LegalEagle

We've sort of grown inured to it, but they are not enforcing criminal law.

Even when they are enforcing immigration laws, which they are not right now, it is state-sponsored protest control of people exercising their First Amendment rights.

At best, they are enforcing regulatory and civil laws.

And there's no reason they should have firearms in the first place.

They, I don't even think, should have less lethals like pepper balls and they shouldn't be using tear gas and pepper spray and bear spray on protesters.

That's insane.

It would be as if we gave every postal worker and every person who delivers the mail, you know, an AR-15.

Their duties, and it's insane that they have been armed and are wearing flak jackets and are obviously wearing masks for no other reason than to obscure their identity and prevent accountability.

Obviously, the shootings are unjustified, but the entire situation that recently...

Alex Preddy unfortunately found himself in and the woman next to him.

They should not have been pushed aside by these putative federal officers for exercising their First Amendment rights.

They should not have been restrained.

They should not have been pepper sprayed while they were restrained.

And of course, they should not have been shot and murdered while they were prone and restrained.

None of that.

The entire situation should not have happened.

3,000 ICE and CBP officers should not have been deployed to Minneapolis in the first place.

I will echo what some legal commentators have said.

This is basically stochastic terrorism.

If you send 3,000 untrained psychopaths with guns into a place where people are angry, where they are not effectuating the law, you don't know who's going to die, but you know that people are going to die.