ICE Agents Do Not Have 'Absolute Immunity'
An ICE agent is on the run after being criminally charged with two state felony counts for 2nd-degree assault with a dangerous weapon as Trump's thugs begin their Find Out stage.
We tried to warn them, but Trump didn’t pick the brightest people to enforce his brutal violence against critics, protesters, press, clergy, inflatables, refugees and undocumented immigrants. So now they’ve entered the beginning of the Find Out stage about that promised “absolute immunity.”
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Surprise, suckers! Absolute immunity doesn’t exist.
“There’s no such thing as absolute immunity, that’s just wrong. That’s not what the law said. If you charge a federal agent, they have the burden of proving that they were on duty essentially, and doing only what was necessary and proper in the course of their duties,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty told CNN’s Laura Coates.
In this case, according to the ICE agents, the agents were done with their shift and they were driving illegally in an unmarked vehicle on the side of the road when a car pulled over in front of them to signal to them to get back into the proper lane. The driver of the SUV then pulled up next to the two victims and pointed a gun at their heads.
“So our belief is, even if the agent should try to assert supremacy clause immunity in federal court, we will be able to overcome that because he was certainly not acting within the scope of his employment or doing only what was necessary and proper.”
They have not heard from DHS to see if they are cooperating.
Explaining why the two state felony counts for 2nd-degree assault with a dangerous weapon against ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., 35, was the first case being charged, Moriarty said this case started out as a 911 call by the victims, who stated that someone had waved a gun on them.
The state patrol investigated immediately, they found out that the unmarked car was at the Whipple Building. They interviewed the two ICE agents who were in the car.
Morgan, the driver who pulled the gun, claimed he feared for his life and others’ safety, so he pulled up alongside the vehicle and drew his Glock 19 firearm, identifying himself as police.
However, traffic camera footage shows the agent driving on the side of the freeway as the victims claimed, and shows the “incident.”
Moriarty explained they have all of the evidence needed to charge the agents, which is different from other cases of violence perpetrated by ICE agents, which were NOT investigated by law enforcement…
