Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was ‘sprayed in the face’ and ‘pushed around’ as agents descended on restaurant
Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva says federal agents fired pepper spray at her and others protesting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Arizona.
In a video posted on social media Friday, Grijalva said roughly 40 federal officers, most of them masked, pulled up in several vehicles for a raid at Taco Giro in Tucson, where a large group of demonstrators had gathered in the street.
There, she was “sprayed in the face by a very aggressive agent” and “pushed around by others,” she said.
She also posted footage of a heavily armored officer firing pepper spray towards her and others in the crowd as she approaches agents and repeatedly tells them “you need to get out.” The footage also appears to show a pepper bullet hitting her feet.
Then use your powers in Congress to do something about it! Look folks if they can do that to our elected representatives without consequences then we are all fucked.
Motherfucker come for me they better bring body bags for themselves. This shit got to stop NOW.
It doesn’t even have to go that far. There is a no way that assault of an elected official is not some kind of high grade felony in Arizona.
Qualified immunity.
He can do whatever he wants, be charged and tried, and the only defense he needs is, “I was just doing my job.”
We need a constitutional convention to make some long overdue edits.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230520080201/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html
We just need the case reviewed. The 1982 SCOTUS was handed the wrong wording of section 1983 of the federal code since it was illegally edited in 1884 when the secretary “copied” The Congressional Record of 1881 into The Federal Register.
QI is already fully illegal according to Congress.
We’ve approached the time where the meaning of laws is more of a guideline towards our own actions. A law without official enforcement is just words on paper.
I think you normally get some serious time, but I bet you money nothing will happen to those agents that did this.
Is she not doing exactly that?
no. her bodyguards need to arrest and detain the nazis who shot at her.
Did she have bodyguards at the scene?
not sure. but she should.
No she posted it to social media. She could file charges attacking a member of Congress should get some serious prison time.
You know multi-tasking is a thing. There’s more than one person in the office that can work on stuff simultaneously. And they almost certainly have someone that posts these types of things to the social media accounts.
Quit acting like there is only one person and they can only do one thing at a time. You just look like an idiot.
Against whom? They were masked and otherwise unidentified.