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if I were in command of a city police force and believed that a private paramilitary company was doing crimes in my jurisdiction, I'd simply tell my cops to take the day off and nonviolently hand myself over to the corpos to slap me in cuffs. once Donald Trump realizes how racist it looks, he'll surely have no choice but to change his heart.
you know that the mayor doesn't actually control the cops right
even the chief of police doesn't
it's like saying that Obama was president so there should've been no lynchings in sundown-flyoversville during that span of time
also Obama bad and if he was any good they wouldn't have let him in in the first place
Technically, yeah, but a mayor can hold considerable influence over their city's police departments. I myself have been in situations where a mayor has made a police force do or not do something in partucular.
whatever they did was probably far smaller than eliminating an entire governmental organization that the literal entire police force voted for
they probably gasp actually enforced the law for once in their lives and gave a single one of the 40%ers a slap on the wrist for bodyslamming random passersby or something
Of course, I'm not saying the mayor will be able to utilize a local department to go to war with the feds or something, like they're his personal army. But mayors do have some control over their local police departments. It's not totally divorced.