bigger gun.

... but the spectacle of CBP officers (and hired mercenaries) and Philadelphia D.A. officers shooting it out might clue some people into precisely how off-the-rails this federal administration has become.

The more time cops spend fighting other cops the less time they have to harass the rest of us. For the same reason it is beneficial to keep the government split between political factions.

Read 'time cops' and chuckled.

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