“We investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate & that is not the case here, it wasn’t the case when it happened, & it’s not the case today,” #ToddBlanche insisted. “If circumstances change, & there’s something that we do need to investigate around that shooting or any other shooting, we will,” he said, adding, “but we are not going to bow to pressure from the media, bow to pressure from politicians.”
[what about pressure from the people?]
“We don’t just go out & investigate every time an officer is forced to 'defend himself' against somebody or putting his life in danger,” #ToddBlanche, formerly Trump’s personal atty, said. The #Trump admin began asserting immediately after the killing that #RenéeGood was a “rioter” who committed an “act of domestic terrorism,” continuing a long pattern of responding to deadly tragedies by making baseless & false claims.
#law #LegalEthics #DOJ #FBI #OathOfOffice #murder #UseOfForce #MafiaState
In an interview on FauxNews Sunday, US DAG #ToddBlanche told Shannon Bream that the #FBI is not, nor are they planning to, investigate #JonathanRoss — the #ICE agent who shot & killed #RenéeGood in her car in #Minneapolis earlier this month.
#law #LegalEthics #OathOfOffice #StateSponsoredTerrorism #Trump #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/fbi-ice-jonathan-ross-renee-good-todd-blanche/
#TIL - A Congressman was once sworn in on a #Superman comic book.
Some on the right are outraged that #Mamdani took his oath of office on a #Quran . But at least three #NYC Mayors have been sworn in on a #Torah , several elected officials have used only a copy of the Constitution, and Donald never touched a Bible at all when swearing in for this last term.
In 2023, California Congressman Robert Garcia (D) outdid them all. He took his #OathOfOffice on a #Superman comic book. It was placed in a stack of items that meant a lot to him, including a photo of his late parents and his citizenship certificate. It was a rare copy of Action Comics # 1 (first appearance of Superman) from the Library of Congress, so it did have historical significance.
As a Superman fan myself, I know he was taking advantage of the opportunity to hold a copy of that treasure in his hands for just a minute, and I completely endorse the idea. Buying his own copy would have set him back millions of dollars, but that brief moment of "geeking out" was free, thanks to our National Archives.
#MayorMamdani #ZohranMamdani #NY #DCU #DCcomics #NewYorkCity #ActionComics1 #SwearingInCeremonies #Religion #FreedomOfReligion
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