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Interference with a law enforcement investigation?

It's a crime.

What do you have against crime?

Nonviolent political action is often criminalized.

18 U.S.C. § 372 - Conspiring to impede or interfere with a federal officer

This refers to physical impediments. Spreading legal information is not an impediment, it is free speech. If all info could be interpreted as impediments to federal officers then phones, the internet, the human voice, etc would be illegal

> This refers to physical impediments. Spreading legal information is not an impediment, it is free speech.

Yes, but physical impediments are physical impediments. The protesters have been repeatedly seen to impede, or attempt to impede, ICE physically.

No, they are organizing legally, of course there will be bad actors, but blocking an agent out of bad faith is certainly less of a crime than a bad faith ICE agent killing someone for their assumptions

In this case conspiracy is using communication to coordinate illegal impediment.

Communicating to protest in a legal way is a civil right

In the fascist's mind, anything that isn't supporting Dear Leader's vision of "greatness" is a crime.