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  1. The federal govt had access to that video within hours of the #shooting on Jan 14, the #Minneapolis police chief said. Yet prosecutors did not watch the footage, an official said, until nearly 3 weeks after they filed charges against the 2 men.

    “Bare #DueDiligence would have shown that the agents were lying,” Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said in a recent interview, shortly after he watched the video for the first time.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #Trump #law #immigration #DueProcess #UseOfForce

  2. “Accordingly, #dismissal with #prejudice will serve the interests of #justice,” wrote Rosen, who was nominated by #Trump to be #USattorney in #Minnesota.

    Lyons said the agents could face termination & criminal prosecution [I won’t hold my breath].

    The Jan 14 #shooting of Julio C. Sosa-Celis by an #ICE agent touched tense protests in #Minneapolis, where thousands of federal agents had been sent as part of the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown in the state.

    #law #UseOfForce #Sturmabteilung

  3. Rosen wrote that “*newly* discovered #evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations” that #federal officials made in a charging #document & in courtroom #testimony.

    “Accordingly, #dismissal with #prejudice will serve the interests of #justice,” wrote Rosen, who was nominated by #Trump to be #USattorney in #Minnesota.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung

  4. Lawyers of #Chicago woman shot by #FederalAgents say documents show how #DHS #lies about investigations

    #BorderPatrol commander Greg #Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an #immigration crackdown last year, acc/to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the #Trump admin of mishandling the investigation & spreading lies about the #shooting.

    #MarimarMartinez #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
    apnews.com/article/immigration

  5. Lawyers of #Chicago woman shot by #FederalAgents say documents show how #DHS #lies about investigations

    #BorderPatrol commander Greg #Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an #immigration crackdown last year, acc/to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the #Trump admin of mishandling the investigation & spreading lies about the #shooting.

    #MarimarMartinez #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
    apnews.com/article/immigration

  6. Lawyers of #Chicago woman shot by #FederalAgents say documents show how #DHS #lies about investigations

    #BorderPatrol commander Greg #Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an #immigration crackdown last year, acc/to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the #Trump admin of mishandling the investigation & spreading lies about the #shooting.

    #MarimarMartinez #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
    apnews.com/article/immigration

  7. Lawyers of #Chicago woman shot by #FederalAgents say documents show how #DHS #lies about investigations

    #BorderPatrol commander Greg #Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an #immigration crackdown last year, acc/to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the #Trump admin of mishandling the investigation & spreading lies about the #shooting.

    #MarimarMartinez #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
    apnews.com/article/immigration

  8. Lawyers of #Chicago woman shot by #FederalAgents say documents show how #DHS #lies about investigations

    #BorderPatrol commander Greg #Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an #immigration crackdown last year, acc/to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the #Trump admin of mishandling the investigation & spreading lies about the #shooting.

    #MarimarMartinez #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
    apnews.com/article/immigration

  9. The #Democrats’ statement comes as time is running short, with another partial #government #shutdown threatening to begin Saturday. Among the Democrats’ demands are a requirement for #judicial #warrants, better identification of #DHS “officers”, new #UseOfForce standards & a stop to #RacialProfiling. They say such changes are necessary after 2 protesters were fatally shot by federal agents in #Minneapolis last month.

    #law #DueProcess #ICE #CBP #CivilRights #Trump #tyranny

  10. Fleming represents the two men — a Venezuelan man & a Mexican man both in the country illegally — in the ongoing litigation that claims the #FederalGovernment continues to violate the 2022 Castañon Nava settlement agreement, which limits #ICE's ability to #arrest people without #warrants or #ProbableCause.

    #Trump #law #immigration #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #CivilRights #DueProcess #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #CBP #Sturmabteilung #USpol

  11. The #Trump admin promptly sued #Illinois, saying the #law violated the #Constitution’s #SupremacyClause, which generally prohibits #states from enacting measures at odds with #FederalLaw. Whether to allow lawsuits against #federal agents for violating the federal #Constitution, the admin’s complaint said, “is a policy choice for Congress.” [ridiculous]

    Professor Amar said aspects of the IL #StateLaW might be problematic, but that its core idea is sound.

    #UseOfForce #StatesRights #CivilRights

  12. His central point for present purposes was that #state #legislatures can authorize lawsuits against #federal officials for violating the #Constitution. If that is right, such #StateLaws would close an odd gap in #FederalLaw that—broadly speaking—allows such suits against state & local officials, like police officers, but not against #federal ones, like #ICE agents.

    #Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #UseOfForce #Constitution #StatesRights #CivilRights #authoritarianism #autocracy #ICE #CBP

  13. The admin’s operations, they said, flout “our nation’s deepest moral commitments” & “values of human dignity.”

    The group includes #RomanCatholic Cardinal Archbishop Robert McElroy; #Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde; Rabbi Abbi Sharofsky of the #Jewish Community Relations Council; & #Zoroastrian Head Priest Berham Panthaki, among others.

    #law #Trump #authoritarianism #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism

  14. #GeraldoLunasCampos, a 55-year-old Cuban man who was detained at #CampEastMontana in #ElPaso, #Texas died during an interaction with guards after being placed into solitary confinement, according to the government [so grain of salt]. A fellow detainee who said he witnessed the incident claimed Lunas Campos had been asking for his medication.

    #Trump #law #immigration #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #ICE #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

  15. The #Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case “violence” in #Minnesota escalates, officials said, characterizing the move as “prudent planning.” It is not clear whether any of them will be sent to the state, the officials said, speaking like some others on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive #military planning.

    #Trump #law #Congress #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #autocracy

  16. A #homicide ruling would almost certainly draw attention to #CampEastMontana, a colossal makeshift tent “encampment” [#ConcentrationCamp] on the #Mexico border where immigrants have reported substandard conditions & physical #abuse, & #ICE’s own inspectors have cited dozens of violations of federal #detention standards.

    #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #tyranny #MafiaState #CBP

  17. Similar #BorderPatrol teams have been previously deployed to various “civil unrest” incidents, including Portland in 2020.

    To be clear, this #protest has been 100% #peaceful on the side of the protesters. Only the #federal “agents” have used force.

    #ReneeNicoleGood #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Minnesota #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #RESIST

  18. #BorderPatrol agents seen at a #protest near #Minneapolis, #Minnesota, appear to be a mix of the agency’s special response team and its Border Patrol Tactical Unit, also known as #BORTAC.

    BORTAC agents are *generally* “trained” in crowd control & crowd dispersion, as well as other tactics to protect property. #PepperSpray & #TearGas canisters are among tools agents have used for crowd control.

    #ReneeNicoleGood #Trump #law #murder #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality

  19. A standoff between #protesters & #federal agents at the parking lot entrance of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal building is underway—with agents deploying a #gas-like substance, a CNN team on scene experienced.

    In an attempt to move protesters, agents deployed the substance, which CNN’s Ryan Young was on the receiving end of.

    As smoke filled the air, protesters could be heard coughing & gasping for breath, in video.

    #Trump #law #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality

  20. Ellis held an all-day hearing Wednesday in her courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown #Chicago where she heard from members of the #clergy, #protesters & Chicago #residents that they had been terrified by the aggressive actions of federal agents carrying out what the #Trump admin calls “Operation Midway Blitz.”

    #law #immigration #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #ICE #CBP #Gestapo

  21. “The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters & attacked by agitators,” Ellis said Thursday before announcing her ruling. “That simply is untrue. And the government’s own evidence in this case belies that assertion.”

    #Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #ICE #CBP #Gestapo

  22. US District Court Judge Sara Ellis said she will issue a sweeping injunction limiting the #UseOfForce by federal #immigration agents in the #Chicago area after she found a litany of violations were committed in recent weeks.

    Ellis on Thursday painstakingly detailed instances across the Chicago area in which #BorderPatrol agents used force against residents in violation of her #TRO.

    #law #PoliceBrutality #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #FreeSpeech #TrumpLies #Trump
    news.wttw.com/2025/11/06/feder

  23. 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

  24. This is brilliant. Read all of it, right to the end.

    "We need a calm and measured assessment of policing after the riots."

    - by Donncha O'Connell, Professor of Law, University of Galway, writing the The Journal.

    thejournal.ie/readme/policing-

    #AnGardaSíochána #Policing #Accountability #Oversight #FRT #FacialRecognition #GDPR #Privacy #AI #UseOfForce #DublinRiots #MastoDaoine