A summary of the legal violations by ICE re: Renee Good [View all]

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This post is purportedly by an attorney. I thought it was very helpful.

Post by @boulah_boulah

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Here is the first part (it’s a long post):

“ For the first 4 years of my legal career, I was tasked with defending police officers in civil suits for excessive force, false arrest, malicious prosecution, and various other civil rights claims. I conducted 9 jury trials in federal court during these years. With that background, I can honestly say without hesitation that the Minnesota videos i saw are the most appalling conduct by “law enforcement” I have seen. There are a number of violations of law, in addition to police policies and procedures. Justice demands criminal prosecution of the shooter, discipline for each ICE agent involved in approaching that vehicle, and civil suits (including seeking punitive damages for wrongful death) against all ICE agents involved, and here is why:

1) The stated purpose for their mission is to apprehend violent criminals for civil deportation. It is clear that they are going well beyond their authority in detaining and attempting to detain US citizens that legally have every right to be present, videotape, blow whistles, etc. The only proper recourse for these officers is to ask for voluntary compliance, or alternatively is to call local police that have the authority to enforce local
statutes, including traffic and noise violations.

2) The officers approached a vehicle in the road without any legal basis to do so. ICE does not have jurisdiction over traffic laws (if the claim is the woman is illegally parked and/or blocking them).

3) Additionally, ICE cannot broadly claim that being illegally parked in a road is impeding their law enforcement effort, as I have seen argued. While obstruction would be a reason to detain someone, there has to be an underlying legal event that they are obstructing, such as they have a judicial warrant to arrest someone/search somewhere and Ms. Good is taking actions to impede that, hiding the person, blocking the arrest, blocking a search, etc. …”