Because I know another person saying something matters

 I posted this last night on the microblogging sites:

[I s]pent the afternoon and evening literally in a granite valley, but while I was gone, it seems my city’s police “kept the peace” by arresting a 17 year old who was attempting to keep her mother from being kidnapped by federal agents who refused to show any paperwork?

A couple blocks over from Eureka was my first home in Worcester. 

We brought two babies home from the hospital there.

I’ve pushed strollers across Eureka Street and carried groceries across it.

That our—are they “our”?—police would think the appropriate response to a grieving and rightly angry child is arrest maddeningly is not surprising, but it is sickening.

And if we have people being taken off the street by people refusing to identify themselves who are not wearing uniforms and who do not have papers showing they have authority to do so, the local police response should not be “they’re federal”

Anyone can claim anything now.