ICE

[Kyuu]

NYT released a great video analyzing the videos
Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

Correct headline would be something along the lines of:

Videos Show Trump Administration is Lying about ICE Shooting in Minneapolis; ICE Murdered Innocent Woman

 

[Kyuu]

The internet does not have a great record at "doxxing the fuckers". The last thing we need is a mob deciding they're reddit detective geniuses and beating the shit out of some utterly innocent person because someone decided they had the same backpack as the ICE thug.

Yes, there are already people sharing AI "unmasking" of the ICE officer that is, as anyone might have guessed, giving completely spurious results.

Regardless of how justifiably angry we are about what transpired, let's not become the baddies here, please.

 

[Kyuu]

FFS, as often happens with journalists they are giving far too much credence to an obviously bullshit position in order to offer the appearance of "balance".

Even if we give the officer a huge, huge benefit of the doubt and assume he did in fact fear for his life in that moment, that doesn't make the action of killing that woman in any way, shape, or fashion reasonable. How was shooting her going to prevent him getting run over? Her death was quite obviously not going to make the car come to a sudden, immediate, stop, and as we can see it didn't. It just resulted in the car being out of control, putting others in the vicinity at risk.

 

[Kyuu]

Maybe I'm just a legal ignoramus, but how the hell does that make sense? Federal officials double pinky sweared they won't fuck with the evidence, so let's just eliminate any requirement that they not?

 

[Kyuu]

Fifth circuit, what a surprise that they would ignore the plain meaning of a law to support cruelty.

 

[Kyuu]

I forget how many pages back the original story was but 18 year old who'd been charged with transporting 50lbs of meth and then led ice on a dramatic chase through the Hennipin county courthouse has been ordered released from ICE custody. Why? Because once again ICE didn't have a warrant and their reasoning for detention as presented didn't apply.
https://www.startribune.com/judge-r...nt-center-rejects-federal-arguments/601583393

TIL: Requiring a valid warrant to arrest someone apparently makes one an "activist judge".

 

[Kyuu]

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