Subject: Re: Philly Police Chief Claims She'll be Arresting Any Federal Agent Wearing a Mask
Rhino <
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2026-01-10 9:09 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
Gonna sit back and pop some popcorn for this one.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/2009954599965499392/pu/vid/avc1/1434x1080/uHIzLe-MUeaGGVri.mp4
Does this meet the statutory definition of insurrection yet? We've got a >police chief insisting she will arrest ICE agents for doing their jobs, >contrary to the laws of the nation, based on her own sense of morality. >She's also declaring that Renee Goode was killed without justification
which must surely be concerning to the ICE agent's lawyer. She's a long
way outside of her responsibilities as a police chief at the very least >weighing in on a case from another jurisdiction.
I agree with very little of this.
Her reaction is over-the-top as this is the current strategy of reacting
to Trump's antics in kind. There is no useful political rhetoric. As a
police chief, if she's reacting to politics with her own political and unconstitutional nonsense, she's unprofessional.
Using police to carry out a political strategy, which is what Trump has
been doing with ICE and CPB agents doing show of force and creating
videos, is outrageous. The response to unconstitutional federal policing
cannot be unconstitutional local policing.
But yes, one may have to adjust local policing based on foreign events.
There has been an attempt to certify a legal class of plaintiffs who
have been victims of unconstitutional policing from Trump's tactics of
frequent tear gassing and similar aggressive tactics intended to rile up
the confrontations, and not using basic crowd control methods. The suit
is on trial in eastern subdistrict of northern Illinois district,
Chicago. Well, trial judges keep issuing orders in equity, various kinds
of injunctions, that 7th circuit, also Chicago, routinely overturn as
the Roberts court has not been allowing the use of equity to avoid
trials on the merits plus making it more difficult for interested
parties to sue by narrowing standing.
The parties who tried to get the class certified were aware that they
were going to get reversed at circuit and filed a motion to withdraw to
avoid setting precedent. Well, in the light of Goode's murder, the
trial court judge would not allow the motion be withdrawn. She
wants to force a trial upon the merits but I have no idea if a federal
trial court judge can force the adversaries into a trial that neither
side wishes to pursue.
You've got to love the irony of the judge calling the bluff of forcing a full-blown trial to create a record that will then force appellate
courts to consider and set precedent without being dismissed out of
hand.
Let me explain this better. In trying to get a class certified, the
class action attorney's clients are people to whom facts and
circumstances apply but have not retained the attorney. The judge can
now point to a high profile case, Goode's murder. These are your
clients! Now, represent them in court.
Class actions are expensive and time consuming to prepare, several million dollars minimum. Your basic civil rights attorney is practicing poverty
law. These guys were never planning to go to trial, utterly lacking the resources to do so.
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