Ian Millhiser

Patrick Boyd engineered.

And Dustin DeSoto and Andrea Lopez-Gruzado checked the facts.

I'm Noelle King.

It's Today Explained.

Three ICE agents that were in the car with me immediately started taunting me.

The driver of the car said, you guys got to stop obstructing us.

That's why that lesbian is dead.

The whole point of legal accountability is to deter people from doing bad things.

This isn't the only reason I don't break into my neighbor's home, but one reason I don't break into my neighbor's home is I know that if I do, I will be arrested.

Or for that matter, they recently put a speeding camera on the road outside my home.

I drive slower now.

And the reason why is because I know that if I scooch over the speed limit, that camera is going to catch me and I will face consequences for it, legal consequences for it.

And this is a question that the Supreme Court has been wrestling with for quite some time

is when do we want law enforcement officers to feel like if they behave badly, they will fear legal consequences?

We know it's pretty splintered.

So normally the way something like this would work is that federal law enforcement officers would work with the state police in order to determine what happened and if any criminal charges need to be brought.

There are several reasons why the federal investigation is looking like it's not serious.

One is that they appear to have kicked the state police out of the investigation.

The state is –

no longer allowed to cooperate with the federal government.