If Minnesota officials try to prosecute the federal agents who recently killed two people in Minneapolis, they’ll face steep obstacles from a century-old Supreme Court precedent — one that helped sink a similar case just a few years ago.
Minnesota officials have not explicitly said they will bring criminal charges against ICE and Border Patrol agents responsible for the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, but Mary Moriarty, the top local prosecutor in Minneapolis, has opened homicide investigations into both shootings. And Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has strongly pushed back on claims that federal agents cannot be prosecuted.
“There is no exemption for federal officers. Nobody gets to commit a crime in Minnesota and be unaccountable for it,” Ellison said on cable news Tuesday night.
But state prosecutors would face significant hurdles.
The 2017 shooting of Bijan Ghaisar by two U.S. Park Police officers in a Northern Virginia neighborhood — and the protracted legal battles that followed — may be the best preview of what Minnesota officials can expect if they pursue criminal charges against federal immigration agents. And the same legal theory that stymied Virginia’s prosecution may also block Minnesota’s.
The Supreme Court will guarantee the fight will fail. So, there are few options. However, there are still options……
Oh no, not a hill. Anything but that.
Guys, you know that last 100,000 years of struggle and hardship and sorrow we’ve endured as a species to get to the point that we don’t literally die horribly in our first decade of life? It’s nothing compared to THIS hill, this one may be too steep.
Maybe we should just prepare ourselves for letting the forces of chaos have this one, I mean… it’s a HILL, how do you even do that?
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I dunno guys, fighting fascism sounds like a real pain. Can’t we just let them kill a few innocent people, you know, as a treat?
Fahey said. “Really the only time, at least in my interpretation, where it would not apply would be a situation where there’s an agent that just goes off on a lark and does something like robs a liquor store or something that just has nothing to do with what they’re supposed to be doing.”
Something like murdering an innocent man who they should never have laid hands on in the first place? His legal, official job was not to abuse protesters or assault people trying to dicuss events.
“Since executing people in the street is what they were hired to do, they get a pass.”
THEN GO THE FUCK UP THAT HILL!!!
The coalition founded to work on it: https://federaloverreach.org/
So just to be clear, I’m starting to get mighty fucking livid that the ICEatzgruppen and friends go to court, get a court order, they say “lol no fuck you”, flagrantly and pointedly violate said order repeatedly, and then nothing happens. In contrast, everyone who’s the “good guys” seems to be hell-bent on following the rules into an early fucking grave.
Hey now, Chuck Schumer and our “opposition party” have had some VERY stern words and letters about all of this. Very stern. Frowns even.
We all do right now.
Every fucking moment of existing is an “uphill battle” so if you’re going to write a headline and publicise a story about this one thing, it’s almost as if you’re trying to soften the blow you already know is coming that may rile people up even more. Curious that.
