” But we should at least give them a chance under rule of law and evidence to state their case.)”
Especially considering they have denied due process to those they arrested. Right?
Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual person from it.
I suspect that we can’t take any of the partisan accounts presented so far (and all of them are partisan) to conclude anything has actually been denied. The news that we get translates events that may have taken hours or days and involved many people and competing concerns and parses them down to a teaser of ten to twenty words. That teaser is necessarily tainted by the need to seem explosive and to grab attention from the competition. This is why we have a deliberative and adversarial justice system. I’m prepared to wait for that system to run its course.