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This feels really weird to me:
protecting the community against ICE is of course a righteous cause, but to do it by basically acting like less murderous cops, inconveniencing a lot of innocent people is not the BEST way to do that.
Especially since many of the people who would be willing to volunteer for such a task will tend to be less willing to stop again once ICE hopefully goes away making the stops an unnecessary nuisance..
If it's a community action empowered by the community they'll probably willingly stop when the community stops supporting it. Should they become a nuisance then the community has learned how to handle that.
Cops don't lose their backing when the local community wants them out.
Chancellor palpatine had the state backing him. That was the point of the election and padme's quote of applaus or whatever.
When a few people lose the support of the community they're just a few people, isolated, and a lot less scary than ice while being susceptible to the same community response.
Pretty fucking apt quote, now that you mention it.