Hoo boy...
This is NOT going to end well...
A federal judge on Friday barred federal agents in Minneapolis from arresting peaceful protesters, or using nonlethal munitions and crowd control tools against them.
The 80-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez, a Biden appointee who sits in Minneapolis, lands amid an increasingly confrontational dynamic between the Trump administration and Minnesota officials who have accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents of stoking fear and violence on local streets. And it comes a week after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good.
Full article, HERE from Politico.com
Personally, I don’t think they thought this one all the way through. She figured she could slap an order out there and ‘protect’ the protesters, but IMHO, this will do nothing but ramp up LARPing by the protesters. They will get more aggressive, thinking they will now be ‘safe’ from the agents.
But what this does is to take away the agent’s non-lethal options, and if you don’t have non-lethal remedies, what’s next?
Unless the MPD steps up and starts protecting the agents, it has the potential to get REALLY ugly.
The agents will have to use their weapons to defend themselves, and they won’t be using rubber bullets...
And then what happens???
Anybody want to guess?
You act as if they're not trying to make ICE look like the Iranian regimes in their attempt to get a "Boston Commons" moment. They're trying to make that dumb lesbian LARPer look like Crispus Attucks in Black Widow's body, but it's failing because it was clear she was in the process of attempted second degree vehicular manslaughter. This judge should be removed from the bench immediately for clear misuse of his position for terrorists and overstepping his authority. Until black robes get traded in for orange jumpsuits THIS WILL NOT STOP HAPPENING.
There is an option for rogue judges, and that is impeachment. However, no member of Congress has the fortitude to vote to remove a judge short of high crimes. I was researching the founding fathers and learned that one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence eventually became a Supreme Court Justice. And that Justice went thoroughly rogue, forcing grand juries to remain empaneled until they convicted an individual, among other crap. The House voted to impeach, but the Senate didn't. And that was around the time of Jefferson's Presidency.
Frankly, I'd enjoy seeing Tom's option put into play. And if you see the people, whose actions led to this situation, trying to flee the jurisdiction, send them back to deal with it. "You made your bed, judge. You sleep in it."