“Excessive Force” Precedent Exonerates ICE man?

Letter to Romans: Someone tell the paid protesters the US Supreme Court already in 1989 exonerated the ICE agent killing Renee Good. The reasonableness of “excessive force,” the Supremes ruled, is judged in the nano second the agent saw Good’s car accelerate toward him.

The Fox News interview with a former Secret Service & ICE agent, Timothy Miller, set the stage: As the Supremes would and/or will, “Think about an agent standing literally within a foot of the front bumper of a car, center of the front bumper, and now the car accelerates … That vehicle is even more deadly than a gun.” No need to tell the shooter in this case who last year had been dragged by another not so good protester 300 feet, requiring “dozens of stitches.” Regardless of whether Good was “fleeing” her arrest or “trying” to hit the agent, HER intent is not at issue, but the agent’s mindset is. Various videos have clearly shown Good’s car hitting him a second after being shot. And, said Miller, “the agent had split seconds to decide whether maybe he’s going to live or die.”

Again, that key Supreme Court precedent in Graham v Connor, tied the legal definition of the use of excessive force by any officer to the Fourth Amendment’s “objective reasonableness” standard and not a subjective or Due Process one. In short, officers in the line of duty and under duress are to be judged by their decision-making in the brief moments or seconds of a potentially deadly encounter, not by hindsight or liberals’ assumptons.

Davd Soul