To expand, you basically need to prove that the cop was knowingly acting outside of his legal duties in a way that has been proven and established in the past. Speaking as a layperson, basically if the officer “feared for their life”, then you have to determine beyond a reasonable doubt that a reasonable officer in that situation should not have feared for their life.
The police get a lot of reasonable doubt when it comes to being scared.
Blind Squirrel finds nut?
Kid allegedly denied medication after being returned to ICE detention after having been hospitalized for getting extremely sick in detention.
Will be following this with great interest!
So, Minnesotans found an expressive way of protesting against ICE.
I would not be surprised if he sues as he is now asking for help from the Irish Government.
LegalEagle on the “This job sucks” federal attorney from last week:
(tl;dw: Not only does it add to evidence of the misconduct of the feds…she breached professional ethics)
At the direction of DOJ, or in stating ‘this job sucks’? Just for clarity for those that tl;dw’d.
ICE made sure to have the right kind of guy doing security clearances for them
Sort of both? She shouldn’t have complained to the court about her client (the US gov’t), but she also should have resigned when it became clear that her client was willfully disregarding court orders.
Lawyers can be sanctioned for knowingly facilitating illegal behavior by their clients. The claim is that when she realized DHS/ICE wasn’t going to promptly comply with court orders, she was ethically obliged to resign. She didn’t.
Her meltdown, including throwing DHS/ICE under the bus and disclosing their willful noncompliance, was also apparently breach of professionalism.
Devin actually did (IMO) a decent job balancing that she’s a victim of the meltdown of the feds’ operations with the fact that she’s not blameless in the matter – she signed on after our Glorious Leader’s re-ascension, she volunteered to transfer into that role, and she chose to continue working for the feds when it became clear that DHS/ICE had no intention of following court orders.
I think it’s mentioned that the feds now have 9 lawyers in Minnesota, when they used to have about 60. If you want to commit a federal crime, it’s the perfect time to do so in Minnesota, because they have no capacity to prosecute.
The most sort-of-funny part to me was the revelation that the person responsible for locking up people who shouldn’t have been locked up and not releasing them when the court orders them to was David Easterfield, the pastor who was being protested at the the church where Don Lemon was. What a f*cked up country.
It seems like a difficult ethical situation for the lawyer in this case, who seemed to have been trying her best to actually make things better. I’m paraphrasing from memory, but she basically said,
I get it; I’m not white myself, and I could be at risk too. I’m trying to make the govermnet follow the law, I’m sending them emails with all-caps subjects asking for updates, etc. etc. and they won’t respond to me.
She was obviously being unprofessional by dishing about the government, but if she resigns… the government just finds another, shittier lawyer to go in their place.
I view CBS as Breitbart wearing a neoliberal mask.
Absolute garbage. I could trust them again within my lifetime, but they’ll have to give me a reason to.
ICE is leaving Minnesota, so mission accomplished I guess.
I assume this also has something to do with the budget standoff. Polymarket is putting a DHS shutdown at 95% right now.
I saw quite a lot of HS kids protesting on my way to work today. And a fairly good percentage of cars seemed to be honking in support. Each time a car would honk, the protesters would cheer, and the cheer was loud enough to be uncomfortable to my ears.
will believe when it is confirmed they are out.
“over 4000 arrests” claimed. had over 3000 agents on the ground for 10 weeks. insanely inefficient unless the goal was…to f things up for a while to own the libz.
keep in mind, that’s arrests not undocumented people detained. and MN has about 1% of the nation’s undocumented people. a pockmark on all these a-holes and their enablers