ASPartOfMe wrote:
I am going bring up a few things that have not been brought up.
Very preliminary observations and prediction by non lawyer me:Ross should not be a ICE agent in the field. Last June he was involved in traffic stop where
was dragged and injured. So it is possible he felt threatened way out of proportion to what he actually was or maybe his preexisting mindset was a factor in putting him in the position to be injured in the earlier incident(the driver was convicted not him).
Good was an activist. Not all activists are Antifa. Her job was to observe ICE. We don’t know her politics so way to premature to call her a left wing activist. She married two guys, one of whom died then she married a women and evolved from humanitarian activism to political activism so there seems to have been some sort of significant change going on with her. If she was an observer why did she leave the scene with ICE all over her street? Who had the bright idea to yell “drive” with ICE agents surrounding her? She takes the answers to her grave. The above will matter politically not legally.
Ross will be indicted for murder. There will be an insanity defense. If the trial was held now he would be convicted. If it were up to a vote, he would be sentenced to being strung up to a tree and stoned to death. In two or three years or whenever this goes to trial and emotions have cooled who knows. As a state or local case the President can not pardon him. Any future Republican governor will. But with the FBI investigating it could become a federal case. If he is convicted SCOTUS will overturn it.
The thing is they didn't even need to surround her vehicle, there was room for them to go around, and she even tried to wave them through. There was zero reason for them to get out of their vehicle and go after her they could have easily drove around like she motioned with her arm.
Also shouting f**** b*** as the dead woman crashed into the pole does not really paint a picture of someone fearing for their life shooting because it was the only way to defend themself. Especially since he drew his gun before stepping in front of the slowly moving vehicle turning away from him and pulled the trigger.
And I can imagine the person(the wife of the woman I think) who yelled drive saw the gun or how aggressively they came up to the vehicle screaming at her and yanking her door to try and violently drag her out of the car and figured she could drive off before getting hurt. If masked gunmen came at my boyfriend like that I'd have probably screamed for him to drive to in the hopes he could get away from them before they harm him.
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