Martin Costi
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64 appearances
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 27 Jan
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But Vance called the video evidence that the officer was in danger.
So there seems to be a real disconnect right now.
basic level of what the evidence means.
The standard is that the officer has to have an objectively reasonable perception that there's an imminent threat.
That's long been the standard.
What's interesting is recently, just in May, the Supreme Court amplified that a little bit in a case called Barnes v. Felix.
It says you have to look beyond just the split second of decision and look at the context of the situation.
taking into account perhaps what the officer did leading up to the situation, perhaps whether he or she decided to step out of the way.
And if these cases make it to court, I think that could become quite relevant here.
The number of people held by ICE at any one time has ballooned.
Right now it's about 66,000.
That's 70 percent higher than when President Trump took office.
But deaths have gone up more to about 30 for the year compared to 11 in 2024.
At Syracuse University, Austin Coker studies the immigration enforcement system, and he's troubled by some clusters of deaths.
ICE says in-custody deaths this year, quote, average less than 1%.
This is the lowest in history, unquote.
But it does not explain how that figure was calculated.
Martin Kosty, NPR News.
After Abrego Garcia was returned to the U.S., the government charged him with human smuggling while also seeking to deport him to a third country.
Now, in a filing, it says it wants to send him to Liberia, which it touts as a, quote, thriving democracy where English is spoken and the capital is named after a U.S.
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