• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    stretched into Memphis, Tennessee, where some of the officers are alleged to have accepted bribes in exchange for providing protection to undercover FBI agents posing as members of a Mexican drug cartel.

    So, the administration is using the threats of Mexican Drug Cartels to justify ferocious ICE raids in Memphis, rounding up innocent people for deportation, while the whole time, the cops of Memphis were actually protecting those same Mexican Drug Cartels (they thought)?

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      I’ve been telling people that multiple police precincts across the country have been busted selling and distributing fentanyl the last few years and people think I’m a kook. One of them even reached National news.