Multiple videos providing indisputable evidence is enough to charge open murder. There is no doubt, federal agents do not have the authority to summarily execute citizens under false pretense, even if they justify it by assassinating their character and telling bold faced lies about their victim to justify it, a well worn tactic of our president and his ilk now being adopted moreso by all of our leaders up in every sector of society.

There is nothing to investigate. No reasonable person in good faith could on a presentation of the facts and evidence available to the public from day one, could say these weren’t murder, and in Ms Good’s case, rather premeditated at that. Perhaps 1st degree with Mr. Pretti as well.

Obviously it’s a well worn tactic to kill a state prosecution by doing a federal one and getting the state to defer to them, or getting a court to give it to the feds. That is how Epstein got let off with a solicitation of prostitution with house arrest after the Miami Herarld doggedly pulled the threads of raped victims leading to a fabric of international perversions to blackmail the powerful for Israeli intelligence, surely in league with the cia as they did nothing to stop it despite stopping that being their raison de etre.

That doesn’t excuse the State from doing their goddamned duty and covering their own citizens with the Shield of American Law! It’s also not certain the feds would be able to pre-empt any investigation, or make it double jeopardy. Mangione is facing federal and state charges stemming from the alleged introduction to justice to a mass murderer with one of the highest body counts in the country. Although it goes without saying he’s innocent, they needed a patsy so it didn’t look like someone got away with it, as the photos from the scene of the perpetrator do not match the photos of mangione. If the eyebrows don’t fit, you must acquit. All the “evidence,” is bullshit, a gun consistent with firing a 9 mm is a laughable statement insulting our intelligence, there are more of those in this country than people in the demographic group of the perpetrator. Having written something critical of health insurance during a period of increasing plutocratic tightening of control? They have nothing of substance, other than what they will manufacture and manufacture they will because they are the tools of a plutocracy seeking to kill liberal democracy in all but name and install a one party state, thinking they will still be able to control it.

But I digress. There was enough evidence to charge from day 1. It’s not only possible to charge legally and morally, it’s their duty. Under the precedent set here, a federal agent could accost the governor, then execute them, without charge, and claim that governor was the perpetrator, even if it was on video otherwise. Do you not see that? Do you not see the 10th amendment also refutes the federals ad hoc claim that now the feds are untouchable imperial owners of the states? As if we are theirs, not them ours. States rights has a bad name because of it’s association with slavery and the republicans that have for centuries used it to justify the unjustifiable.

But it’s true nonetheless that the federal government has taken more and more power and now is openly seeking to become the supreme leader of the country regardless of voters, branches of government, checks and balances, and the fact that all powers not specifically delegated to the feds, which amount only to regulating interstate commerce while being expressly forbidden from enacting barriers to trade and movement of people between the states in almost all areas; to handling foreign affairs; to provide for the common defense internationally; ect. While expressely being forbidden from abuses common under the king in the bill of rights.

But giving up makes it worse, we won’t surrender our rights, our country, our freedoms, to the worst people in the world without a fight. We won’t forever let weak, often criminally corrupt (and therefore blackmailable,) corporatist plutocrat tools play good cop to Republican bad cop, even as the Republicans have openly started playing Hitler. If the local prosecutors are too weak and bereft of courage to shield their own citizens from summary execution under false pretense with indisputable video evidence, then they must be replaced. And indeed we need all new leadership.

Lemmy connect app lets you tag users. Super useful.

I usually tag belligerent people, and block them if I see them do it again

Mother fuckers, most of you fucks were ready to put all of Palestinians under the bus because they’re brown and not in sight to save yourself.

We see right through your racist dog whistles. Facts have never matter to you and never have people, until it directly affects you.

History is witness. Your country has always been a shame on humanity.

It did. I saw early on that it was her wife there at the scene of the murder.

It didn’t cause any loss of attention. The person you’re responding to is a liar.

I guess it depends where you are and how you read the news. From outside the USA I saw a lot of details about the murder, and the backlash, before reading that her wife was in the car at the time. It probably took a couple of days?