• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    And how many non-citizens have they murdered so far? Everyone has a right not to be killed, not just citizens.

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    The public at large is getting exposed to what many of us already knew, law enforcement is fundamentally dishonest, and courts are rigged in their favor.

    People don’t realize the extent, it’s not here and there, it’s the norm, and anyone bucking the norm is drummed out of the system, or conveniently commits suicide, whether it’s two to the back of the head suicide or what.

    It’s not just ice, although they’ve been given extraordinarily overt support by the feds, to make precedents they can use later in unrest over them stealing elections and otherwise putting down protests, that is what this is all about to the feds.

    They want to set precedents on immigration because it’s the issue they have the most support on.

    But this blatant lying we’ve seen from the feds, this is standard procedure for all LE, it’s just more overt and blatant than usual. Hiding evidence, or mischaracterizing it is hardly new either.

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      When I was much younger, I had a couple of minor encounters with the police where they flat-out lied. I also had friends who had to leave town because of police death threats. Learning that in early life was a good education in just how fucked the system is.

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        People with no direct experience naturally give authorities the benefit of the doubt, all authorities, not just police. I find myself doing it the longer I go without direct experience, but I know better and have to correct myself. Not saying they are all bad or they will all lie to screw you, but for those they do want to screw lying is standard procedure, there’s a reason every defense lawyer says to say nothing in questioning.

        Anything you say, even if not incriminating, will be after they lie about it, say you confessed or whatever. You have to ask for a lawyer and decline to answer questions without one, but then if you answer any other question, be it your name, anything, say anything, they can say you then waived your asserted 5th amendment right you invoked. The system is rigged in their favor, because The Fear they stoked in the crime waves from the late 70s through the 1990s.

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    In a statement Friday, DHS said the driver who was killed “intentionally ran over a Homeland Security Investigation special agent,” resulting in another agent firing “defensive shots to protect himself, his fellow agents, and the general public.”

    HSI officers were assisting South Padre Island police by redirecting traffic through a busy intersection after a vehicle accident with several injuries.

    A blue, four-door Ford with a driver and passenger approached the officers, who ordered the driver to stop. The report does not say why. Initially, the driver didn’t respond to commands but did eventually come to a stop, according to the report.

    Agents then surrounded the vehicle, telling those inside to get out, but the driver “accelerated forward” and struck an HSI special agent “who wound up on the hood of the vehicle,” the report said. An HSI supervisory special agent standing by the side of the car then fired his weapon multiple times through the open driver’s side window, and the vehicle stopped.

    Same story, different murder. To be sure, at least one of the many officers present at the incident had their body cam turned on, right? Right?