Deputy Attorney is talking about the video showing the nurse spitting and then attacking the federal vehicle...
I think President felt that he had to order DOJ to take this action...
I do have to state that this Minnesota nurse is no Gandhi or MLK...But, some people think this guy was a saint...I guess they think that spitting at a federal agent is no big deal...
In the end, I don’t think who he was or what he was like in general matters a great deal. I think what matters is that he was resisting violently, someone yelled “GUN GUN GUN!!” and Pretti rose up and reached behind him where that holster was. The agents who shot, and Pretti himself, apparently didn’t realize the other agent had already taken the gun, or that it went off in his hand. They saw Pretti reach, they heard the warning, they heard a shot, and they opened fire. It’s an unfortunate sequence of events, but I don’t think they reacted unreasonably.
It is a Biological assault.
The guy with the gun who was fighting with the cops?
A few things bother me about this -
Don’t you already have law enforcement procedures to the effect of, a legal shooting should be examined internally within a couple of weeks? Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights, negotiated contracts, codes of conduct/practice and all that. That’s as much to protect the officer and the force as it is to protect a person who may have been accidentally shot etc.
If so, why don’t ICE seem ever to have to follow anything similar without being dragged into compliance? If ICE is a professional law enforcement outfit it should be abiding by professional rules of conduct and engagement, and being a bit perturbed if the events at a scene suggest that the conduct was unbecoming.
You shouldn’t need POTUS to order DOJ to do something here, and you shouldn’t have other politicians coming up with defensive knee-jerk reactions.
You don’t have to think someone’s a saint to think the manner in which they were shot may have been out of line. Spitting at a federal agent is not a capital offence. Nor is (merely) body-blocking an ICE agent with both his hands raised up.
While it’s true that the Minnesota nurse has previous for going on protests where he might’ve deserved an arrest and a pepper spraying; in THIS case it isn’t clear that any of the attending ICE officers would’ve known that.
Bystander accounts, and their videos, suggest he was wrestled to the ground and pepper-sprayed simply because he body-blocked an ICE officer (while having both hands up). There are people who were present who describe the ICE agent’s behavior leading up to the body-block as more like something you’d expect from a street thug than from a law enforcement officer.
Of course the officers on scene have a completely different interpretation, but that’s why incidents like this should be investigated and the SENSIBLE position for politicians and conservatives to take is, in principle it’s a bad idea to obstruct law enforcement but equally, mistakes can be made in the heat of the moment and “let’s wait for the outcome of the investigation”.
When will Blondi open a civil rights investigation into the shooting of an unarmed, non-violent woman by the name of Ashlee Babbitt?
Turns out the two shooters were Border Patrol and not ICE and both guys are Hispanic (probably from Texas).