Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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The Prairieland Defendants Support Committee did ask me to read their names.
The defendants are Ains Soto, Liz Soto, Savannah Batten, Megan Morris, Autumn Hill, Mari Rueda, Benjamin Song, Zachary Evitz, and Des Estrada.
The prosecution tried to argue that this was a coordinated attack on an ICE facility in Prairieland, Texas, while the defense argued this was a noise demonstration protest outside of this detention facility last summer on the night of July 4th.
After protesters threw fireworks and vandalized property, DHS personnel called local police for assistance.
One officer arrived, drew his handgun, and yelled, stop, at a person in all black clothes who was running away.
One of the defendants, B. Song, then yelled, get to the rifles, before firing toward the officer with an AR-15, hitting him in the neck.
Song fired 11 times.
The officer returned fire three times.
Song then fled the scene.
Most of the defendants were arrested in the days after the attacks, some that night near the facility, though Song camped out hiding in the woods overnight and evaded capture for 11 days with the help of others.
Many of those who assisted Song evade capture after the shooting pled guilty to providing material support to terrorists.
On the first day of this trial, the judge declared a mistrial because one of the defense attorneys wore a shirt featuring civil rights leaders.
A week into the trial, U.S.
District Court Judge Mark Pittman ruled that defense attorneys could not argue that the defendants, including the accused shooter, were acting in self-defense or the defense of others against unlawful force,
just because the officer had already drawn his handgun before Song fired.
The prosecutors compared this to Waco, and Judge Pittman ruled that the officer drawing and pointing his handgun at a fleeing suspect does not qualify as, quote, excessive as a matter of law because the officer did not actually use deadly force or shoot first.
Like if this were a civilian on civilian situation, the fact that he had drawn his gun, especially in Texas, would have been enough to at least argue self-defense.
But absolutely.
Police officers have the right to pull guns on whoever they want, whenever they want, pretty much so.
Yeah.
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