Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement there was “no basis” for an investigation. The statement comes as new polling shows over half of Americans say the shooting was unjustified.
Justice Department officials said on Jan. 13 there is “no basis” for an investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good, the mother of three whose fatal shooting by an immigration enforcement agent sparked protests across the country.
“There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement referring to Good.
The 37-year-old was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross, when she moved her car forward near the ICE agent. Her death has inspired widespread protests against the Trump administration’s militarized use of the Department of Homeland Security.
Seems like someone needs to “investigate” the DOJ then. It likely won’t be the democrats, will it be the people?
over half of Americans say the shooting was unjustified.
That’s a low bar to pass if I’ve ever seen one.
This is pretty much what I expected from this scum administration.
The real depressing news is in the linked article, where a survey showed only 53% of respondents thought the shooting was unjustified (35% thought it was justified, rest gave no opinion). I don’t understand how you see that video and come away with any other conclusion unless you’re just being actively partisan.
Don’t accept this answer. There must be an investigation as the public demands it. These jokers just don’t get it.
No one’s going to make them. The entire regime is shit from top to bottom.
Wtf are state investigators, how is there not already a warrant out
Fascists Choose Not To Investigate Themselves
I’ll take “No Fucking Shit” for $1000, Ken.
The Department of Justice is instead moving to investigate Good’s widow
Jesus fucking Christ, the nerve of these people
the cruelty is the point
This is the ‘Flood the Zone’ strategy used by Russia and promoted by Bannon in the last Trump admin.
It doesn’t matter if it is bullshit, in fact it is always bullshit that drives outrage. They keep doing it enough so that the news is clogged up reporting on bullshit and the algorithms are recommending bullshit instead of covering important stories in depth.
It has leaked that ICE agents are terrified of blowback from this murder: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice
Yeah of course they’re cowards. Keep the pressure on, don’t let them sleep at night.
I’m reminded of how justice is served on the ice in a hockey game. If a player executes an illegal, dangerous hit on another player, especially if the victim is the goalie or a star player, and the refs don’t call shit, then that guy is about to get his ass beat.
There will be consequences, even if the DoJ refuses to act. The heat is rising on this cold civil war. When trump crowns himself head of the fed and slashes interest rates, and when the dollar crashes soon thereafter, shit’s gonna get crazy.
I’m also predicting that somebody high up in this administration refers to America as an “empire” and then a “realm” and possibly just straight up a “reich” within this year.
Turn up the heat, melt the ICE
Amereicha?
That seems to be the thing the administration fails to understand, accountability through apparent investigations and prosecutions mollify the anger. Even if consequences are by any reasonable measure are mild, people are still mollified at an acknowledgement of wrong doing. Deny them this, and the anger rises…
Similarly, being able to lose an election has similar value. Your opponents “won” they don’t need to extract more out of you. Deny them that and again people are going to potentially break.
Anecdotally, I know of a few people that seem shockingly close to violent uprising that I never would have guessed. I can’t imagine the volume of people closer to extreme views and when they will snap…
Propaganda.
If the family members of a couple of them disappeared maybe they’d be scared. Eye for an eye and all that.
But, I’m not evil like them so.
Time for Minnesota to handle it. You can’t say “we can’t and you can’t either” (granted that’s what they’ll try to say)
I wonder if Ellison can sue for the evidence, and if the evidence is gone if he can bring criminal indictments against DoJ/DHS individuals
When the people don’t get justice through legal means, they have no choice but to seek it through illegal means.
There is no longer any justice in America.
Yeah…
But that’s been true for a long time.
We tried convincing “moderates” that back when Biden was in office and we could fix shit.
But Biden wouldn’t, and now that shit is bad for suburban white moms too, suddenly it’s a brand new issue.
Like, great you finally realized it, but it would have been best if you didn’t ignore everyone telling you that your entire life.
Because then you could have helped us fix shit before it was bad for you personally
At the very least, learn that lesson moving forward:
I love how a white mom being killed is “the final straw” that shows how there is no justice and not the last year of gestapo disappearing people for not being white enough.
It kinda makes you think how fucked is the country.
Rodney King was 35 years ago…
And if you keep going back further, shit keeps getting worse.
To be clear tho, the problem was the moderate wing controlling the party, and that’s already been solved with the last DNC chair election. And if a nonbiased primary gets us a progressive, they get to name the DNC chair the next four years.
Shit was real bad during the great depression, but that’s what it took to get “moderate” voters onboard with progress. It’s why incremental improvement never works, once it’s “good enough” for one person, they stop fighting for what others want, even tho it took those other people to get “good enough” for the people who abandon them.
It’s one of the biggest reasons for our shitty cyclic history, people unwilling to finish the fight once personally appeased.
Is milquetoast moderate fail policy really solved with “leaders” like Schumer and Jeffries still ramming their heads up corporate asses?
100% agree with you on gradual incrementalism being a false hope. To quote MLK, this is no time for the tranquilizing drug of gradualism, but for the urgency of now.
Buddy, Biden couldn’t because Dems had no real power the entire administration. Let’s not pretend republican obstructionism hasn’t kneecapped every Democratic effort on the last twenty years, literally requiring a supermajority to pass any meaningful legislation.
Dems had no real power the entire administration
Really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/117th_United_States_Congress
50/50 senate and a house majority for two years…
That wasn’t enough for the guy who campaigned as the “Senate whisperer” who could get Republicans on board for compromise long before we dreamed of a 50/50 split?
Are you telling me that asking Biden to get something thru a 50/50 Senate was impossible?
Then why the fuck did he lie so much about what he could do, and why aren’t you upset with him?
Like, logically you’re still saying it’s his fault.
Also, somebody should mention the fact that 50 votes in the Senate plus a VP tiebreaker vote was all that was needed to just throw out the filibuster
Amazing how people who accuse progressives of not knowing how stuff works or whatever always forget that little detail
Amazing how people who accuse progressives of not knowing how stuff works or whatever always forget that little detail
The sad part is, Ive explained it to them before.
I didn’t recognize them at first, but I blocked them at least once under that same user name from a different instance.
Like, they were just following me around calling me a commie for a while:
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=14783121
Looks like when they got banned from lemmy.ml, they suddenly wanted to make a new account for unrelated reasons.
It always starts out semi-rational, but when you respond rationally and calmly they immediately start making maga level insults. It’s probably why they have to keep making so many accounts.
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Yes, a Democrat getting something through a 50/50 Senate is fucking impossible and has been for nearly two decades.
Then why did Biden say he could get the dem platform thru a Republican majority Senate if he was elected?
Like, let’s get that part cleared up, if it’s impossible as you say then Biden was either lying his ass off, or he was already so far gone mentally he really believed it.
In either case, how are you still insisting he is blameless?
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From 12/25/20
President-elect Joe Biden expressed optimism that he will be able to work with Republicans because of his years working alongside them, despite a sharply divided Congress.
“My leverage is, every senior Republican knows I’ve never once, ever, misled them,” Biden said on a telephone call Wednesday with several columnists, according to The New York Times. “I’ll never publicly embarrass them.”
Even into 2022
Speaking at a White House news conference, Biden vowed to work with Republicans and said he understood voters are frustrated despite Democrats’ surprisingly competitive campaign.
“The American people have made clear, I think, that they expect Republicans to be prepared to work with me as well,” Biden said. He also reiterated his intention to run for re-election in 2024 and said he would make a final decision early next year.
A White House official said Biden spoke by phone on Wednesday with Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, who would be the leading candidate for House speaker if Republicans win a majority.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrats-look-curb-losses-republicans-us-congress-2022-11-09/
If it’s so obvious, why didn’t Biden notice?
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Biden absolutely could have made a massive difference, but of course he wouldn’t - his entire career was built on being a DINO and helping Repugs get what they want. Red lining, no bankruptcy for student loan borrowers, removing the public option before negotiations even began on Romney’s old healthcare bill, teaming up with Hillary to steal the nom from Bernie twice, refusing to ask Merrick Garland to do anything about Trump’s J6 insurrection until 2023, and Israel First policy.
I could go on but hopefully you get the point. Yes Repugs are notorious obstructionists, but Dems are all too eager to do nothing or worse when they get power and it shows with our rapid decline into a fascist authoritarian state.
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It was always imperfect, but now we’re not even trying. There’s no point in maintaining a façade. They’re happy to just tell you to get fucked what are you gonna do about it?
Isn’t that the entire purpose of the Second Amendment?
Y’all re-elected a former president who attempted to overturn an election through a violent and deadly mob and an invasion on your Capitol Building.
Then during the four years of the next administration you all refused to actually hold him accountable for his actions, afraid of it being “too political”.
There hasn’t been justice in America for a long time now.
There hasn’t been justice in America since the Civil War. But glad you’re awake now
this country was build on Indigenous genocide and Black enslavement. from its founding and even before, the US’s principles of justice have always been a cruel farce.
So what good are they then, and why should American citizens pay to keep them around?
Yea, where is the call to not file taxes this year? We need a movement that calls for it so the few that do are not attacked. If you don’t expect a refund then we should just not file.
I expect to owe thousands this year so I plan to file an extension to October and then just…not file.
And then I’ll just slow responding to the letter if/when they come.
I think it’ll work for awhile, I literally just got confirmation that my 2021 taxes that were filed on time were processed. They’re definitely lagging.
If we are expecting a refund would it be more impactful to file and receive that refund or to simply not participate?
If the government is going to pay you for filing the taxes you have already paid… Take the refund.
If you owe money, tell the IRS to eat a bag of dicks.
Take the refund.
Shocking. I think I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from not-surprise!
I’m gonna start leaving shopping carts in parking spaces.
