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In reply to the discussion: New angle shows Good blocking the street and honking before the shooting. [View all]Prairie Gates
(7,216 posts)I don't know that they have. They have surely dragged plenty of people out of cars and made other on-the-scene arrests for what they perceive to be impeding (nowadays they even scream out the statute as they do it or threaten it: 18 USC 111). But I have never heard of them coming to somebody's house later and claiming that they impeded.
The current ICE use of 18 USC 111 is to terrorize and attack protestors and documenters, period. Now, it is in fact a countermeasure, because protestors have been very effective in blocking ICE's driving paths and otherwise obstructing them. Thousands of ordinary people have engaged in this form of civil disobedience all over the country.
It's pretty clear that Miller has ordered ICE to be more aggressive against these protest tactics, and this shooting is the result. So I think you're absolutely wrong; this was not a case of "rage." This was an effect of the new policy: be extremely aggressive with car blockades, and shoot if you have to. I have no doubt that that is the order the came down from Miller that led to this homicide. This wasn't rage. It was cold blooded policy-driven murder.