Vice-President JD Vance made no bones about the unnamed ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight in Minneapolis yesterday:
The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That’s a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity.
This presumably holds true for all ICE agents. In which case, it means Vance has given ICE a license to kill. ICE can engage in federal law enforcement action by any and all means necessary up to and including the use of lethal force. ICE, with the blessing the Trump Administration, gets to decide who lives and who dies in this country.
It would seem this extends to other federal agencies such as the U.S. Border Patrol whose agents shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon.
As for the situation in Minneapolis, Vance's declaration of immunity for ICE agents further complicates matter as the FBI is preventing state and local officials from investigating Good's murder all but ensuring that ICE will never be held answerable for their actions in criminal court. In which case, the only relief available to Good's family is to sue ICE in civil court.
As Billy Jack famously said, "When policemen break the law, then there isn't any law. Just a fight for survival."
When politicians tell policeman they can break the law then there is no democracy or freedom. With each passing day, we are devolving from democracy to dictatorship, from freedom to tyranny.
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