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websiteapi | 1 month ago

this is not true. why is this upvoted? first of all, ICE is federal. second, they were acting as part of "federal official" duties. it will be trivial to move any state prosecution to federal court.

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jcranmer|1 month ago

Federal officers aren't immune from state prosecution just because they're federal officers, or because they're doing their federal duties at the moment. They also have to be acting in accord with their federal duties. See, e.g., https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-federal-officials-i... (although that's not in response to the current incident).

They will certainly attempt to dismiss any charges, but they are far from guaranteed that they will be successful.

websiteapi|1 month ago

They’re literally on camera doing ice work (prior to the killing), virtually guaranteed it’ll count.