Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley told her fellow members of the US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that a motion she was introducing during a hearing was “pretty straightforward”: The committee, she said, should conduct oversight regarding a federal agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a woman in Minneapolis who was killed in her car earlier in the day.
But the motion failed, with every Republican on the panel voting against it.
Pressley (D-Mass.) introduced the motion during a hearing regarding a fraud scandal in the state, hours after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot Good, who was in the driver’s seat of her car as multiple officers approached her. Good was acting as a legal observer, according to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), monitoring ICE actions following the Trump administration’s surge of federal agents into Minnesota, in part to target members of the Somali community.
Every Republican in the country simultaneously orgasmed when they heard about a woman getting murdered by ICE. Why would they want any oversight when everything is working as they intend?
But damn did they cry when the annointed Kirk died. They don’t give a fuck about anyone who is not rich, white, male, straight, in shape, and secretly on Grindr.
And they were responsible for that murder, too.
False flag! He was a commie liberal trannie lover! Narfwasjdndikddm!!!
I mean, Kirk was pretty doughy…
Good day to be a dry cleaner.
Good day to be those dry cleaners’ therapists.
They’ve got a pretty good DA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Moriarty
trump will pardon anything federal, this needs handled on a local level. Not just for this one killing, but to set the standard that federal agents are still subject to state laws and can’t just do whatever the fuck they want in states that don’t want them there…
We kind of fought an entire civil war already when Lincoln refused to do it for slave raiding parties to Northern State.
Annnnnnnd they cancelled the local investigation due to FBI fuckery…
FBI is blocking access to evidence so the local investigators said they can’t continue…
I’m hopeful that a civil lawsuit would succeed, but I think the officer will escape criminal liability because federal courts get to determine scope of duty/egregiousness of conduct before state courts can touch federal officers.
That said, it’s still worth going after the guy criminally. He deserves prison and the AG should give it a shot.
You’re following rules no one else does and only wanting to try if it’s guaranteed to succeed.
Throw his ass in jail for murder with no bail
He can beat the charges, but he’ll never get the months/years of his life back while awaiting trial
Make it so in the back of every ICE agent’s head there’s a constant reminder: “There could be consequences”.
Regardless of how we accomplish it, nothing gets fixed till that thought is always in their minds.
You’re following rules no one else does and only wanting to try if it’s guaranteed to succeed.
That’s categorically an opposite of what “that said, it’s still worth going after the guy criminally. He deserves prison and the AG should give it a shot” means, right?
I said try even if it’s not guaranteed. My contribution to our conversation was opining on the likelihood of success.
Throw his ass in jail for murder with no bail
I’d love this, and think it’s unlikely.
He can beat the charges, but he’ll never get the months/years of his life back while awaiting trial
Make it so in the back of every ICE agent’s head there’s a constant reminder: “There could be consequences”.
Regardless of how we accomplish it, nothing gets fixed till that thought is always in their minds.
Yes to all of this!
We are in civil war and only one side is fighting
The other side has convinced itself that if they don’t fight back the civil war won’t actually happen.
Every Republican is a murderer. Every Republican is a fascist. Every Republican must be held accountable for these crimes, atrocities, and horrors. The leaders, the sycophants, the members, all of them. Every last one.
Republicans are all brainwashed cultists or psychopaths and it’s rulings like this that prove it; not one votes for it? There’s no reason for that other than the descriptors I used.
Anyone proudly identifying as Republican deserves scrutiny and sideeye. They have no place in leadership.
Forty paid days off in a row, politically refusing to swear in newly elected member, early chamber recess, health care through the roof, yet another war without a war powers, and not giving a fuck about the constituency.
The House and the Senate are impotent, disconnected, and rich.
Well . . . yeah.
These people SHOULD BE ARRESTED
Occupation Government. Anyone who believes this is ‘normal and proper’ is beyond help.
Yeah I was wondering how long it would take this audience to blame the Democrats for this.
One, two, three . . Three comments.
Every single comment here is blaming Republicans. What are you talking about?
I’m confident that Democrats will campaign on pursuing this investigation during their run for office, right? They won’t just hide behind “Thoughts and Prayers” and “I haven’t looked into it” mea culpas?
