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Legal humor. Seriously. By Kevin Underhill. Also available at @[email protected] and @loweringthebar.bsky.social
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Joined March 2009
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Yes. And he had a constitutional right to do both, you complete piece of shit.
Blanche: He was not protesting peacefully…. He was screaming in the face of ICE. He had a phone up right in ICE’s face. Is that protesting peacefully?
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"Turning to Bovino, the Court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition, either providing 'cute' responses to Plaintiffs’ counsel’s questions or outright lying.” U.S. District Judge Sarah Ellis in Chicago.
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
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Uncredible, irresponsible, and unamerican.
A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.
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This guy keeps unloading his clip on the man laying on the ground. There are many other agents around! WTF!!
You can watch this agent back up, shooting repeatedly into the man as he's dying.
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This is great joke
Nothing says "board of peace" like having two founding members not show up to the signing ceremony because they would be arrested at the airport for war crimes.
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This. Start arresting them and use the National Guard if you have to.
There is no absolute immunity for ICE agents who violate Minnesota law. The Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution does not erase state criminal law. https://t.co/koqd42olsM
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Important to call this shit what it is: ICE is a paramilitary organization carrying out a state-sponsored campaign of ethnic cleansing. They’ve now killed two people and seem to be escalating every day. Just so we’re clear.
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Put them to work clearing out the federal brownshirts. That’ll secure the environment.
Hennepin County "Sheriff Dawanna Witt has requested assistance from the Minnesota National Guard...Guard’s role is to work in support of local law enforcement and emergency responders, providing additional resources. Their presence is meant to help create a secure environment."
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The salient point now is not Trump's dementia, but the Republicans' cowardice They'd rather ruin America's reputation for decades than risk losing their jobs
It does appear as if even Trump understood that he made himself a major international buffoon in Davos. Nobody outside of the US understands how a character such as Trump can be US president.
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To be clear: an insurrectionist using a Confederate flag pole to attack police guarding the US Capitol is dubbed a “patriot” and can receive a presidential pardon while US citizens in Minnesota exercising their 1st amendment rights to protest and assemble get executed.
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“Boo hoo” They’re not just killing people, they’re taunting the public they’re terrorizing after they do it. https://t.co/OzvFt9dPXi
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"After the shooting, bystanders gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: 'Boo hoo.' "
BREAKING: Federal officers have shot another person in Minneapolis amid the immigration crackdown, Gov. Tim Walz says.
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for the love of God are there no Republican senators with the decency and guts to stand up and force Trump to back off? https://t.co/xAnEOFqrXO via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. The man, an I.C.U. nurse, was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said.
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BREAKING: The Minneapolis PD are now reporting that ICE has taken witnesses from the shooting today to the Whipple Federal building and ordered the local police to LEAVE the scene immediately. What the hell are they trying to cover up?
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“I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry!” “You just shot someone and you’re terrorizing us! Fuck you!”
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The number of people gleefully defending shooting a man on the ground with 4 or 5 guys on top of him kicking him and punching him in MN today is disgusting. I covered police shootings. No police dept. in America could do this and not have a comprehensive hearing/trial afterward.
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The same administration that venerates Kyle Rittenhouse, who showed up at a protest like this:
At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here. The officers attempted to
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VERY IMPORTANT: The man in the green jacket walks up to the melee, he reaches in, takes the gun from the man on the ground, and calmly walks away with the gun ICE found. This was BEFORE any shots were fired. Which means the man was UNARMED and MURDERED in the street by ICE.
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