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  1. #Hegseth laughed & dismissed her question.

    After the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in September, #Trump & his top advisers said they were going to designate certain left-wing groups as “domestic terrorists.”

    “As a former #CIA officer, that pricked my ears up,” #ElissaSlotkin said.

    Slotkin, speaking at the Brookings Institution in the fall, suggested that Trump could use #LethalForce against his domestic enemies or target them with #criminal “investigations”.

    #law

  2. #Hegseth laughed & dismissed her question.

    After the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in September, #Trump & his top advisers said they were going to designate certain left-wing groups as “domestic terrorists.”

    “As a former #CIA officer, that pricked my ears up,” #ElissaSlotkin said.

    Slotkin, speaking at the Brookings Institution in the fall, suggested that Trump could use #LethalForce against his domestic enemies or target them with #criminal “investigations”.

    #law

  3. #Hegseth laughed & dismissed her question.

    After the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in September, #Trump & his top advisers said they were going to designate certain left-wing groups as “domestic terrorists.”

    “As a former #CIA officer, that pricked my ears up,” #ElissaSlotkin said.

    Slotkin, speaking at the Brookings Institution in the fall, suggested that Trump could use #LethalForce against his domestic enemies or target them with #criminal “investigations”.

    #law

  4. #Hegseth laughed & dismissed her question.

    After the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in September, #Trump & his top advisers said they were going to designate certain left-wing groups as “domestic terrorists.”

    “As a former #CIA officer, that pricked my ears up,” #ElissaSlotkin said.

    Slotkin, speaking at the Brookings Institution in the fall, suggested that Trump could use #LethalForce against his domestic enemies or target them with #criminal “investigations”.

    #law

  5. Ongoing, and very worrying, trend in Australia.

    Increasingly authorities and governments are dropping the requirements and qualifications needed for its enforcement staff to carry lethal weapons.

    Shorter training in Victoria, decreasing literacy and numeracy levels in SA, and arming staff outside usual police ranks in the NT.

    We have seen the current ‘highly trained’ police misuse their lethal powers. Dropping the standards even further isn’t going to provide better outcomes.

    #auspol #policing #policestate #policemisconduct #lethalforce #abuseofpower #sapol #ntpol #vicpol #police

    abc.net.au/news/2025-06-20/nt-

  6. #Biden was plotting to assassinate himself, acc/to the logic used by #Trump & #MAGA #Republicans.

    The #DOJ policy statement on when officers can use #LethalForce —misrepresented by Trump & his supporters as proof of an assassination plot at #MarALago —was also in the paperwork for the consensual search the #FBI conducted of #POTUS Biden’s Wilmington home, looking for #ClassifiedDocuments.

    #law #gaslighting #extremism #incitement #StochasticTerrorism #NationalSecurity #VoteBlue #BidrnHarris2024

  7. Human rights activists in Chile say they are disturbed by a new law that allows police to use lethal force under the presumption of innocence.Critics say tha...
    "Trigger happy law": New police powers stir controversy in Chile
  8. CW: CW RCMP killed man in mental health crisis

    The #parents of a #RedDeer man who was #FatallyShot by #police this week say there was no reason for #RCMP to have used #LethalForce against their son.
    “I wish we had never called the police,” a tearful Jane Deon told the Advocate, a day after her 33-year-old son, Derek Deon, was shot three times by an officer while in his downstairs bedroom.

    saanichnews.com/news/i-wish-we

    #Alberta #Canada #DefundRCMP #DefundthePolice #PoliceReform #MentalHealthcareReform