No.
Posted on 09/22/2021 8:23:17 AM PDT by RBW in PA
What does it take to hold federal police accountable for using excessive force? That question is once again being raised with cases being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And it’s coming to the Justices in the form of a petition from Kevin Byrd, a Texas mechanic who was almost shot to death by a federal officer in a dispute over a purely personal matter. Kevin is not fighting alone. The Institute for Justice (IJ) represents him in his U.S. Supreme Court appeal. And three groups of exceptional scholars and cross-philosophical public policy organizations are supporting him with friend-of-the-court briefs in which they urge the Justices to take up Kevin’s case.
A federal agent tried to shoot an innocent man
The FBIAS is a criminal organization and should be disbanded.
The real question is, Why isn’t Texas Prosecuting this Dangerous Criminal Thug for the ATTEMPTED MURDER HE COMMITTED ON CAMERA???
I normally do not bother to watch video links, but this one actually was worthwhile.
No.
PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO BEFORE POSTING. this federal officer is armed and dangerous.
Just remember, anyone who threatens a person with death or grave injury w/o justification is opening the way for the use of countervailing lethal force by the non-instigating/non-aggressing party.
Are you in jeopardy?
Is that Jeopardy unlawful?
Does the person (s) have the ability to inflict that unlawful(to a reasonable person) force and
Is that risk of that force being inflicted imminent?
If the answer to all of these questions is “Yes”, then you likely have the right to self defense.
Of course, in almost all states’ laws and statues, the demonstration of the right of justification of self defense is a burden on the person claiming it. But, also, in most non-blue states, once that justification of defense is proven, then the victim ( the person claiming self defense) is often provided with an affirmative or even absolute defense in both criminal and civil court.
Recall recent cases wherein a man fired on cops ( as it turned out) who shot into a crowd in WS, or this guy who is “no billed” by a TX grand J.
Life is risky.
I watched and maybe I missed it, but does anyone know the cop’s motivation? Was he the boyfriend of the injured woman?
This incident was brought up a week ago, I think. The issue was that the lower court made up, absolute immunity, completely out of whole cloth. The Appellate Judge acknowledged that the case is f*cked up and that the immunity granted was out of bounds but he couldn’t overrule it for some reason. He was appointed by President Trump.
I really hope SCOTUS, even though I don’t have much faith in them, quickly overturns the initial decision and squashes this sh*t completely.
The courts decision is insane.
On a side note, you’re 100% correct. The local jurisdiction or the Texas Rangers should be investigating and prosecuting this case.
1st) trying to smash the window
2nd) trying to clear a jam when he failed in murdering the plaintiff.
From another thread concerning this issue...
Patriots are reminded that the powers that the states have given to the feds to police the states are expressly constitutionally very limited.
Regarding the mechanic shot by feds in an alleged private dispute, unless the State of Texas had formally requested federal assistance on this issue (yeah, right), the misguided (imo) appeals court judges, along with a wrongly silent Congress, are all helping to violate the Constitution's Article IV, Section 4 (4.4) imo.
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
In fact, Justice Joseph Story had warned us that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had made 4.4 partly to help prevent the feds from dreaming up excuses to stick their big noses (my words) into the affairs of the sovereign states.
”§ 1819. It may not be amiss further to observe, (in the language of another commentator,) that every pretext for intermeddling with the domestic concerns of any state, under colour of protecting it against domestic violence, is taken away by that part of the provision, which renders an application from the legislature, or executive authority of the state endangered necessary to be made to the general government, before its interference can be at all proper [emphasis added]. On the other hand, this article becomes an immense acquisition of strength, and additional force to the aid of any state government, in case of an internal rebellion, or insurrection against its authority. The southern states, being more peculiarly open to danger from this quarter, ought (he adds) to be particularly tenacious of a constitution, from which they may derive such assistance in the most critical periods.” —Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, Article 4, Section 4.
Insights welcome.
The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big, alleged election-stealing, Democratic Party-pirated federal and state governments oppressing everybody under their boots...
Consider that all the states can effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing the following.
Patriots need to primary federal and state elected officials who don't send voters email ASAP that clearly promises to do the following.
Federal and state lawmakers need to promise in their emails to introduce resolutions no later than 100 days after start of new legislative sessions that proposes an amendment to the Constitution to the states, the amendment limited to repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Again, insights welcome.
Guilty. He had no right to confront that guy at all. If he were to have done that around here, he would have been killed, especially since his gun jammed. Reminds of the Federal guy down in Florida who pulled into a parking lot in a road rage incident and the dialysis patient killed him.
A DHS agent attempts murder off duty; another DHS agent, off duty, decides to self-assign an “undercover” op at the Justice for J6 rally, armed, presumably to shoot...whom? ; CP Lt Byrd commits murder at Jan 6 Rally, gets off and declares himself a hero. And gun control lunatics seem to see nothing wrong with worshipping government guns while hoping to leave everyone else at the mercy of psychos like these. Beam me up, Scotty.
# The real question is, Why isn’t Texas Prosecuting this Dangerous Criminal Thug for the ATTEMPTED MURDER HE COMMITTED ON CAMERA???
A valid question. The real answer is that the government can kill you any time they want to. They don’t even need an excuse.
His son was the drunk driver.
https://reason.com/2021/09/22/supreme-court-absolute-immunity-police-dhs-agent-ray-lamb-kevin-byrd/
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