Jon Lovett

The brutality is less on display, but I think in practice that means maybe the tactics have changed, but the strategy hasn't.

The strategy is still being driven by Stephen Miller out of the White House.

Trump's base still wants more deportations.

They like the harsh policy.

And I think like ultimately like the lesson is fascism will always come for all of us.

It's not just going to be the immigrants.

It's always going to come for American citizens.

And this is a good example of it, the story.

Yeah, there's one example in the story.

This woman, Sidney Laurie Reed, she was recording outside of a jail and she was accused of assaulting an officer.

She had caught it on video and her phone kept recording in her pocket after, so there's a lot of evidence.

Because of that, it was just clear as day that this ridiculous charge.

Nevertheless,

They went to three grand juries, three grand juries to bring a felony charge.

That didn't work, a felony assault charge.

Then they went back at her with a reduced charge of a misdemeanor, took that to trial, and she was acquitted.

Whether or not they believe they had any case, it is clear they were using the process to torture this person for the audacity of filming them as they were transferring people out of this jail.

And like, first of all, she pointed out that if she didn't have the video, she would 100% be in jail herself.

And because her phone was still recording, it has her kind of bravely kind of talking to the officer that grabbed her.

And what the officer said is something like, people can't mind their own business.