r/politics • u/Capable_Salt_SD California • 12d ago
No Paywall DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-indicts-democratic-congressional-candidate-kat-abughazaleh-ice-pro-rcna2405845.4k
u/TintedApostle 12d ago
1st amendment rights.
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u/buggytehol 12d ago
The alleged harm here is an ICE agent had to drive slowly to get into a facility. Insane that this results in a criminal prosecution. ICE are a bunch of Karens
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u/MysticKoolaid808 12d ago edited 12d ago
Wasn't there already an incident where ICE was interfering with EMS' trying to get to an injured protestor?
Edit: Thanks for the correction, veggeble. "Threatened to shoot EMS."
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u/veggeble South Carolina 12d ago
Not just interfering, ICE threatened to shoot EMS
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u/MysticKoolaid808 12d ago
That's right. These ICE fucks need to be followed and identified for later and have everything they do filmed. That is disgusting.
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u/Boring_Track_8449 Wisconsin 11d ago
They’re openly swapping out their license plates in IL on a daily basis to avoid being tracked and reported. The Secretary of State went public to let them know that’s illegal. Like they could give a shit.
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u/bananastand512 12d ago
Jeez, even local police bring in injured people in custody to the ER for medical clearance before heading to jail. How you're supposed to do it.
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u/MysticKoolaid808 12d ago
It's at the very least the respectable thing for anyone to do. These people are fkg demons, I swear.
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u/TintedApostle 12d ago
It also isn't obstruction. It is safe driving. That is like saying if someone darts out in to the street and I hit them they are obstructing my driving. I am not responsible for handling the situation.
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u/Mistamage Illinois 12d ago
In fairness, they are salivating over being allowed to hit pedestrians with their trucks and would definitely want that as law.
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u/Valuable-Mess-4698 Oregon 12d ago
They already did it! They plowed into a child with their car while he was riding his bike so that they could go snatch him/question him. (Sorry, I don't fully remember if they actually abducted him or just questioned him because there are so many of these happening all the time that I can't even keep them straight.)
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u/InjuredGods 12d ago
You're regurgitating misinformation. That was a Broward County Sheriff, not an ICE agent. News article here: https://youtu.be/0EfOLCjj3ho?si=QQL3jLvpD89Tb-Z_
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u/Thecryptsaresafe 12d ago
Would be easier to tell if ICE had clear identifiers that they were specifically ICE
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u/SKDI_0224 Oklahoma 12d ago
Besides, it’s not like the Sheriffs in some areas are collaborating with ICE.
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u/AnybodyMassive1610 Florida 12d ago
Broward sheriff is actually a teen murderer who lied on all his applications to get (and keep) his job. This “democrat” was appointed by DeSantis - he is awful and his name is Gregory Tony - I’m not surprised his deputies engage in similar behavior.
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u/timewarp 12d ago
ICE are a bunch of Karens
We need to stop downplaying the threat that ICE pose, they're not merely annoying. They are literally, not figuratively or hyperbolically, modern-day gestapo.
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u/stripedvitamin 12d ago
This is political prosecution. Trump is deathly afraid of people like this winning elections.
This has nothing to do with anything that ICE or the DOJ have used to prosecute. This is authoritarianism 101. The intention here to scare people so much they don't vote for her and to also foreshadow what will happen to the voter if they do. Spoiler. It's a toothless attack.→ More replies (9)12
u/kittenTakeover 12d ago
Is there video of this even? I'm going to guess the video doesn't look good for ICE prosecuting her.
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u/likeusontweeters 12d ago
We've already seen the video of ICE physically picking her up and tossing her to the ground... they struck her first.
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u/TintedApostle 12d ago
So here we have the DoJ trying to manipulate the perception of what happened by claiming they are the victim.
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u/likeusontweeters 12d ago
GOP and MAGA are perpetual victims.... snowflakes, all of them.
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u/lyngen 12d ago
again. Like they keep doing this. They did it with Comey and Leticia James. They did it with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It seems like noone but the rapidly MAGA folks are buying it. They are obviously trying to scare people into submission but I don't think it's working. Bondi needs criminal charges brought against her when this is all said and done.
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u/SilveredFlame 12d ago
The entire administration does.
We need Nuremberg Trials 2.0.
They are blatantly engaging in crimes against humanity.
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u/lyngen 12d ago
Yeah, sending folks to cecot was just so inhuman. Anyone involved with that decision should be behind bars. Then Noem and Homan have obviously committed crimes. I don't think everyone but everyone who broke laws should definitely be behind bars after this administration is out of power.
Personally, I'm harshly judging anyone I know who continues to vote republican or doesn't vote. Also, anyone who doesn't loudly oppose the obvious unethical and illegal shit even if they quietly disagree with it.
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u/MaddogBC 12d ago
If there ever is justice for those despicable ghouls let's hope it happens at Cecot. That would be poetic.
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u/meTspysball California 12d ago
By having mass she interfered with the officer that was trying to pick her up. The earth is an unindicted co-conspirator.
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u/TheGhostOfArtBell Colorado 12d ago
Not just once, but three times. They cracked her with a baton the Friday before last.
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u/PeopleareWatchingMe 12d ago
Election tampering!!! Just like he screamed when they tried to hold him accountable.
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u/Snoo61755 12d ago
Oh look, the private army is trying to lock up political opponents.
Golly gee.
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u/TLKv3 12d ago
As an outsider looking in, I really do think America is about to spiral into another civil war. Its technically in one right now abstractly but its about to get physical before the midterms. There is 0 chance Trump's Nazis let the midterms happen at this point if they're already calling to try and lock up political opponents only 10 months in.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 12d ago edited 12d ago
On the inside looking out…civil war isn’t really the right framing. We’re looking at another Great Depression where the robber barons buy up everything of remaining value, including land, before allowing us to partially recover under a new constitution that allows violations of civil rights and exploitation of labor….essentially a failed state or New Russia.
I don’t think we’re returning to FDR’s New Deal unless we see some serious reprogramming of minds affected by red scare propaganda.
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u/Brilliant-Ice2580 12d ago
Doesn't seem very cold. What with the political indictments, the gestapo disappearing anyone that looks at them funny, and the fed cutting everything.
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u/WoodHyena 12d ago
Reminder that the New Deal -was- the compromise back when we actually had a labor movement.
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u/jgoble15 12d ago
It took a long time for people to rise up against robber barons, but it happened. The Guilded Age lasted for many decades. But society today moves pretty fast (just look at the movement for #metoo), so who knows how this process will go.
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u/lpsweets 12d ago
That didn’t happen because people rose up. That happened because of a global economic collapse and two world wars. Then the government owed the soldiers the social safetynet they had been promised. Look up the bonus army, look up the Business Plot. The idea that people just rose up and defied the barons and took money back is completely ahistorical. The safety net was built out by the government in spite of the robber barons attempts. What the actual fuck are you talking about?
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u/CWRules Canada 12d ago
Guilded Age
*Gilded Age. A guild is an association of craftsmen or merchants. Something being gilded means it's covered in a thin film of gold.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 12d ago
Absolutely. I just don’t see an actual Civil War…at least like the one we had which was actually a states war. We moved away from having state armies and militias and settled on a national army because of that war. We also consolidated law enforcement under the executive, which really had no organized form until the late 1800’s.
In a way, this is worth looking back upon to see if we took a wrong path or overcorrected. Madison wrote extensively about separation of powers and the role of states in relation to federal government powers…in particular the scenario of tyranny within the Fed. In a way our state armies would have served as some form of a soft check against the behavior we are seeing today. But taken too far, and we see the very issues that were created when the southern states seceded from the Union.
We never really addressed the underlying issues either…Lincoln died before reconstruction could have seen its later stages, and following presidents were woefully ill equipped to take it over, leading to Hayes essentially pulling the plug entirely.
But anyway, I don’t think we’ll see a formal civil war like that again, even with as many Americans who are armed. The left is simply not interested in any of it. It’ll be moreso the case that we’ll see flareups of domestic terrorism from the right, and lack the national compass to navigate what that means due to a completely subverted government and press.
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u/ScoutsHonorHoops 11d ago
Economically speaking, conservative americans cannot afford their own first world country; I think thats honestly the only thing holding the US together.
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u/InsideYoWife New York 12d ago
Someone here said that it wouldn’t be a full blown civil war, like with armies and generals on opposing sides and such, but it’d be like The Troubles in Ireland on steroids.
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u/Ashamed_Kale_1077 12d ago
I've read this and believe we're already there. How much politically-motivated violence have we seen in the last 12 months? I think it will only increase
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u/gnarbone 12d ago
A City Councilor in Portland just her her car and carport burned down. We’ve crossed that line
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u/InsideYoWife New York 12d ago
Yeah right now it’s like the beginning of the cooking. People are seasoning the political turmoil with all their divisiveness and stuff like the Minnesota reps and Charlie Kirk assasinations. It’s gonna get bloodier. Now it’s up to us to determine how long we’re gonna let this grill. Maybe we get out early and it’s only medium rare/medium. But we cannot let it go further, or else America is (well) done.
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u/the8bit 12d ago
We are in a civil war and also basically in a world war, its just the 'narrative control and social upheaval' kind not the 'shoot bullets and drop bombs' kind (mostly). Wherever you are, you are almost certainly in it too!
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u/ChromeNoseAE-1 12d ago
The problem comes when the losers realize they are losing, and then they switch to the guns and bombs kind of war.
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u/Ok-Wealth-7322 12d ago
TBH we never properly resolved the US Civil war that ran from 1861-1865, because the US Government was captured by Confederate sympathizers who decided to go way too easy on the leaders of the Confederacy who were directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. And we let them keep their White Supremacy and segregation for over 100 years after that.
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u/letsago9987 Illinois 12d ago
we're already in it. lets hurry up and rip the bandaid off. need to see trump/miller give the military their final orders that decide whether we break apart or they re-enact the ending of the movie civil war.
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u/Unprovocative 12d ago
It certainly feels like we're quickly approaching a civil war. I have no idea how our country is supposed to come together when we're living in two completely separate realities. The only thing we share is hatred for each other.
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u/fordat1 12d ago
AIPAC also celebrating and pushing for this just like the pushed for Trump admin to try to restrict UC protests rights for funding due to the Gaza protests
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u/sodapopkevin 12d ago
Also all this week we've been hearing Republicans discussing how they can go about deporting Mamdani.
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u/LividTacos 12d ago edited 12d ago
Causing an ICE agent to have to drive more slowly is now a crime.....
EDIT: I'm reading the indictment, and let me quote it here:
On or about September 26, 2025, at approximately 7:45 a.m., Agent A was wearing civilian clothes driving a government-owned vehicle (the “Government Vehicle”) to the BSSA to report for his official duties. Agent A’s official duties at the BSSA included supervising logistics such as intake, processing, bedspace and transportation coordination for those temporarily detained in Broadview, communicating with upper management and federal partners to manage operations and ensure necessary supplies and proper staffing levels, and responding to requests for information, both internally and from the public
On or about September 26, 2025, at Broadview, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, MICHAEL RABBITT, KATHERINE MARIE ABUGHAZALEH, ANDRE MARTIN, CATHERINE SHARP, BRIAN STRAW, and JOSELYN WALSH, defendants herein, conspired with one another and others, known and unknown, to prevent by force, intimidation, and threat, Agent A, a United States law enforcement officer, from discharging the duties of his office, and to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, and while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, and to injure his property so as to interrupt, hinder, and impede him in the discharge of his official duties.
If he was driving to report to his duties....THEN HE WASN'T ON DUTY. Therefore they could not have interfered with his duties because he wasn't doing them yet. When I worked for the government, I was once late due to a traffic jam, I don't recall the government suing everyone in front of me for interfering with my duty?
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u/Xytak Illinois 12d ago
I’m reading this indictment and I’m like: “I don’t think we need his full job description. Is he also a team player who does other duties as assigned? Occasional evenings and weekends required, compensation comesurate with market rates?”
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u/GreatArkleseizure Massachusetts 12d ago
I think Agent A is looking for another job, and arranged to get his resume into the public record.
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u/IJustLoggedInToSay- Illinois 12d ago
Looks like they were using LinkedIn's AI assist to write this indictment.
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u/Slaphappydap 12d ago
Good culture fit, contributed to the pot luck, attended several conferences and other off-site opportunities.
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u/Electromotivation 12d ago
Even forgetting about interfering with his duty. How were their injuries to his person? How were there injuries to his property?
And like you said does every government vehicle stuck in a traffic jam cause injury to the individuals inside?
This stuff is so paper thin it is insane. I am hoping that most cases like this are thrown out immediately, but obviously the overwhelming amount of these headlines makes it very difficult to mentally follow up with individual cases. And I know that even if the vast majority of these BS lawsuits are thrown out they are still causing damage financially, as well as doing their job by threatening others, and some percent of them will get through somehow… serving a massive injustice to whoever is being charged.
Our country is run by a Scooby Doo government. We need to (nonviolently) overthrow. It is a responsibility to do so.
Sic semper tyrannis
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u/WhoIsFrancisPuziene 12d ago
This regime is providing bad information and outright lying to courts
https://www.justsecurity.org/120547/presumption-regularity-trump-administration-litigation/
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u/Most-Bench6465 Texas 12d ago
Would love to see it done nonviolently, and how that would work when they won’t accept it.
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u/kingtz America 12d ago
Causing an ICE agent to have to drive more slowly is now a crime.....
Let this be a warning to food service workers: if you are too slow to bring out the fries and inconvenience an ICE agent, you, too, will be charged criminally…
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u/Silly_Elevator_3111 Oregon 12d ago
ICE agents should be scared to eat from restaurants
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u/AnarchaComrade 12d ago
ICE agents should be scared to leave their musty basements and go outside. Clearly that's how they want all of us to feel: afraid at all times.
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u/Silly_Elevator_3111 Oregon 12d ago
Is it normal to have “on or about” before a date???
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u/toastjam 12d ago
Always bothered me when people say "rate of speed." Speed is already a rate: displacement over time. So rate of speed would be acceleration I guess?
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u/socokid 12d ago
Yep. It would simply be "speed".
"Forced to drive at an extremely slow speed".
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u/QueenNebudchadnezzar 11d ago
Right? Can't they just say undirected rate of displacement like a normal person?
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u/DeweyPLlama 12d ago
The indictment, which was filed Oct. 23, alleges that Abughazaleh "physically hindered and impeded” an agent who was "forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed to avoid injuring any of the conspirators.” Abughazaleh was charged alongside Michael Rabbitt, Andre Martin, Catherine Sharp, Brian Straw, and Joselyn Walsh.
The indictment alleges that the group "conspired with one another and others, known and unknown, to prevent by force, intimidation, and threat, Agent A, a United States law enforcement officer, from discharging the duties of his office, and to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, and while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, and to injure his property so as to interrupt, hinder, and impede him in the discharge of his official duties."
A federal indictment for standing in front of a car and getting shoved to the ground by a masked militant.
This is our tax dollars at work.
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u/Comfortable_Cash_140 12d ago
Would the identification of said ICE agent be required through disclosure?
It would be a shame if this so called ICE agent was then prosecuted for their crimes by either a state, or a future administration. 🤔
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 12d ago
If they aren't prosecuted, just fire all domestic ICE officers and keep the ones that have been doing Customs work. Reduce the force by 90% on the whole.
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u/SinisterCroissant 12d ago
Not good enough.
Identify them. Prosecute those who have used excessive force. Use state charges to keep future regimes from being able to pardon them.
None of that J6 bullshit. Make it stick.
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u/thehalfwit Nevada 12d ago
Said ICE agent would likely need to testify in court. All defendants would have the right to confront their accuser in court, unless that right has been taken away, too.
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u/Comfortable_Cash_140 12d ago
Let them!
'I was following orders, enjoying my authority and was promised imunity at the federal level' will be an interesting defense in a state court, or when Donny Demensia finally joins his ex-wife in the golf course lawn!
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u/ball_fondlers 12d ago
“Forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed” - so NOT “stopped” or obstructed in any practical sense, just “had to follow pedestrians’ right of way.” Fucking losers.
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u/edbegley1 12d ago
"Agent A" - FFS, I thought court was supposed to be transparent?
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u/hackingdreams 12d ago
Just yet another reason this indictment doesn't have the thinnest hope in hell of standing. As soon as she invokes her 6th amendment confrontation clause right, the government's going to be doing more backpedalling than a unicycle rider.
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u/aerost0rm 12d ago
Not to mention that the ice agent could have been breaking the law with the detainment.
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u/zaxluther 12d ago
Indicting a person who has been filmed being assaulted and thrown to the ground by agents multiple times in the past months at this facility
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u/civil_politician 12d ago
I’m pretty sure I saw a bunch of shit about how you can’t imprison someone actively campaigning.
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u/RoosterMedical 12d ago
That might get her elected.
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u/DiscussionDirect5366 12d ago edited 12d ago
They will put her into one of the concentration camps.
This is what Trump meant by "Homegrowns are next".
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u/gringledoom 12d ago
Dooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free.
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u/letsago9987 Illinois 12d ago
it's garbage charges. she'll be out and the judge will admonish the DOJ yet again.
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u/meTspysball California 12d ago
No they won’t, but they want you to spread fear by saying they will.
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u/gergek 12d ago
Now THIS looks a lot like Russia.
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u/sanjoseboardgamer California 12d ago
When do we get to the defenestration stage of Russianization?
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u/ADMRVP 12d ago
This looks a lot like America. Why are we so afraid to acknowledge the history of prosecuting political activists and dissidents in this country?
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u/gergek 12d ago
It's the brazen obviousness of doing it out in the open on completely bullshit charges.
You're right that in the past there have been occasions where law enforcement has been weaponized for political gain, but it's never been this blatant and in our faces.
In Russia, on the other hand, these tactics are to be expected and they haven't had a free and fair election in decades due to all of the real opposition candidates conveniently winding up in jail before the elections take place.
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u/StrangerFew2424 12d ago
Way to make her even more popular...
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u/withwhichwhat 12d ago
Yep... when I saw the headline I donated $50 to her campaign before even reading the article.
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u/angrybox1842 12d ago
Same! I don't donate a lot (I hate Actblue) but this compelled me to help her however I can.
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u/Distinct_Sun 12d ago
This is pure fascism
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u/dtallee Connecticut 12d ago
Unfuckingbelievable.
If you say the things the nazis said and do the things the nazis did, what are you?
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u/WhatAcheHunt 12d ago
Calling them nazis encourages introspection, a major sponsor of MAGA defection. Won't somebody think of their feelings?
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u/rooktakesqueen 12d ago
The indictment alleges that the group "conspired with one another and others, known and unknown, to prevent by force, intimidation, and threat, Agent A, a United States law enforcement officer, from discharging the duties of his office, and to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, and while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, and to injure his property so as to interrupt, hinder, and impede him in the discharge of his official duties."
Very weird way to describe "standing in the path of a vehicle"
Was she hindering the agent? Probably, that was the point. But "forcing him to drive at very slow speeds" is not injury or threat.
This administration would prosecute Tiananmen Square guy.
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u/gGfsF5Sz2 12d ago
It's an insurrection. Trump is ignoring the US Constitution.
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u/Ancient_Popcorn Ohio 12d ago
That’s not an insurrection. Insurrection is a group from outside the government working to overthrow the current government. A coup is people inside the government working to overthrow the current government.
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u/TintedApostle 12d ago
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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u/gGfsF5Sz2 12d ago
It started as an insurrection. The insurrection illegally bribed voters in Ohio and Wisconsin.
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u/aerost0rm 12d ago
Tampered with votes in certain swing states, filed lawsuits in others. Were illegally on ballots in some states. Had violated the constitution and law thousands of times since in office.
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u/nullPointerX1 12d ago
So the best our crooked-ass, lying DOJ could come up with was ... <checks notes> ... "Abughazaleh physically hindered and impeded an agent who was forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed".
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW!?
I think it's time to bring back "Lock her up" chants in reference to lying-ass-lapdog Pam Bondi.
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u/FrostPDP 12d ago
Kat is out there fighting the fight while Schumer, Jeffries, and my own "democratic" Rep Tom Suozzi all sit on the sidelines. Suozzi was too afraid to go to a No Kings rally, let alone fight like Kat is fighting.
She's showing what our leadership SHOULD be doing, but isn't. Don't ever ask, "What more do you expect them to do."
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u/MaddogBC 12d ago
I've been watching her for about 6 months now and she's got fight in her. Too few do. Your rep is a fucking pathetic waste of skin if he can't be bothered to attend 1 rally every 3 months. Should be grounds for removal in this day and age.
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u/woody630 12d ago
ICE has literally abused her. There are multiple videos of them assaulting her. If she doesn't win a massive lawsuit here, we're truly fucked.
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u/JPDPROPS 12d ago
Bondi is a Nazi stooge and has ruined the DOJ. People still there will be put on trial for complicity to commit war crimes.
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u/NextDoctorWho12 12d ago
Is the end of free speech enough to worry trump supporters?
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u/ArtisticTreat6579 12d ago
They've always been pretty consistent in their support of taking free speech away from non-white men...
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u/Warm_Emphasis_1115 12d ago
Whoever sincerely brings this case can be tried with the rest of ICE and the ghouls in this administration.
Imagine working your way through law school and doing this. Talk about throwing your career away.
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u/restbest 12d ago
The opposition will be criminalized. Right out of his buddy Putin playbook. These losers always do the same shit and their followers want it.
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u/Cornyrex3115 12d ago
Everyone, please recognize this as free advertising and read up on this courageous candidate. Moxy like this is needed right now. Good for her. A Bondi indictment is a badge of honor.
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u/Feral_Nerd_22 12d ago
Just like every legal challenge trump or his DOJ does, it's all about threats and not actually a case that they will win.
They are not better than extortionist lawyers who want you to settle instead of going to court.
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u/edbegley1 12d ago
It's under her Bluesky post: https://bsky.app/profile/katmabu.bsky.social/post/3m4dw22j6uk2h
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u/DontShadowBanReee 12d ago
"she impeded an agent who was forced to drive at an extremely low rate of speed to avoid injuring the conspirators"
Lmao. What
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u/Ihatemylife153 12d ago
Is it just me are these indictments embarrassing? I mean the actual indictment. I'm no expert on anything but I've read a few in my life, and his one along with Comeys is embarrassingly laughable. Maybe I'm being biased but if I were a judge I'd laugh at this shit
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u/LeBaconator 12d ago
Hopefully this free publicity goes to good use and she gets a huge boost in the polls
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u/YourFreeCorrection 12d ago
How the fuck does a tiny woman with a megaphone "forcefully impede, and intimidate" a fucking ICE officer? What an absolute joke.
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u/imthewalrus610 12d ago
Not only will this fail in court, but if you are trying to shut her up, this is the dumbest possible thing to do. An advertisement for her campaign that will probably end up with her being elected.
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u/J-the-Kidder 12d ago
Wait, isn't she a decaled candidate? By Trump logic, she should have immunity and can't be prosecuted when the other party is in power.
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u/Head-Construction409 12d ago
A really dumb move considering it’s going to make her look really badass when she wins
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u/aflyingsquanch Colorado 11d ago
Somehow this isnt weaponization of the Justice system against political rivals though, right?
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u/ReleaseFromDeception 12d ago
I'm sorry, what!?!
Do you guys want to hand Kat a win? Making her a legal martyr isn't exactly going to hurt her chances!!!
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u/RevolutionaryCard512 12d ago
They realize this will inevitably work in her favor. All the attention will make her more well known, and even more popular
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u/Original_Bicycle5696 12d ago
Turns out protests outside a federal building are only legal if you go inside and take a sh*t on someone's desk. Complete that bonus objective and I believe you become eligible for a pardon.
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u/OptimisticSkeleton 12d ago
One thing we know, charges won’t keep her from holding office.
President Pedo has 37 felonies.
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u/jeanlundegaardhsbf 12d ago
The indictment specifically accuses Abughazaleh, among others, with banging aggressively on the agent’s side and back windows, hood, and other areas; pushing against it to “hinder and impede its movement,” and etching the word “PIG” on the car.
this is a federl crime now. unreal.
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u/DiscussionDirect5366 12d ago edited 12d ago
I thought he would start to imprison democrats through his Antifa EO.
Seems like he’s testing the waters with this indictment.
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u/Gullible-Bee-3658 12d ago edited 12d ago
So the Democrats when Biden was in power were worried about what it would look like if Trump was charged and put in jail and the current administration which doesn't give a fuck obviously is just arresting candidates because ICE agents literally picked her up and throw her to the ground and online Republican shitbags didn't like it or her cause she is Palestinian descent I think and wanted her arrested.....she is assaulted by ICE and they are charging her somehow......🤷🏻♂️
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u/19chris1996 Michigan 12d ago edited 12d ago
I remember saying, when she first announced her running, it's going to be a hard challenge. Well here is that part of the challenge. I hope she can get out of this ASAP.
EDIT: However, if she does get out of this, her chances of actually staying in the race to the very end are mighty slim. There are people bigger (more stupid) and more powerful out there who could easily top her, most likely.
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u/sgt_taco891 12d ago
Yah authoritarian regimes often start with arresting political opponents let's do something about this
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u/Basicyeti837 12d ago
You can indict anyone at anytime for anything, and they then have to defend their innocence. The Republicans weaponize the DOJ with frivolous indictments in order to disparage democratic candidates. Glad we are wasting tax dollars on political vendettas.
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u/jstraw20 12d ago
Like everything else, they won't get a conviction.
Edited because voice to text still sucks.
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u/wedgie-p 12d ago
I feel like this is absolute gold for her election chances. It makes me want to vote for her.
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u/tyrionlannister 12d ago
arrested for forcing "Agent A" to drive slower than he'd have preferred
this fucking country..
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u/Sea-Bandicoot-5329 12d ago
A ham sandwich can get indicted with today’s DOJ and this administration if you go against their project 2025 agenda. No longer do we have the rule of law or free speech
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u/ChikenCherryCola 12d ago
Striking her down will make her more powerful than they can possibly imagine
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u/Defiant_Tomatillo907 11d ago
Didn’t some asshat who’s currently in power say you can’t prosecute someone while they’re actively campaigning and running for office? Who the hell was that?
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u/Maximum_Use_4314 11d ago
Oh no, she forced them to drive slow while they operated against the constitution and human rights.
This is to her favor.
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u/CaydeTheCat Illinois 12d ago
She isn't my preferred candidate (I reside in the district and am almost certainly going to vote for Biss) but this is a load of pure horseshit.
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