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Excerpts from the New York Times Report:

• Days after a federal immigration agent shot at Phillip Brown, a U.S. citizen, last October at a busy commercial intersection in Washington, D.C., a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security claimed Mr. Brown had made a “deliberate attempt” to run officers down with his car. Mr. Brown, 33, was arrested, charged with a felony — fleeing from law enforcement — and spent three days in jail.
• In court, however, the case against Mr. Brown quickly unraveled as a judge found that the government failed to present any evidence supporting its claims. The judge dismissed the charges and said the agent had fired his weapon “for reasons that are completely unclear to me.”

Mr. Brown’s case is among the 16 shootings by on-duty federal immigration agents patrolling in U.S. cities and towns over the past year, including those that took the lives of Minnesota protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

IndieDems Comment:

Further conclusive evidence of the Trump Administration’s utter contempt for civil rights and the sheer criminality that suffuses its ranks, to the extent that it surpasses the lawlessness brought to us by Nixon and Watergate. The Republican Party poses a greater threat to the survival of democracy under the rule of law than any foreign country ever did. The Republican betrayal of America is greater than that of Benedict Arnold.

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From the New York Times:

• Sedition accusation: President Trump accused a half-dozen Democrats of sedition — “punishable by DEATH” — on Thursday after the lawmakers implored members of the military to reject any illegal orders they may receive.

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IndieDems comment: Trump exponentially escalates GOP war on democracy and the Constitution.

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