FreeDumb Loving GOP House Puppeticians (except Massey) Vote to Give ICE More Money Despite Lack of Public Support in Non-Representative Demockery

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From [HERE] Seven Democrats in the US House of Representatives voted with nearly all Republicans on Thursday to pass a Department of Homeland Security funding bill despite growing calls from across the country for Congress to rein in the Trump administration’s deadly immigration operations, which are led by DHS agents.

Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (NC), Laura Gillen (NY), Jared Golden (Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), and Tom Suozzi (NY) joined all Republicans but Rep. Thomas Massie (KY) for the 220-207 vote that sent the legislation to the Senate—where the GOP also has a majority, but it’s so narrow that most bills need some Democratic support to pass.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) notably refused to pressure members of his caucus to oppose the bill, even though voters clearly oppose federal operations featuring violence and lawlessness by agents with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) everywhere from California and Illinois, to Minnesota and Maine.

Jeffries and other Democratic leaders have faced growing public pressure to use a rapidly approaching deadline—if Congress doesn’t pass legislation by January 30, the federal government shuts down again—to freeze ICE funding. The bill that advanced out of the House on Thursday would give ICE $10 billion and CBP $18.3 billion.

“I just voted HELL NO to giving ICE a single penny,” declared Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), who’s part of the progressive Squad. “Congress should not be funding an agency that has terrorized our communities, kidnapped our neighbors, and killed people on the street with impunity. We must abolish ICE and end qualified immunity for ICE agents NOW.” [MORE]

ICE Race Soldiers Kidnap a 5 Year Old and 4 Other Non-White Children from Pre-School in Minnesota

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Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is taken into custody by federal immigration officers as he returns home from preschool on Tuesday in Columbia Heights, Minnesota.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota have detained at least four children from the same school district this month, including a 5-year-old boy, school officials in a Minneapolis suburb said Wednesday.

The events have inflamed tensions between residents and ICE officers, sparked by the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renée Good by an ICE officer this month. The Trump administration has sought to justify the presence of ICE personnel by saying that the officers are detaining immigrants convicted of violent crimes.

“Why detain a 5-year-old?” Zena Stenvik, the superintendent of the Columbia Heights Public Schools district, located just north of Minneapolis, said at a news conference. “You cannot tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal.” [MORE] and [MORE]

Copitalism: In Subzero Temperatures Thousands Rally Against Involuntary Rule Disguised as Immigration Enforcement in MN, a State Ranked 29th in the Number of Undocumented Persons

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Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport Friday, and thousands gathered in downtown Minneapolis despite Arctic temperatures to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown.

The protests are part of a broader movement against President Donald Trump’s increased immigration enforcement across the state, with labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy urging Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and even shops. [MORE]

Who is the Real Criminal when an Innocent Person is "Executed?" Texas Authorities Exonerate a Black Man They Murdered 70 yrs Ago. Gov says Tommy Lee Walker case marked by racial bias

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Nearly 70 years after a Texas Black man was executed in a case that prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and was riddled with racial bias, officials have declared that he was innocent in the killing of a white woman in Dallas.

Tommy Lee Walker was executed in the electric chair in May 1956 for the rape and murder of 31-year-old Venice Parker.

At the time of the trial, prosecutors had alleged Walker attacked Parker, a store clerk who was on her way home, on the evening of Sept. 30, 1953. Parker’s killing took place during a time of panic and racial division in the Dallas area as there were reports that a Peeping Tom believed to be a Black man was terrorizing women, according to the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office.

But an extensive review of Walker’s conviction by the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, along with the help of the Innocence Project of New York and Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, found multiple problems with Walker’s case. [MORE]

Judge Denied a West Memphis Cop's Request for Immunity for Kicking a Handcuffed Black Man in the Head. Strawboss Mayor Rehired the Fired Unwanted Cop to Impose Mandatory Service on Citizens (Subjects)

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A federal court in Arkansas denied summary judgment to Cecil Langston, a West Memphis police officer on his request for qualified immunity from liability for excessive force claims by Cheezy Pulliam, a Black handcuffed motorist he allegedly kicked in the head. When West Memphis Police Officer Cecil Langston attempted to stop plaintiff Cheezy Pulliam’s car, Pulliam fled and Rash joined in the pursuit. Pulliam’s car ultimately came to a stop and he was arrested by officer Taurus Harvell. Pulliam states that when Rash arrived at the scene, Lnagston kicked Pulliam in the head while Pulliam was lying on the ground in handcuffs.

After a disciplinary hearing, the police chief fired the officer. The city’s mayor, Marco McClendon, overruled the chief, reinstated the officer, gave him a 10-day suspension and ordered him to attend anger management classes. He is denied qualified immunity because “it is clearly established that an arrestee lying on the ground in handcuffs has a right not to be kicked in the head.” [MORE]

Black Family Forced to Drop Lawsuit for Jimmie Saunders after Judge Rules White Appleton Cop Can't Be Held Accountable for Recklessly Firing a Gun in a Bar, Fatally Striking Him in the Back

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ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

Sovereign immunity – “government” so-called, applying the law of the jungle to its relationship to the people. We are bound by the written law but those who wrote the law are bound by the law of the jungle. Makes you feel like a fool, doesn’t it? Minority rule majority fooled? Surely, on earth as it is in heaven. Why would we ever allow “government” to assert the position that it is not bound by the same law that binds us? The answer is that we are fools sweet-talked by judges into believing that the “natural state of affairs” is to bind the people by law, and the “government” by fiat. “Government” has replaced religion as the opiate of the masses using the Media as its subduing gasses (fumes of subterfuge). (See: CHAOS, Judicial System, Constitution, Law, Domestication, Justice, Civilization, Weitiko Disease & “Government”)

From [HERE] and [HERE] The family of a man inadvertently shot and killed by an Appleton police officer during a bar fight will end its wrongful deathful lawsuit, their attorney tells FOX 11.

It was after midnight when a fight broke out between two men at a bar in Wisconsin in 2017, prompting two other men to try to break up the fight, including Jimmie Sanders, a 33-year-old Black man.

However, one of the men fighting pulled out a gun, and a single shot was fired, sending customers running out of the bar, which drew the attention of Appleton Police Lt. Jay Steinke, who was on foot patrol outside the bar with another cop.

Steinke drew his own gun and entered the bar, firing four shots  — one of which struck Sanders in the back and killed him — even though he was trying to break up the fight.

Lt. Jay Steinke shot and killed Jimmie Sanders at Jack's Apple Pub on May 21, 2017. There was a fight at the bar, which Sanders was not a part of. During the incident, Steinke fired, striking Sanders.

After a review, the district attorney cleared Steinke of any criminal charges.

In July 2020, the Sanders estate filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court, accusing Steinke of unreasonable use of force. Steinke's attorneys asserted he is entitled to qualified immunity, discretionary act immunity, and that his conduct was privileged under the law. In September, a federal judge dismissed the case, stating Steinke’s claim of qualified immunity was valid and sufficient.

The family filed a notice of appeal with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Sanders’ briefs were due Friday, but court records show nothing has been filed.

William Sulton, the Sanders’ estate’s attorney told FOX 11 Monday, “We intend to dismiss the appeal voluntarily.”

Sulton said based on the lower court ruling, there was no basis for an appeal. He called the result “justice denied” for Sanders’ family.

‘What would you do if Men in Masks Came at you w/Guns Pointed?” Newark Police Decline to Provide Details After Plainclothes Cops in Unmarked Car Fatally Shot Wali Bey through Windshield as He Fled

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From [HERE] Wali Bey was sitting inside a white minivan with others when undercover officers approached in plain clothes wearing masks, family members told Fox 5. The men inside the minivan did not realize they were police and began to pull away, when an officer opened fire, striking Bey through the windshield, family members said to Fox 5.

According to the Attorney General's Office, the shooting occurred shortly after 1 p.m. in the area of Ross Street and Evergreen Avenue. Newark officers encountered several civilians in the area when the incident unfolded, authorities said. During that encounter, one officer fired his weapon, striking two of them, authorities said.

Authorities say Bey and a man who survived were shot at about 1 p.m. Monday, in the area of Ross Street and Evergreen Avenue in the city’s South Ward.

Mustafa Bey said his cousin and another man were in a parked vehicle when two cars without police markings pulled up, and several men wearing masks and civilian clothes got out.

He said the men approached his cousin’s vehicle with guns drawn, and that his cousin feared for his life and tried to drive away, but was shot.

“What would you do?” Bey said. “Men in masks coming toward you with guns.”

Bey was later pronounced dead at University Hospital in Newark. He is survived by his two children, ages 18 and 2, according to FOX 5.

The lack of information has frustrated family members and community activists, leaving an information void filled by speculation and accusations of a police “murder.”

Amid protests in the city, Mayor Ras Baraka and Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda issued a statement urging residents to allow the investigation process to take its course.

“A stream of misinformation has been circulating regarding details of the incident," the statement reads. “We understand that many in our community are hurting and need factual answers. “We ask our residents to trust the process by exercising patience and by understanding that the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is conducting an impartial and independent investigation on behalf of the people of our great city."

Baraka and Miranda said they expect the investigation will be completed in 20 days. To read the FOX 5 story, click here.

A funeral for Bey was held Thursday, Jan. 22. [MORE]

Amnesty Warns of rising US authoritarianism and human rights violations as Trump Tightens “freedoms” in the Land of the Free Range Prison

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Amnesty International published a report on Tuesday, warning about rising authoritarian practices in the US and detailing numerous ways how the rule of law and human rights are being threatened.

The report, entitled Ringing the Alarm Bells: Rising Authoritarian Practices and Erosion of Human Rights in the United States, identifies twelve areas where Amnesty International claims the US is losing human rights protection and showing growing signs of authoritarianism. Tying these issues largely to the policies of President Donald Trump, they range from freedom of speech and protest to the erosion of anti-discrimination protections. The report highlights especially that one of the key tests of democratic resilience will be the federal midterm elections of November 2026, with many early signals pointing to mounting threats to the right to vote.

Press freedom is another of the report’s points of focus. Amnesty International details instances when the Trump administration limited the access of journalists to administration events or targeted reporters in deportation proceedings. Such limitations include the removal of the Associated Press’ credentials for White House events, after it refused to call the body of water south of the US the “Gulf of America,” as well as the removal of press passes for Department of Defense (DOD) reporters who refused to comply with policies mandating the publishing of only approved materials. The courts have now restored the Associated Press’ credentials, but DOD reports have since turned in their press passes and not returned. [MORE]

ICE Murders Another Citizen for Idiot President: Videos Show Uncontrollable Agents Assault and Disarm a White Man (by removing his holstered firearm) Before Shooting Him 10X in an Unprovoked Attack

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Federal agents who were wrestling a man to the ground in Minneapolis early Saturday secured a handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Bellingcat and a Washington Post analysis of videos that captured the incident from several angles.

As many as eight agents were attempting to detain Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, videos show. One emerged from the scrum holding Pretti’s gun, having removed it from his waistband area. Less than a second later, the first of what appear to be 10 shots was fired. It is not clear from the video whether the other agents realized Pretti — who local authorities believe had a permit to carry the weapon — had been disarmed.

Some of the earliest available footage of the encounter was posted to Instagram and shows an agent crossing the street to talk to Pretti who appears to be filming with his phone, which he is holding in his right hand. According to DHS, agents were conducting an immigration arrest in the area. 

The agent can be seen placing his hand on Pretti’s torso to push him back and away from the middle of the road towards the sidewalk. 

Another video shared on Reddit shows what happened after this initial contact, as well as the lead-up to the shooting. Pretti appears to put himself between two women after they were both shoved by a DHS agent. He is holding a cellphone, held sideways in his right hand.

An agent can then be seen spraying Pretti with a substance from a canister, and continuing to spray him as he turns his back to him. At least five additional federal agents approach and attempt to force Pretti to the ground while one appears to strike him with a spray can. 

Twenty-five seconds after Pretti is first sprayed, a shot is heard followed by nine more shots in the span of about six seconds. Additional video from the scene shows Pretti lying motionless on the ground.

Video Analysis

Bellingcat further analysed the Reddit video, a separate video posted to Facebook and others taken at the scene to break down the key moments of the shooting, splicing them together (see Bluesky post below) to view in more granular detail.

Closer inspection of the videos shows that an agent appears to remove a weapon from the melee before the first shots are fired. 

In both the Reddit and Facebook video, a federal agent wearing a grey jacket can be seen approaching federal agents who are on top of and struggling with Pretti. Notably, the agent’s hands are empty as he approaches. He can be seen reaching into and rummaging amid the bodies. About twelve seconds later, he is seen carrying a handgun away from the scene. Several aspects of the gun the federal agent is seen moving away with appear to match the gun DHS claim belonged to Pretti (and which they posted to X), a Sig Sauer P320, chambered in 9mm. Some posts online mistakenly claimed the photo of the gun was old due to a misunderstanding of Google Reverse Image Search.

While some law enforcement agencies issue Sig Sauer P320 guns to their agents, the gun that DHS claims Pretti had is customized, and visually distinct from those that are standard issue. 

These distinct features include a white pistol grip, black pistol frame, brown slide, and a red dot sight mounted atop the slide. The red dot sight and these various colours are visible on the gun the federal agent is seen leaving with.[MORE]

ICE Believes it Can Murder Anyone Who Carries and Bears Firearms- so MAGA Barks and Claps for More Murders and FreeDumb [like Larken Rose said]

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According to FUNKTIONARY:

Dogma – Am God (spelled backwards). 2) a puppy’s mother—a bitch. 3) instructions on what to believe and how to believe it. 4) truth pressed and starched to appear crisp. 5) any kind of truth that justifies the institutionalized structure of the organization. Reality isn’t wrinkle-free. Every dogma has its day—and a dogma that chases its catechism, will definitely be busy. Dogma is the edifice of ignorance (in the form of static superstitions) and bastion of banality inside your thinking apparatus and thinking process. Dogma is the expression of the belief system that must be adhered to; hatred is the enforcer. Dogma is the rulebook of the particular truth that is being enforced by hatred. The truth that is played with is the game— the rules that enforce how the game is played is the dogma. Dogma is a protector of objective truth; and truth is a prophylactic for reality. Dogma is the bug (fatal flaw) and true believers are the replicating viruses that propagate and distort the internal model of the nature of reality directly experienced within nondual consciousness. People perceive reality’s forms as direct threats on (and to) their truths because they are merely living (in truth at the mythic or rational level of consciousness) and not Alive (living God in reality) at the higher states, levels or realms of consciousness. Nondual consciousness unfolds itself the highest realization that a divine being can experience appearing-as-process in the space-time continuum. “Any time you have a doctrine where that is the truth that you assert, and that what you call the truth is unassailable, you’ve got doctrine, you’ve got dogma on your hands. And so Cosmos is…an offering of science, and a reminder that dogma does not advance science; it actually regresses it.” ~Neil DeGrassi Tyson. Dogma is the straightjacket of the spirit. Before you ever had the opportunity to even ask the question, the answer was given to you. Dogma is believing in borrowed answers to questions you never had the chance to formulate or ask. True believers are people who believe in answers without asking. Believing in borrowed answers is convenient and comfortable. Questioning is never comforting; to question one has to go within oneself. Dogma’s staying power lies in its ability to feed on any experience, digest, then defecate it while pronouncing it as a piece of duty. It secretly enriches itself on that it openly despises. A man of dogma is a dead man, and he clings to dead leaves (beliefs and scriptures) and dead ideologies. His religion is static, codified, organized, lifeless—dead. A true believer and his religion is a corpse. How could it be otherwise? Dogma is bogus; it is repetitive ritualistic hocus-pocus, life unlived, orotund and way out of focus—unaligned with the Divine and unaware of the new reality ever unfolding into the unknown. You will never make it Hohm Alive because you can never make dogma your own. If you listen to and believe in anything other than your existential experience (understanding derived from awareness), you will never make it out of the Jungle—much less realize how close Hohm really is here and Now. Wherever you come across a pile of duty—there is your dogma. A warning sign should accompany all dogma, (be it religious, political or ideological), that reads: “Beware: Wet Shit, No Doubtlet!” Watch your step, there are smelly dogma tracks all around you. (See: TRICK, FUDGE Factor, True Believers, OT, Exodus, Indoctrination, Traditions, Religiobabble, Emancipatory Composition, Dyslexia, HODGE-PODGE, Belief System, Questioning, Thinking, Hatred, Intelligence, Thought, Prostitution, Now, Nine Forty-Five, Understanding, Overstanding, Unlearning, Divine Impartation, Awakening, Dawn, Truth Laundering, Violence, Warmonger, Experience, Science, Questions, Answers, Reconstituted Religion, Unanswering, Renunciation, Religious Franchises & Belief Pushers)

dogma – spiritual mace; a reality-repellant—a fixed form petrification of a belief system or concretized thought-system. 2) religious institutional inertia—a catechism of closed theo-rhetorical ethic that cannot change you or you it. 3) the building of a door with a limitation built by and for a prospective adherent, which he/she cannot go beyond. 4) reconstituted institutionalized belief. 5) inhibited, ingrown and perverted spirituality. 6) dead tenets of dead religion on which most are (were) razed (authentic-self rent asunder) to believe unquestionably. 7) the limitations imposed by intellect, imagination, dimension, suspicion, belief and superstition. 8) ego-knowledge—taught through noise, fear and memory, and in that order. 9) fundamental statements of absolute fact based on lies. 10) permanent self-sealing truths formulated and held about reality without question. 11) prefabricated religion; anti-spirituality; instant creed—just add ritual. 12) an authoritative and precisely formulated statement of religious doctrine that is advanced, not for discussion or questioning, but for unquestioning belief by the naïve. 13) convictions entombed in a declaration of blind adherence to a set of stringent beliefs or vice versa. The objective of dogma is to bind the mind to error. Religious dogma is worship by rote. Dogma, though not a four-letter word, is a four-legged creature, itself being the second leg of a vicious cycle of static truth, dogma, hatred and violence. Dogma is an integral and activating aspect of the mind-prism-prison constructed out of 3-D translucent ecclesiastical bullshit. This perverse prism down through the ages has reflected the lies, diffracted the reality, displaced the structure of truth with the content of truth and thereby created the color spectrum of consciousness that you now occupy and peregrinate under. Truth (conscience; physical effects; outer seasons) is another name for a destructive competitive local personal static mythic God, whereas reality (consciousness; immaterial causes, inner realms) is another name for a noncompetitive dynamic cooperating unfolding pattern or non-local universal creative Principle or Divine Love that modifies matter (and our interpretations and impressions of it) based on the morphing nature of Life—the underlying or foremost principle being unceasing or incessant change. If you mind truth (deify it), dogma is your yield and religious hocus-pocus becomes your spiel and submissionary zeal. If you mine truth (edit it), nuggets of reality (insights) are your gain without enduring the hoary gory savior-god pain. Dogma is the bug (fatal flaw) and true believers are the replicating viruses that propagate and distort the internal model of the nature of reality directly experienced within nondual consciousness. People perceive reality’s forms as direct threats on (and to) their truths because they are merely living (in truth at the mythic or rational level of consciousness) and not Alive (living God in reality) at the higher states, levels or realms of consciousness. Nondual consciousness unfolds itself the highest realization that a divine being can experience appearing-as-process in the space-time continuum. Dogma is an enemy occupation camp holed up in the most fertile regions of your subconscious mind. “Doctrines can only be created in darkness; in the light, there can be no beliefs.” ~Osho. Religious dogma is like holding out an empty fist to a child—taken in, but no reality in it. When you get to know the mind and get to its source, all of this becomes apparent of course. Dogma is like dead branches. All you need is to get to the root and you will come to sprout living ones naturally on your own. Dogma becomes believed secondhand or underhandedly— reality becomes known candidly first hand (when you cease handing over paradoxes and subjective truth for another’s contradictions of objective or absolute truth)—and this you must overstand (so your credulity doesn’t get too far out-ofhand). Dogma is designed to lead you away from the self-transcending path of spiritual awareness. It arrives to us as stale, pre-packaged definitive answers to unanswerable questions. Different dogmas are nothing more than different cells in a spiritual prison block. Dogma is always hypostasized. Even science is entrenched with dogmas of mechanism and materialsm—making it too a belief system. People need to better understand dogmas (religious, political and scientific) for what they are so they don’t become deluded by them. Dogmas camouflage rather than disclose deeper meanings. Reverse the spell-curse of dogma, invert the prism, unlock the prison, and come correct for a change. Isn’t dogma a bitch? (See: God, Change, Second Coming, Beliefs, The Jungle, Organized Religion, Science, Reality-Based Truth, Proselytute, The Garden, PRISM, Meme, Religion, GOD, The Forest, Priestcraft, Hohm, Seedless Knowledge, Authority, Tradition, BC, AD, Third Coming, Ideologies, Words, Mysticism, Belief Systems, Illiteralists, Feedback & Absolute Truth)

Black Man’s Lawsuit Claims Baltimore Cops Shot Him for No Reason, Planted Evidence and the DA Falsely Subjected Him to 4 Unsuccessful Murder Trials

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From [HERE] Keith Davis Jr., a man who stood trial four times for a deadly shooting that he always maintained that he did not commit, has sued former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and some of the police officers involved in his case.

Davis and his wife, Kelly, filed a lawsuit on Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court alleging that police shot him multiple times without legal justification and then conspired to plant evidence to cover it up. The complaint further asserts that the state’s attorney maliciously prosecuted and defamed him.

The lawsuit contains 12 counts, including fabrication of evidence, excessive force and false arrest.

Baltimore Police Officer Lane Eskins, former Officer Catherine Filippou, former Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and the city are also named as defendants.

The case galvanized people in the community to action. Kelly Davis and DeRay Mckesson, a civil rights activist in Baltimore, spearheaded a campaign that involved protests, billboards and posts on social media that featured the hashtag #FreeKeithDavisJr.

Keith Davis has always professed his innocence in the killing of Kevin Jones, 22, a security guard at Pimlico Race Course who was fatally shot before 5 a.m. on June 7, 2015.

Police were investigating the attempted robbery of a hack driver several hours later and chased Davis into a mechanic’s garage on Eleanora Avenue near Hayward Avenue in Northwest Baltimore. Officers fired dozens of shots and hit him three times.

In 2016, Davis was found not guilty of all charges except for one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

From the beginning, Davis claimed that law enforcement planted a handgun near him. He was the first person police shot in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man who died of injuries he sustained in police custody.

One week after his almost-total acquittal, Davis was charged with first-degree murder and related offenses.

Twice, a jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. Courts on two other occasions overturned convictions. [MORE]

Were MLK’s Coercive Tactics Really Non-Violent? What is Violence if No Government is Legitimate in the first place and “Authority” is nothing more than a belief in people’s minds?

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We come, finally, to the concept of violence. Strictly speaking, violence is the illegitimate or unauthorized use of force to effect decisions against the will or desire of others. Thus, murder is an act of violence, but capital punishment by a legitimate state is not; theft or extortion is violent, but the collection of taxes by a legitimate state is not. Clearly, on this interpretation the concept of violence is normative as well as descriptive, for it involves an implicit appeal to the principle of de jure legitimate authority. There is an associated sense of the term which is purely descriptive, relying on the descriptive notion of de facto authority. Violence in this latter sense is the use of force in ways that are proscribed or unauthorized by those who are generally accepted as the legitimate authorities in the territory. Descriptively speaking, the attack on Hitler's life during the second World War was an act of violence, but one might perfectly well deny that it was violent in the strict sense, on the grounds that Hitler's regime was illegitimate. On similar grounds, it is frequently said that police behavior toward workers or ghetto dwellers or demonstrators is violent even when it is clearly within the law, for the authority issuing the law is illegitimate.

It is common, but I think wrong-headed, to restrict the term Violence' to uses of force that involve bodily interference or the direct infliction of physical injury. Carrying a dean out of his office is said to be violent, but not seizing his office when he is absent and locking him out. Physically tearing a man's wallet from his pocket is "violent," but swindling him out of the same amount of money is not. There is a natural enough basis for this distinction. Most of us value our lives and physical well-being above other goods that we enjoy, and we tend therefore to view attacks or threats on our person as different in kind from other sorts of harm we might suffer. Nevertheless, the distinction is not sufficiently sharp to be of any analytical use, and, as we shall see later, it usually serves the ideological purpose of ruling out, as immoral or politically illegitimate, the only instrument of power that is available to certain social classes, [607]

In its strict or normative sense, then, the concept of political violence depends upon the concept of de jure, or legitimate authority. If there is no such thing as legitimate political authority, then it is impossible to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate uses of force. Now, of course, under any circumstances, we can distinguish between right and wrong, justified and unjustified, uses of force. Such a distinction belongs to moral philosophy in general, and our choice of the criteria by which we draw the distinction will depend on our theory of value and obligation. But the distinctive political concept of violence can be given a coherent meaning only by appeal to a doctrine of legitimate political authority.[MORE]

Willie D: A White Man in DC Threatened a Black Man and Called Him NGHR. So the Black Man Turned the White Man’s Cheek and Stomped Him in the Street

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Osho Rajineesh explained the robotic application of violence or non-violence as dogma to any given situation is stupid, reactionary.

“Jesus said that if somebody hits you on one cheek, turn the other cheek. You are asking me what I have to say about it. This will be the attitude of a man who believes in the idea of non-violence, the philosopher of non-violence. But when you are hit by somebody and you give him the other cheek, you are encouraging violence in the world. It is not non-violence. And you are assuming something which is absolutely your imagination. If somebody hits me, according to Jesus I have to give him my other cheek. But his tastes may be different. He may have enjoyed the first hit, he may enjoy the second even more; he may be a sadist. Then you are encouraging a sadist to torture people; you are encouraging violence. Even to allow your own body to be tortured by somebody is to encourage violence.

No, this stupid ideology has been the downfall of the whole of India. [MORE] and [MORE]

Probable Cause Exists to Arrest and Charge ICE Cop with Murder but Cowardly Dumbocrats Delay. Self Defense is Weak b/c Cop Created the Danger and MN is Not a Stand Your Ground State

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Attorney Marjorie Cohn explains: A Minnesota prosecutor should charge Ross with first-degree murder. . .

Minnesota Murder Statutes

Given the politics of the case it would seem wise for the state to take charge of the prosecution and to resist efforts by federal authorities to take over the case.

Under Minnesota law, a person who causes the death of a human being with premeditation and the intent to kill is guilty of first-degree murder and shall be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Intent to kill can be shown by circumstantial evidence. Ross’ shooting at Good’s head from a short distance is proof of an intent to kill.

Premeditation can occur in moments; there is no minimum amount of time required. It can happen over a matter of months or in a matter of seconds. Ross has a gun in his hand, methodically raises it and shoots at Good multiple times, while saying, “Fucking bitch.” This is evidence of premeditation. 

There is sufficient evidence for a prosecutor to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ross is guilty of first degree murder.

When a person has the intent to kill but acts without premeditation, he or she is guilty of second-degree murder, and may be sentenced to a maximum of 40 years in prison.

Even if a jury does not find beyond a reasonable doubt that Ross premeditated the murder of Good, it would likely convict Ross of second-degree murder in light of the strong evidence of his intent to kill her.

Causing the death of another by perpetrating an eminently dangerous act with a depraved mind and no regard for human life constitutes third-degree murder which carries a maximum of 25 years in prison and/or a maximum fine of $40,000.

Shooting at Good’s head through the window of her car constituted an eminently dangerous act with Ross’ depraved mind and no regard for human life, which support a conviction of third-degree murder.

Although at a minimum, Ross’ actions satisfy the elements of manslaughter, they also constitute evidence of murder. A Minnesota prosecutor should charge him with first-degree murder. . . 

Supremacy Clause Immunity

In his defense, Ross would try to “remove” the state case to federal court by arguing that he has immunity from state prosecution.

Supremacy Clause immunity is not absolute immunity. It applies only when a federal official acts within the scope of their lawful federal duties. Federal officers are protected against state prosecutions if they can show that although their actions violated state law, they were “’necessary and proper’ in the discharge of their federal responsibilities.”

The inquiry would be whether Ross’ shooting of Good was necessary and proper to enforce the federal immigration law. If he acted beyond the scope of his duties, or behaved in an egregious or unjustified manner, the case would remain in Minnesota state court. Shooting Good dead was not within the scope of Ross’ ICE duties.

Once a state case is removed to federal court, the federal court will apply state substantive law.

The Claim of Self-Defense

Ross will claim that he acted in self-defense when he shot Good so the killing was justified. To prove self-defense, Ross would need to show that shooting Good was necessary to resist or prevent an offense that he reasonably believed exposed him or another to death or great bodily harm.

Minnesota’s use-of-force laws authorize officers to use deadly force only when a reasonable officer would think it necessary to protect themselves or others from death or great bodily harm that “is reasonably likely to occur absent action by the law enforcement officer.”

It allows officers to shoot only when the threat “must be addressed through the use of deadly force without unreasonable delay.” Thus, if the threat can be addressed without the use of deadly force, or if it’s reasonable to delay, the use of deadly force would violate Minnesota law. Ross could have stepped out of the way and gotten Good’s license plate number instead of shooting her.

Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Barnes v. Felix, which said that in assessing the reasonableness of an officer’s use of deadly force, courts must look beyond simply the moment the officer fires the weapon. The court “must consider all the relevant circumstances, including facts and events leading up to the climactic moment.” This would require consideration of what the officer did leading up to the confrontation, including Ross’ decision not to step out of the way of Good’s car. 

Minnesota law requires the “duty to retreat.” It requires individuals to avoid the use of deadly force if it is possible to do so safely, before they act in self-defense. [MORE]