Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said during an interview that residents could fire upon ICE agents who are masked if they feel they are in danger.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42070722

A masked guy breaks down your door w/o an Article III warrant absent exigent circumstances? Yeah, I’d agree. Trick will be that pressing the murder charge would be federal since a federal agent dies in the line of official work (though illegal), which would give the president grounds to push for death.

  • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    9 days ago

    Note, the law usually specifies defense of the innocent.

    Even minor charges against the person you’re defending could complicate your legal case.

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 days ago

      It’d be complicated, sure, but that’s a drop in the much larger bucket of a case. What does a reasonable person know or believe at the moment of the perceived danger though? Won’t rule it out but can’t see a courtroom conclusion stating that I should have hopped on my computer to do a background check first. I do have evidence of a murderous gang of terrorists targeting people (citizen or otherwise) on American soil, however, and they like to dress up in an imitation of police gear.

      • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Don’t get me wrong, morally you’re almost certainly justified.

        It’s just that historically self defense or defense of others claims on killing a law enforcement officer are a huge uphill battle in the courts.

        It’s extremely rare for a court to find killing an officer justified.