"Unusually swift trial" my foot, the feds case had fuck all evidence and you can't really fool a jury with that if said jury is predisposed to hate you already. Fucking hell...
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Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.” With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared and nobody has been convicted.
Bovino bloviating and going nowhere. What an asshole he is.
Hmmm does that mean if they get shot for breaking and entering, would people be acquitted due to them breaking the 4th amendment?
Jury nullification is a thing. Even if there are no mitigating legal factors, a jury can acquit if they disagree with the law.
We're going to be seeing a lot of jury nullification in the future.
And a lot of ignoring the rulings as well.
Lets see...
- They're not getting judicial warrants, and they don't have actual exigent circumstances that would allow it.
- They're not identifying themselves.
- they're wearing masks to obscure their identities.
- They're heavily armed.
- they're killing people, maiming people, abducting people, including children, and torturing them.
Certainly seems to qualify as reasonable self defense to me.
That said, please consider the consequences of violent action. They will respond with excessive and overwhelming force and not just kill you. I'm not saying don't do it. but consider the risks, and not just the risks to yourself, but every one who lives there.
I'd acquit the fuck out of someone for doing that.
Just keep it to yourself if called to serve.
That assumes that they are not killed by the barrage of bullets that would result from their attempts at self-defense. And even then, the DOJ would let things move as slowly as possible through the courts. The accused would not get bail, so they’d sit in jail for potential years before the trial would be concluded.
They want someone to fight back, so that they can escalate things even more. This not to say that we should not fight back. It may come to a point where we are all faced with such a situation. I’d like to think that I would stand tall and do my part, but man, the prospect of being sent to a men’s prison definitely gives me pause.
A jury sees through the Trumped-up charges.
Bovini should just do us all a favor and prove how fearless and tough he is by leaping off a building.
Jury: come back when you've got some results.