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  1. After Molina, 36, posted video of the encounter Monday, it racked up tens of thousands of views & reignited scrutiny over the aggressiveness of the #Trump admin’s crackdown on “illegal” #immigration. The #gun in the agent’s hand can be seen raised & held at the center of Molina’s open driver’s side window.

    “I don’t think I comprehended it in that moment, but looking back on it, it really felt like a #RenéeGood situation,” Molina told WaPo….

    #ICE #Sturmabteilung #law #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce

  2. “Through the *cooperation* of our federal partners we have obtained the hard drives of previously withheld evidence in the killings of #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti & the shooting of #JulioSosaCelis,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said. “We have also obtained some of the physical evidence that was previously withheld, including Renee Good’s car.”

    #Trump #law #immigration #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #UseOfForce #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState

  3. #Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained long withheld key evidence in their ongoing investigations into fatal #shootings of #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti during pitched protests against a federal #immigration enforcement crackdown in the state earlier this year & withheld evidence in the shooting of #JulioSosaCelis.

    #Trump #law #Constitution #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #murder #DueProcess #UseOfForce #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState
    apnews.com/article/immigration

  4. The brothers & attorney representing the family of #ReneeGood, a 37-yr-old #Minnesota woman who was #murdered when an #ICE agent shot into her vehicle, are also expected to speak at the event, which is organized by Democratic lawmakers — Sen #RichardBlumenthal (CT) & Rep #RobertGarcia (CA).

    #AlexPretti #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #authoritarianism #fascism #MafiaState #CBP #Sturmabteilung

  5. Conservative officials around the country made the same connection between the First & Second amendments.

    “Showing up at a protest is very American. Showing up with a weapon is very American,” state Rep. Jeremy Faison, who leads the GOP caucus in Tennessee, said on X.

    #Trump’s first-term VP, #MikePence, called for “full and transparent investigation of this officer involved shooting.”

    #enablers #complicit #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #law #murder #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP #Gestapo

  6. Bowman, meanwhile, repeatedly accused Khojasteh of trying to hijack the proceedings with his drumbeat of objections & accusations….

    “Stop it. Just stop it,” an exasperated Bowman told Khojasteh at one point. “You don’t need to give speeches.”

    The transcript of #Bovino’s #deposition was made part of the court record…in an ongoing lawsuit accusing… #CBP & #ICE of routinely violating a restraining order issued by US Dist Judge Sara Ellis limiting #UseOfForce against #protesters & #media.

    #law

  7. Last week, federal #immigration agents targeted #Evanston, #Illinois, a northern #Chicago suburb that is home to #Northwestern, in a sweep that included a raid of a #retirement community. On Oct 31, 3 US #citizens who were watching a woman's violent arrest were shoved into an agent's car & driven around for hours before they were released at an FBI field office without charges, acc/to a court filing in a federal case brought by journalists & protesters against agents' #UseOfForce.

    #law