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To: Qone0 who wrote (1582134)	1/8/2026 4:53:51 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586653

Interesting, Qone0. I personally don't think the defense's case is a lost cause. (But as Bill keeps reminding me for some reason, I'm not a legal expert.) In any case, let me noodle on the three points made in that post: ?"I could argue shot number one and hope for an acquittal or a hung jury ??but I can't get there on shots 2 and 3" This is a weak point. Any competent defense attorney will point out that officers are trained to keep firing once the split second decision to use lethal force is made. And they are trained to keep firing until the threat is ended. Shots two and three are justified under that context because they happened in rapid succession after the first. ?"A jury will not get passed the turning of the wheels"This definitely destroys any assertion that the victim intended to run over the agent. (It's also the reason why the spokesholes at ICE need to STFU, not to mention Trump's own cocksuckers.) But if I were the defense attorney, I would point out that the ICE agent couldn't have known that the tires were turned away from him. He saw the car lunge forward and immediately assumed that his life was in danger. (Yeah, he put himself in that risky position. I don't know how to argue that one away, except maybe that it's somehow standard law enforcement practice.) "Denying medics throws self defense out the window" Yeah, that's a bad look, but I'd argue that the ICE agents didn't have any medical training, and that's not the ICE agent's fault. Plus they couldn't risk letting some random stranger who claimed to be a doctor near the victim because, er, it's against public policy or it risks further aggravating the victim's already serious injuries, blah blah blah. Legal liability, whatever. Tenchusatsu