"Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. He means what he says." -- Masha Gessen.
State violence to advance the end of “retribution” is death squad logic. https://t.co/f6ADhRMC3i— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 13, 2020
I assume that the suspect fired on the us marshals when they attempted to arrest him and he was killed when they returned fire. But the President insists it was an extrajudicial retribution killing. https://t.co/6JevPag5PZ— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 13, 2020
Trump's encouragement of extrajudicial killing comes after a whistleblower described DHS demands to "modify intelligence" to paint antifa as a domestic terrorist threat. This is a systematic effort to put a group of Americans outside of the most basic legal protections. https://t.co/ufpHOiyKJs— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) September 13, 2020
The whole point of the rule of law is that this is not how it’s supposed to be. https://t.co/YLcNN30GNb— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) September 13, 2020
Why isn’t there an AP story about the US President embracing extrajudicial killings?
They’d write it for Burkina Faso.— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 13, 2020
