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Obamas call fatal shooting by fed agent a 'wake-up call

Obamas call fatal shooting by fed agent a 'wake-up call - Lemmy.ca

>“These unprecedented tactics – which even the former top lawyer of the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration has characterized as embarrassing, lawless and cruel – have now resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens,” the Obamas said. > >The Obamas accused the Trump administration of “escalating” the tension in Minneapolis by offering the public explanations of the shootings of Pretti and Renee Good “that aren’t informed by any serious investigation – and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence.”

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z3rOR0ne Jan 25

One of my earliest wake up calls was when a certain president didn’t outright dismantle the Patriot Act, allowing illegal privacy invasion policies on American citizens to continue and have now made the life of ICE officers a lot easier.

I wonder who that president was…

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lmmarsano

when a certain president didn’t outright dismantle the Patriot Act

because presidents and not congress do that? cool willful ignorance of government roles & powers.

@lemmy.ml

of course

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ianonavy Jan 27

Obama could have vetoed the PATRIOT extension act, and yet he signed it in 2010, and then again 2011, and then in 2015 he signed the USA Freedom Act, which replaced mass surveillance with “targeted surveillance”. And I’m no law expert, but in my view with the current federal government “targeted” does not seem to mean very much with respect to actions by the US government toward its citizens.