Best and simplest answer is that technically they’re still considered law enforcement. Nearly everything they’re doing is constitutionally illegal, but only the courts have the right to determine that.

If we start threatening police with guns, every single nook and cranny of our legal system justifies the police murdering us. Maybe some cops would get paid leave for a few weeks, or possibly even lose their badges, but that’s about it.

And then they’ll use it to justify an even more inflated budget for ICE, and everything will get exponentially worse.

There is a pretty famous Mitch Hedburg bit about that same exact thing. People used to quote his jokes a lot online. I wonder if, instead of a poem, that was what you read.

but also the shadows of the cars and the fact that you couldn’t park those cars on soft dirt without disrupting the grass or sinking into the ground a little bit, plus the fact that usually grass next to water doesn’t look like that unless it’s on a golf course

Crunchy peanut butter shouldn’t exist. It’s lazy, unfinished peanut butter. At the very least, it should cost less. Why are we paying the same price for a job half finished?