that we, as general citizens cannot (legally) provoke a fight, then shoot someone and claim “self defense”.

Same same this stupid incident in Minneapolis.

While the idiot woman Fucked around and Found out, the ICE Agent (now named) cannot jump in front of a vehicle attempting to flee and shoot at it before the driver even has a chance to respond and then claim “Justified Force” because “Vehicular Assault”….

“ICE Barbie” and Tom Homan’s narrative not withstanding.

ETA: Even the “New” footage (some say BodyCam, but it looks more like a cellphone video to me) shows the officer stepping in front of the car as it starts to move, putting himself in harms way….(ETA: It was indeed a a cell phone held in his left hand)

And he was so “Afraid for his life” that he was able to hold the cell phone in one hand while drawing and firing with the other.  Seemed like he was pretty calm for a man who thought he was about to be run down by a “4000 lb weapon”

And all he had to do was take one more step to his left to be out of harm’s way. Which he DID after shooting three shots. Funny that.

Instead, he chose to draw and fire three shots (and it wasn’t that fast of a draw, he had  plenty of time to move). The more we see, the worse it looks for agent Ross.

I gotta give the dude some credit:

So I get a spam call that I mistakenly answered thinking it was the plane broker in Georgia (same area code, same prefix) instead of what it was….

“Hey this is Chris with GA Tree Removal and Trimming. We are offering New Year Discounts”

I reply “You sick bastard, my brother Frank just died trimming some trees the day after Christmas in a terrible ladder accident…What kind of sick joker are you? (that sort of reply usually gets them upset and changes their attitude….I hate spam callers)

Dude comes right back: “We also offer bereavement pricing”. I was impressed. Balls, he has. I actually didn’t have a comeback for that.

If I were in Georgia and needed tree trimming, I’d hire them just due to the above

JD Vance thinks that ICE agents have “Absolute Immunity”

Anyone that thinks that (and apparently the Agents (at least some of them) believe it as well, based on their actions over the past few months) is both an idiot and a danger to our republic.

If there is no accountability then there are no limits to the behavior. Which is really scary.. Apparently Vance thinks that there are no limits for ICE.

(Even “Absolute Immunity” has limits, BTW, and Law Enforcement are not among those that have it)

The concept that Vance could even say that (much less believe it) disturbs me as I was considering him as a potential candidate to follow Trump. but that statement in itself is likely gonna be a disqualifier.

“Let the courts sort it out”

And so we should expect to see the ICE agents charged with murder in Minneapolis and let the courts do exactly that.

That’s what would happen if it were a regular citizen, and not an ICE agent.

I must say I was appalled that Tom Homan said in National TV that there has never been a single incident of excessive force by an ICE agent to date.

It makes me wonder what it takes.

firstly, the protester didn’t belong there and was looking for trouble…and she got more than she bargained for.

Having said that, I saw a murder, plain and simple. If the police in Minneapolis had any hair on their balls, they’d arrest and charge the ICE agents (2 of them) with at least attempted murder. The first who shot through the window, and the second who shot at the back of the car as it tried to flee.

Go look at the video. I watched the whole thing.  The shot happened before the car moved. The officer is a murderer. The use of Lethal Force was not justifiable. “Weaponized her vehicle” is bullshit.

‘Tis interesting that one the one hand, Homan “doesn’t want to judge based on one video” but is willing to blame the idiot woman with attacking the officers with a car……..What a bunch of bullshit. He judges, just not his officers.

If that (either one of the agents) were you or me, we’d be in cuffs and charged with murder.

Plain and simple, this was not “self defense”…no matter how you or “Ice Barbie” tries  to spin it. It was murder. But that is what you get when you recruit from the rejects of police agencies.

But then again, the woman was complicit in her own demise…she chose to put herself there.

Notice one thing: The ICE boys just walked away, they didn’t try to do any first aid, nor anything else. They just walked away. That should tell you something.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself…all human progress depends on the unreasonable man”

“Always assume that Murphy’s Law is a fundamental force in this universe”

“A year from now, all the things you are worrying about today will be forgotten”

“Stick to your principles, else you have none”

“The person who no longer cares about the outcome is the most dangerous opponent”

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will”

“Excessive pride and stubbornness keep us from healing our brokenness.”

“Apologize before you expect others to forgive you.:

Apparently President Trump has claimed that he is interested in “taking over” Greenland, by force if necessary…..

I am all for the US having Greenland as a protectorate, or even a state, should that come to pass.

As long as the citizens of Greenland want that.

So far, I have seen nothing to make me believe that either the government nor the citizenry of Greenland are even leaning in that direction. They are an autonomous portion of Denmark, and thus part of a NATO ally.

Plus, if the US does it, then we cannot object when China takes over Taiwan or when Putin invaded another baltic country besides Ukraine.

And I don’t see where the US has lost anything in Greenland.

Thus I think at this point “Taking over” would be an invasion, and illegal.

The Somalian situation is a perfect example of the failure of the Liberal (read DNC) immigration policies:

By allowing the hispanic people to cross the border over the past 40 or 50 years, and allowing them to colonize, rather than assimilate, by making accommodations for them (things like spanish language exams for drivers licenses and such) by allowing radio and TV stations to transmit in Spanish rather than requiring english, they set precedent for today such that our latest bunch, the Somalis, continue their tribalist ways, leading to the latest tribe centered theft ..

By making excuses for the past 40 or 50 years for the hispanics behavior, they set precedent for the debacle we have today….setting standards of behavior so low and making excuses for them, that we are shocked (some of us, not me) when these people don’t act like our white european neighbors….because no one made them act like AMERICANS, but rather just visitors from another place who are living like they did back home.

Surprised when their values are not like ours, because they never had to learn ours, never had to learn to be part of our society.

Shocked when people from Somalia act like Somalians …but after all, we let the folks from Mexico and places south act like Mexicans rather than Americans, and the Somalis are no different. Why anyone is surprised baffles me.

and until the scandals and his failed philosophies caught up with him, he WAS a governor that could make policy…

Tim Walz expected to drop out of governors race

I mean, his policies changed a bunch of stuff, and enriched a bunch of people…..likely including him and his family, so it isn’t a total loss for him.

You have to ask yourself how stupid the people of Minnesota were to elect him the first and especially the second time….

and that they are “Investigating”… (along with the Epstein mess, of course) :

When will we see people punished, arrested, perp-walked….?