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So basically another illegal act that can be thrown at him only to be ignored: manipulating evidence. Although to be fair, hard to manipulate what is already out there, so I don't think it's likely he will.
The evidence is the 10 videos all showing the same thing. ICE is guilty of murder. The videos are all over the Internet, what could they destroy? Other than the name of the murderer there isn't anymore needed to convict.
Bullet casings, for one. More than one person shot him.
Felony murder rule. If you take part in a felony and someone dies as an outcome, you can be charged with murder.
It's how getaway drivers for gas station robberies get convicted of murder when things go south and their buddy shoots the clerk.
The firearm they claim to have taken off him. The photo they posted is old and literally off Google Images.
The CNN video shows them disarming him and it not being in the beating area when the murder happens
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/25/us/video/minneapolis-ice-shooting-alex-pretti-visual-analysis-digvid
That picture might not be that gun, but there is proof they should have a gun in their possession.
Do you know the identity of the shooter? Cause they're not just going to tell you.
Wait... You have to have a court tell the federal government to not destroy/alter/plant evidence?
How.. how is that a thing? Should'nt that just happen normally?
Law has never really accounted for bad faith actors from the prosecution side. They most likely won't enforce it either. We're very quickly finding out just how much laws won't help us.
Yes.
But there are no consequences so they will ignore the court order and destroy any and all evidence they can, just as they did for Renee Good’s killer, the murderer Jonathan Ross.
It's not quite that bad. Accessory after the fact for murder can result in the same sentence as the murder itself. So some of these ICE pigs, they could face life in prison if they have destroyed evidence poorly.
Of course it depends on the details.
Why would they want to destroy evidence?
I thought this was "the most transparent administration in history"?
Transparent to them means they can be openly racist, sexist, and general xenophobic cunts.
What you are looking for is honest. They are not honest
I think they like to gaslight about the "transparent" thing, because according to them, Biden was not transparent because he wasn't doing a presser every five minutes. Donvict doesn't talk to the press to provide info, he does it because he is a narcissist.
Gaslighting about transparency is a sour kind of irony
Transparently corrupt.
Even if they didn't destroy evidence what is going to happen? Congress seems fine with the current set of events.
The fact that this had to be said is ridiculous. America is so fucked.
The fact that it had to be said, says that it's already been destroyed.
It's all going to get worse before it gets better. This is the cycle of history, we're in the pit of the trough.
So the interesting thing will be that, look, the feds are going to ignore this. They have and will delete data and burn evidence. There's a name for that crime: accessory after the fact.
On the one hand, of course contempt charges don't matter to feds who don't care. On the other hand, the penalty for accessory to murder can be as long as the penalty for murder itself. So it's possible that a half dozen feds could get locked up for life, depending on who did what and when.
And there is no statute of limitations for any of this. They can never feel like they got away with it.
Cute that he thinks they'll obey the order.
We don't know that he does.
Evidence isn't necessary when the law doesn't matter
Is this not covered by standing law? When it is ever legally allowed to alter or destroy evidence?
Is the distinction more that typically this would be a slap on the wrist for law enforcement, but the TRO makes it explicit that there would be consequences?
It's more that the judge wants the punishment to be greater than the typical punishment for tampering with evidence. When the victim is dead the law tends to give undue credence to the statements of the survivor as there is only 2nd hand testimony provided for the prosecution. We should interpret it as a judge making a stand and vowing harsh penalties and the supreme court/appeals should interpret it as the judge making it much harder to overturn the eventual decision.
Very clarifying. Thank you
But will that stop them? Once properly deleted, the judges words become worthless.
Why would this have to be specified? Obviously the law doesn't matter.
I would like to think that Judges, especially those leaning Republican, are starting to think that some people might start thinking they’re complicit. So maybe they want to keep heads on shoulders.
Probably waiting on orders and a stipend before they mysteriously change there mind and throw their hands on the air as there was nothing they could do.
I mean. That's just ignorant at this point...
Even the judges trump was placing for the federalist society a decade ago are turning on trump, and have been this whole term.
It's not enough, we need more out of court systems. But this is something, and it is real.
Like, shits fucking serious. We need to be honest about what's happening
They...will...do...it...anyway....
Fuck it's so frustrating watching one side pretend the rule of law still means anything.