Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police stands with ICE

[Ocelot II]

6. Of course they do.

And yes, of course an officer who's accused of a crime is entitled to due process - but that cuts both ways. The people who are the victims of the accused officer's crime - and all the rest of us - are also entitled to a fair resolution of the officer's guilt or innocence. But apparently it's OK to accuse the officer's victim of domestic terrorism and making her death at the officer's hands her fault without even investigating what actually happened in order to exonerate the officer in advance. The statement calls for "a stop to the anti-law enforcement rhetoric . . . while the facts come out." That would be fine - if we had any realistic hope of an impartial investigation and not one conducted by the same government that has already decided the outcome.