J.M. Cummings
🪂⛷⛵️🇺🇸🇺🇦 | OSINT & Defense Tech 💻🛰 | AI/ML 🤖 | Autonomy 🚀 | Liberal Hawk 🦅 | Former attorney 👨⚖️, former SWE 👨💻, current CEO 🤹 | Building an OSINT platform to expand public access to geospatial intelligence
- Ok? Guess I'm never visiting your shitty site again then
- We now know what shocks the conscience more than an unprovoked armed assault and kidnapping of an innocent passerby: summary execution of an innocent passersby (at least when recorded by many cameras). ICE will continue to escalate the violence and abuse our civil rights. Until we stop them.
- ICE strategy is simple: use violence to prompt protests, brutalize protestors to attract more protestors, and so on. Either until the available supply of protestors has been entirely brutalized or Trump decides he has sufficient pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act to mess with the mid-terms.
- ICE agents flaunt their disregard for DHS use of force policy, antagonize peaceful protestors, and routinely endanger bystanders with their heavy-handed incompetence. If we can't hold them accountable now, their smug sense of invulnerability will push them into ever more brazen civil rights abuses.
- Call your senators and tell them to end ICE abuse. Tell them to extend 42 USC §1983 to cover federal law enforcement officers so they can be personally sued for egregious civil rights violations, just like state LEOs already can be. Bottom line: ICE escalation won't stop until we stop it.
- The Gabbard whistleblower complaint has been withheld from Congress for ~32 weeks. By law, the IC inspector general and DNI have 3 weeks after receiving a complaint to transmit it to the House and Senate intel committees. 32 weeks is a helluva lot more than 3. Yet more Trump admin lawlessness.
- This checks out. Trump has been too busy wrecking the country to traffic children
- Our ICE problems are fundamentally about the complete lack of accountability under federal law for federal law enforcement officers who violate our civil rights. We need to reduce procedural barriers like qualified immunity while extending §1983 to cover violations by federal as well as state LEOs.
