Andrew Weissman

I have two reactions.

So one is I want to make sure people understand what is normal so they can understand how abnormal and outrageous this is.

What is normal is that there is an investigation of the shooting and of the agent who did the shooting.

And that happens

all the time.

That is standard operating procedure, even when you might know at headquarters that it's unlikely that the officer did anything wrong.

The agent knows.

Everyone knows there's going to be an investigation to make sure that there was nothing wrong there.

And you know who wants to know that?

Obviously, the public wants to know that.

The organization wants to know, did everything go right?

If not,

What else could be done to make sure if something went wrong that it doesn't happen again?

What policies need to change?

The agent, if nothing happened, the agent wants it because the agent wants to be cleared and show that they were in a terrible situation and that they didn't do anything wrong.

The only reason to not have an investigation is one that is hard to think of.

Let's say there's no good reason for it.

And then contrast that with the idea that you would open an investigation of the actual victim.

And to me, that is a playbook that we've seen over and over again.

And, you know, let's just go back to Mr. Obrego Garcia, who is the man who was illegally extracted from this country, where court after court said he was taken and removed and shoved into a prison in El Salvador illegally.