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sl8

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Fri Oct 16, 2020, 07:06 AM Oct 2020

Legal Experts Torch President of the United States for Bragging About 'Extrajudicial Killing' ...

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Legal Experts Torch President of the United States for Bragging About ‘Extrajudicial Killing’ of ‘100% Antifa’ Murder Suspect

COLIN KALMBACHER
Oct 15th, 2020, 5:25 pm

President Donald Trump boasted about the killing of Michael Forest Reinoehl during a campaign rally on Thursday. Critics and legal experts immediately condemned the speech as a glorification of political violence and an attack on the U.S. Constitution.




“We sent in the U.S. Marshals, took 15 minutes and it was over,” Trump said to wild cheers. “We got him. They knew who he was, they didn’t want to arrest him and 15 minutes [sic] that ended.”

Federal defense attorney Tor Ekeland offered a blunt assessment.

“First degree murder,” he said via Twitter.

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Legal Experts Torch President of the United States for Bragging About 'Extrajudicial Killing' ... (Original Post) sl8 Oct 2020 OP
Buried the lede: Federal defense attorney Ekeland offered a blunt assessment: "First Degree Murder" hlthe2b Oct 2020 #1
Thanks. Added to OP. sl8 Oct 2020 #2
Amy Goodman covered this a few days ago, wnylib Oct 2020 #3

hlthe2b

(102,276 posts)
1. Buried the lede: Federal defense attorney Ekeland offered a blunt assessment: "First Degree Murder"
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 07:08 AM
Oct 2020

wnylib

(21,464 posts)
3. Amy Goodman covered this a few days ago,
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 07:27 AM
Oct 2020

on Democracy Now.

She reported on witnesses who stated that the marshalls never announced who they were, made no arrest attempt. They said the marshalls began shooting, without a word, the moment the car pulled up. Reinoehl was sitting on a curb, eating a candy snack.

It was a mob style execution.

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