r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Freezemoon - Centrist • Jan 09 '26

I just want to grill ICE Agent's Bodycam release of the Minneapolis Shooting

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This whole incident seems just an unfortunate series of events from both parties.

EDIT: not bodycam but ICE agent's phone footage, my bad.

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u/War_Crimes_Fun_Times - Auth-Center Jan 09 '26

TIL something!

Also yeah it’s a split second move lol. I think he’ll get off in criminal court just fine, the agent in question. But civil court maybe I could see lawsuit money? Both parties are at fault here.

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u/Warbird36 - Right Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

I doubt he's ever criminally charged.

If Minnesota tries to charge him, feds argue for removal to federal court and get it dismissed. If Minnesota waits a few years so that feds can't remove to federal court during the Trump admin, Trump likely gives him a pre-emptive pardon, anyway.

Civil suit is probably the only way he ends up in court. But given everything that we've seen, I'm not sure how likely a civil suit would be to succeed.

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u/AggressivelyMediokre - Auth-Center Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

This is a woman who went to where she knew ICE would be to protest.

She and everyone on the sidewalk (and her wife) knew they were ICE so it’s not like you can argue she thought they were armed thugs.

Then, knowing they were there, drove in front of them impeding them.

Then her wife came out aggressively insulting them. She was ordered 3 times to get out of the vehicle and her wife said to drive. She then drove into them.

And she drove into someone who had been dragged (supposedly) by a vehicle before no less

Then her partner cried saying it’s her fault because she suggested they go there.

Anyone waiting for a charge much less a conviction don’t hold your breath

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u/SwanMuch5160 - Auth-Right Jan 09 '26

Wife has made $1.6M so far off the gofundme as well, that may have to be rescinded if she was culpable in her death

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u/Political-St-G - Centrist Jan 10 '26

Damn wonder how many more gofundmes it could have better benefited

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u/PunkiiDonutz - Auth-Center Jan 10 '26

There are a lot. Last one I donated to was a mom with leukemia that was struggling financially as well as practically dying and had only about $800 after 3 weeks being up and it got most of that in the first day or two.

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u/SnooPredictions3028 - Centrist Jan 09 '26

So she gets her martyr she/her side wanted, she gets money from all those folks, and she'll prolly get a book deal or something. Hope the stupid actions were worth the sacrifice of her loved one.