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Frankly, I do not give a fuck. Civilians on the sidewalk being assholes is normal even for regular police ops. The ICE people earn a 100k$/year of taxpayer money, the 'libtards' on the sidewalk do not. You will forgive me for holding the people with the government paychecks and badges to higher standards than the others.
Are you suggesting that they were committing a felony, so that they are guilty of felony murder?
Hm, MN seems to have a rather broad felony murder law](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.19):
With felony being very broadly defined:
The trade-off is that you only get 2nd degree murder, which does not have a minimum mandatory sentence. So what felony do you think the people yelling at ICE from the sidewalk might be found guilty off?
Of course. Infinitely high standards for ICE agents, whoopsie-daisie we accidentally frauded $10 billion for welfare agents.
Fairness says right-wingers can act like this at every Democrat employed by the state of Minnesota, right? Their offices are paid for by the tax-payers, so they should have no expectation to privacy or not having people scream the most insane, hateful obscenities in their faces every minute they're on the clock.
Maybe if Nick and Dave are literally filming every single form that they fill out, we'll finally get a handle on all the fraud and corruption.
And obviously, if any of them is ever less than perfectly professional about the process, they get fired immediately.
As a principled first amendment fan, i think that you should be able to scream whatever the fuck you want at cops at any time.
Public defenders too then, right?
More or less, yes.
Props on the consistency.
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I do not endorse this personally, but presumably if you started with the driver violating 18 USC 111, which is elevated to a felony through the use of violence, and could prove direct incitement by the protestors under 18 USC 2, that would theoretically get you there.
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