Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act to end protests in Minneapolis

[AZJonnie]

10. So I read the BBC account of this incident with the shovel.

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"In a statement on X, the DHS said Wednesday's shooting happened after a car chase involving a Venezuelan national who was in the country illegally.

It ended in a crash and the driver was joined by two more people who all attacked the officer,"

and then

"As the officer was being ambushed and attacked by the two individuals, the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick."

Seems pretty fucking unlikely the situation is properly called an "ambush", unless the pathological liars at DHS are suggesting that the VZ national somehow purposefully got himself involved in an ICE pursuit so he could drive them to where his co-conspirators were lying in wait, who were armed only with household tools readily available to most people in the area

ETA: Frankly the whole thing sounds like complete bullshit. In what universe does a LONE ICE officer engage in the vehicular pursuit of an alleged illegal Venezuelan fleeing arrest, and wind up confronting them alone? Normally they "deploy" about 20 heavily-armed agents to apprehend an 80 pound, 70 year old Mexican lady selling churros in the Home Depot parking lot.

I ain't buying one word of DHS's bullshit accounts of ANYTHING