Steven Bartlett

And that gives them a kind of impunity and a kind of ability to behave badly.

And they seem to be accountable directly to the Homeland Security Department and to the president.

And we've already seen how this can affect the behavior of ICE.

So we saw during the protests and the arrests and the protests in Minnesota, we saw two people were killed.

And what was really horrifying to me wasn't just that they were killed.

It was how the administration reacted.

You know, it was Vance and Noem and several other people immediately said of the people who were killed, they were guilty.

So instead of saying, this is horrible, you know, that an American police force killed a – these were both U.S.

citizens.

I mean, there have been other people killed too, by the way, but these two were notable because they were U.S.

citizens and they weren't immigrants.

Instead of saying two people were killed, this is horrible, we need to have an investigation, this must not be allowed to happen again, the immediate instinct was to give them impunity, like –

We're not going to investigate this.

It's not a real problem.

The instinct was to put them above the law.

And when you have a military force, and as I said, especially one that's militarized and looks like – they're dressed like they're in Fallujah.

When you have a military force that's above the law, then it's really a paramilitary.

If you have a police force that can harm ordinary citizens and not pay any price for it and isn't accountable –

then you're not serving Americans.

You're serving the interests of the ruling party.