George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley recently appeared on FOX News to talk about the ICE shooting in Minnesota. Turley had plenty of criticism for Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
Frey has said that he wants to be included in the investigation of the shooting, but as Turley notes, Frey was one of the first to declare the incident a murder, making him one of the last people who should expect to be involved in the process.
Turley also suggests that the videos and legal precedent are on the side of the ICE agent in this case.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
INGRAHAM: Oh, yes, they were already convicting, they are convicting that ICE officer. Here to discuss Jonathan Turley, constitutional law expert, Fox News Contributor. Jonathan, Frey is demanding that the state be involved. Walz is accusing, though, agents of contaminating the scene, the crime scene. So what law takes precedent here — precedence here? And are they within their right to say, we must be involved?JONATHAN TURLEY, GWU LAW PROFESSOR: No, they can ask to be involved, but they have no basis upon to insist on being involved. This is a federal investigation involving a federal shooting, and they do not have to be involved. I don’t expect they will be. And possibly the worst possible person to call for that type of cooperation is Mayor Frey, who soon after the shooting announced that this officer was a murderer and used today to say that he really wasn’t injured.Now, I haven’t been in his kitchen, and I haven’t seen Frey’s fridge, but this does not strike me as a kitchen encounter. When you look at that video, it is a very significant collision with this officer. And the video, most importantly captures something that’s missing on the internet as people slow down this video to the point that it seems like these officers could have gotten coffee and debated what they were going to do next. I mean, this really captures how it was a fraction of a second. The key here is to look at this from the perspective of the officer, the motivations of Good do not matter. It’s her actions that matter.So the question is, what did the officer see in that fraction of a second? That standard favors the officer. Now, we’re going to have a lot of investigation going forward, but people need to be clear what the standard is. To say that the officer was reasonable, does not necessarily mean that the officer was right. You could still disagree with the use of lethal force. But the question is, was this within the parameters, the discretion of the officer? That standard favors the officer, in my view, from this video.
Watch the segment below:
Although it’s not included in this video, Turley went on to say that Democrats will try to ride this wave of rage right into the midterms, which is exactly correct. This has become the left’s playbook.
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