Who Goes ICE 3? Kavanaugh Stops and charges dropped

CBP Drive-by Pepper Spray attack in Berwyn*

“I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys,” Charles Exum

Remember that woman an ICE agent shot up after claiming she lead a Mad Max style convoy of 10 vehicles to box them in and attack them?  Well, her case and several others have been dropped in court;

It is a stunning comedown. Prosecutors moved to abandon on Thursday three cases brought against protestors, two of which DHS described as being brought against “domestic terrorists” as part of a national media campaign to portray the situation in Chicago as demanding a military deployment.

Now, the cases have come to nothing amid increasing scrutiny from the courts. 

In the case of Marimar Martinez, the 30-year old Chicagoan shot five times in October by a Border Patrol officer, DHS officials accused her of being part of a convoy of “10 cars” that “rammed” and “boxed” agents in. Those allegations were contradicted by an affidavit filed by federal agents in the case and evidence that was introduced later.

The motion to drop the charges against Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, another protester, comes at a critical time in the case.

It appears Trump Department of Injustice didn't want any more texts from Border Patrol Asshole Charles Exum's broadcast in the courtroom.  Especially, because there appears to be a text chain of additional communications between Exum and other yet unidentified Agents involved in this shooting incident which have not been made public.  

Back when I started the old timers always told us younger officers never say (or text) anything you don't want shown in big bold letters on a giant poster board in Court.  I know from experience these text chains were likely a seething cauldron of grotesque sexist racist violent garbage.  And, of course, after his disastrous November 5th testimony,

“This incident is so unlike anything that we have trained for, this would almost equate to our counter vehicle assault training, which typically takes place out of country, in cartel controlled areas of Mexico, or combat situations,” Exum testified.

Get!  The fuck!  Outta here! With this bullshit!  Acting like this is a enemy contact drill in fucking Iraq.  Besides which this statement is an absolute and total lie.  If we weren't for the fact fascist trash like Exum are conducting unconstitutional actions across the Nation this would be a fucking sick joke.

On one level it's good these wholly false and malicious prosecutions are being stopped by the Courts, as this is the bedrock of Due Process, something the MAGA Cult and the Treasonous Trump regime loathe.  I've been pleasantly pleased and glad that during this fascist reimagining of the United States;  Grand Juries, Courts, and Judges are not laying down and acquiescing to the Republican march towards an Authoritarian State.  Of course, these stunning losses in courts shows how slap-dash, incompetent, and deceitful everyone in the Trump admin actually is...    

But, Traitor Trump being a "showman" knows, and has instructed his minions, the Act of the Arrest is the most important aspect of their actions.  Besides placing the arrestee into peril and distress bigoted white Trump supporters equate arrests with absolute guilt.  And with the pageantry of slick videos Trump and his cadre of criminal co-conspirators know they can simply lie about the incidents, Faux News will dutifully pick up and broadcast the Administration's lies, and rightwing podcast propagandists will spread it throughout social media until the Trump lies are the narrative.

Another case dropped was against Air Force veteran Dana Briggs.  I watched the video of Briggs unlawful arrest by the ICE Gestapho at Broadview, in which the fully armed and camo-decked out ICE forces advanced on Briggs and other protestors.  Briggs's shoved and stumbles backwards falling down.  At which point you can clearly see what goes through that guy's head, 'Fuck!' so he reaches down to help Briggs up and a second ICEhole helps but when the third fascist grabs at Briggs arm, as Briggs is giving his phone to someone else, Briggs slapped one of those old person chiding slaps the 3rd guys hand away.

At that point the ICE agents conduct a full-force felony hog tie arrest on Briggs.  The Department of Homeland Terrorism wrote up the charge thusly,

Briggs allegedly made physical contact with an agent’s arm while the agent attempted to extend the safety perimeter around the facility. As well, he was verbally abusive towards agents.

Oh no he had used bad words!!!  It's cynically hilarious for  MAGA Chuds to claim verbal abuse when their living deity routinely calls for the murder of liberals, protestors, and Democratic politicians and MAGA dismisses as Har Har Har you have TDS because of Mean Tweets!!!

Of course, Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes fortunately pointed out how disingenuous, how unserious yet extremely serious all these charges brought by the criminal Trump regime are;

“The court cannot help but note just how unusual and possibly unprecedented it is for the U.S. attorney’s office in this district to charge so hastily that it either could not obtain the indictment in the grand jury or was forced to dismiss upon a conclusion that the case is not provable, in repeated cases of a similar nature.

“A ‘no bill’ vote by a grand jury was virtually unheard of in this district until Operation Midway Blitz,” Fuentes wrote Thursday. “The last and only one the court can remember was from the early part of this century. Then, in the past two months, at least three have occurred.”

“Any responsible federal prosecutor knows this,” Fuentes wrote. “Any responsible federal prosecutor knows that federal charges, or any actions by the United States attorney directed at the citizenry, must be undertaken with the utmost care.”

*- Video captured what appeared to be pepper spray attack by a federal agent into Rafael Veraza's car.  He, his wife, and their 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed by federal agents as they were leaving a Cicero Sam's Club parking lot on Saturday. said he was just pulling out of the Cicero Sam's Club parking lot with his window rolled down.

Let me tell you, this kind of callous abuse of authority and unlawful use of force was exactly what Blackwater mercenaries did in Iraq.  Again we see Global War on Terrorism tactics being used on American soil; fascism is just colonialism turned inwards...