Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, said in a news conference that she will ask the Justice Department to prosecute the use of vehicles to block immigration enforcement operations as domestic terrorism.
Which is typical trumpian idiocy, because blocking people is the opposite of terrorism. Non-violent resistance is not terrorism.
Kristi Noem defended the use of deadly force by the federal agent and said that agency policy permitted an agent to fire on someone threatening officers with a deadly weapon, including a vehicle.
But she wasn’t threatening officers with her car, she was driving away. Maybe she had threatened them with her car earlier, I don’t know, but in those seconds before the Ice agent killed her she was driving away from the Feds.
Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, said at a news conference that the agent who fired his weapon has been treated at a hospital and released. He can be seen in videos of the shooting walking around the scene after firing his weapon, with no apparent injuries.
Which is not surprising since nobody and nothing touched him.
After a federal immigration agent fatally shot a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis, homeland security officials described the driver as a violent rioter who had “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.”
That explanation — which state and local officials have disputed — is not an unusual one from authorities after such incidents. It’s a claim that often has been used as justification for fatal police shootings of otherwise unarmed motorists, a 2021 New York Times investigation found. Often, the motorist was simply trying to get away, trying to edge around officers rather than mow them down.
And in fact the guy who shot her is the one who approached her; she didn’t approach or aim her car at him.
It’s the old “she hurt my hand with her face” ploy. But lethal.
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