#deadly force

BREAKING: Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal enrages MAGA world by honoring Renée Good and calling ICE agents "fake, wannabe law enforcement" and Trump's "new army to attack citizens."

She then vowed to unmask these cowards and said: "You don't want this smoke."

Right-wingers are having a meltdown over this one...

"Good afternoon. I'm Rochelle Bilal, Sheriff for the city and county of Philadelphia. And I say her name: Renée Good. Renée Good. Renée Good. This should not have happened, but we're here today," Bilal said at a press conference."

"Let note that law enforcement professionals, real ones, not the fake made up ICE probably Trump's new army to attack citizens of the United States," she continued. "Did you hear what I said? No law enforcement professional wears a mask. None, none. Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime — and thank God for our district attorney, Larry Krasner who said he's going to lock them up — and I'm saying now, we are not going to whisk you away for them to hide your identity because when you do it there, you getting arrested there."

"No whisk away for them to hide you. None of that here. None of that here," she went on. "Law enforcement professionals do not shoot at moving vehicles. Not saying fleeing because she wasn't fleeing. She was getting out of the way."

"Law enforcement professionals do not stand in front of moving vehicles, invoking an action that is illegal," said Bilal. "No, we don't. And so we stand here today with all those who stand against the made up, fake, what you can call ICE, professional law enforcement."

"I don't call them none of that. I call them made up, fake, wannabe law enforcement," she said. "Because what they do is against not only legal law, but the moral law."

"So I'm with the DA and we will work with them. If any of them want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide. Nobody will whisk you off," she continued.

"You don't want this smoke because we will bring it to you," said the sheriff. "And the fake, whatever they call them, because I can't say the name, but the criminal in the White House would not be able to keep you from going to jail."

"Renée Good should be here today and to her family, we are saying law enforcement professionals are not the ones here in this city that would do that," said Bilal. "But here's the last thing that I will say. Law enforcement professionals around the country do their job and we have been fighting for years to build that bridge between us and our communities."

"You had one negative nutcase that causes this problem and now we all have to fight again to let people know law enforcement works with communities. These crimes would not be down if we didn't have communities work with us. Thank you," she concluded.

Predictably, the same right-wing psychopaths who celebrated the ruthless murder of an innocent mother are now clamoring for this sheriff to be fired. Social media is abuzz with outraged Republicans calling her "incompetent" and Fox News is running breathless coverage of her remarks. It's time for us to show her that we support her completely. Speak out!

Aww, look at Broadway being a better person than I admitted to sometimes being XD

Gaining fame on the right doesn’t require being correct. It just requires being alarmist.

Three Trump classified document conspiracies that all go back to one person: Julie Kelly

In the column linked above, Phillip Bump does his usual excellent job of debunking three right-wing conspiracy theories about the Trump documents case, and tracing where they come from. Bump provides evidence proving that:

Trump was NOT "framed" by the General Services Administration in the classified documents case.

The FBI was NOT PLOTTING to use deadly force against Trump or the Secret Service in its search of Mar-a-Lago.

The famous Mar-a-Lago photo of classified documents on the floor of Trump's office was NOT "doctored."*

All these conspiracies and the disinformation attached to them come from one person, Julie Kelly, a right-wing conspiracy monger who is on X.

This is how emptywheel describes Kelly:

Julie Kelly is an important right wing propagandist who has ginned up quite a lot of attention from accused fraudsters for her willingness to lie about Jan6ers and Donald Trump. Her propaganda may have given Aileen Cannon cover to delay trial for Trump’s alleged unlawful retention of National Defense Information, including a nuclear document.

If you have friends or relatives who follow Kelly and/or believe these conspiracies, you might want to acquaint them with the debunks.

[The above link to Bump's column is a gift🎁link, so you can read the entire article even if you don't subscribe to The Washington Post. I encourage you to read it, as Bump does a good job of debunking this nonsense.]