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If you watch the video you can actually see him get shot.  I had to watch it several times before I realized what was going on.  It looks like the officer who shot him was 15'+ away from him.

KC

Is it that guy with a megaphone who's trying to interfere with them dragging the other clown off?

‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ is Back: Federal Oil, Gas Permits Soar Under Trump

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/01/drill-baby-drill-is-back-federal-oil-gas-permits-soar-under-trump/?vcrmeid=AdEPVTydE2aQ2GlvtA8qQ&vcrmiid=0oExZwPDEEuWAhaWn0tLDQ

“Drill, baby, drill” was the prime plank in Donald Trump’s platform when he ran for president.

It’s back, as oil and gas permitting has increased sharply in Trump’s second term, with federal drilling approvals and lease sales on public lands and offshore areas accelerating over the last year and continuing to surge in recent months.

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The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management approved 5,742 permits to drill between Jan. 20, 2025 — the first day of President Donald Trump’s second term — and Jan. 6 of this year, according to data from the agency.

That dwarfs the 3,696 approvals issued over the comparable period in 2024-2025 under former President Joe Biden. BLM also held 22 lease sales in 2025, leasing some 328,000 new acres of public land across 10 states for oil and gas development.

“As promised, the Trump Administration has cut burdensome, unnecessary red tape and approved permits at record speed to unleash American energy,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement Friday. “President Trump’s energy dominance agenda is restoring the ability for oil and gas companies to ‘DRILL, BABY, DRILL’ which why gas prices have hit a new multi-year low.”

As an addendum to the article's comment about CA gas prices, yes, they are higher. This is "courtesy" of higher state taxes/fees and state gooberment harassment of refineries, but at the same time, CA gas prices are $1.00-$1.50 per gallon than the prices were during most of the LIEden MalAdministration.

What are the odds that bodycam video will prove he was moving and was shot from several yards away (maybe >10 yards?)? IOW, he was hit by an "unlucky" FAFO shot.

If you watch the video you can actually see him get shot.  I had to watch it several times before I realized what was going on.  It looks like the officer who shot him was 15'+ away from him.

KC

democrank (12,184 posts)

2. How much more of this savagery are we going to take?

Reply to Swede (Original post)
Wed Jan 14, 2026, 07:35 AM

Abolish ICE !

The stank demo isn't really serious because it only used one exclamation point.

As for the insurrectionist claiming to be protestors, I told my wife yesterday that the agents need to limit their warnings to just one or two and then arrest them for obstruction. I've seen them in video clips giving some of these clowns tons of warnings and the clowns keep doing what they were doing. I understand that the agents don't want to be called fascists, but the loons are going to call them fascist regardless. Hell, if word got out that Santa Claus voted (r) they'd be calling him fascist.

One other thing, is their fabled DUAC still around?

Minneapolis Mayor: Why Doesn't ICE Focus on Florida, Texas, And ... Utah?

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/01/14/minneapolis-mayor-why-doesnt-ice-focus-on-florida-and-texas-n3810825

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey appeared today on Fox & Friends to defend his lawsuit seeking to exclude ICE operations from his city. Griff Jenkins asks the obvious question in this infuriating exchange, wondering why Frey and Governor Tim Walz objects to the arrests of murderers and rapists who also are in this country illegally. Frey offers a combative riposte about immigration enforcement in the state of the Minnesota, claiming that ICE should focus their efforts on states with larger populations of illegals – such as Texas, Florida, or (amusingly) Utah.
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Or Utah! Why Utah, though? Utah's population of 3.5 million is only a little more than half that of Minnesota's 5.87 million, so Minnesota would be a more likely target of enforcement on Frey's incoherent basis. In fact, the greater metropolitan area of the Twin Cities itself has more people (3.7 million) than the entire state of Utah.
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That brings us to Frey's core idiocy. The reason ICE doesn't have to conduct such operations in Florida, Texas, and (presumably) Utah is that those states and cities already coordinate with ICE when detaining illegal aliens. ICE doesn't have to go out looking for them; those criminals get transferred to ICE control directly once detained, or at least at some point rather than getting released from custody. Had Frey really wanted to deal with illegal-alien sex offenders and gang members, he and his city wouldn't have granted them sanctuary and forced the federal government to seek them out, and thereby raising the risks for everyone involved.

  , Since I "suggested" it above, I DDGed "ice raid utah":

Utah becomes a test case for Trump’s immigration strategy as street arrests skyrocket

https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/12/17/ice-street-arrests-surge-in-utah-and-across-west-as-border-patrol-takes-on-bigger-role/

In Utah, total ICE arrests increased from an average of 115 per month before Trump entered office, to more than 290 during his first six months. Arrests rose again to around 380 per month from July to mid-October, driven by an increase in street arrests and arrests of those with no criminal record but who have violated federal immigration law by overstaying a visa or otherwise being in the country illegally.

September saw a dramatic jump in noncustodial arrests — which are those that occur outside of the criminal justice pipeline which ICE traditionally relied on for the vast majority of enforcement actions. In custodial cases, ICE picks up detainees from local jails where they have been kept for breaking the law.

Street arrests, which can take place almost anywhere, have increased in Utah from less than three per month under Biden, to around two dozen per month during Trump’s first six months, before jumping to 118 in the month of September, contributing to an average of 72 per month between July and mid-October.
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A similar trend has played out in Arizona, where total average arrests have tripled from 300 a month under Biden, to more than 950 during the late summer and early fall. During that time, average monthly noncustodial arrests increased tenfold from around 30 to 325, and arrests without a criminal record increased from around 55 to over 280 per month.

Nevada has seen total average monthly arrests quadruple from 65 to more than 270, with noncustodial arrests and arrests of those without criminal records multiplying by at least that much. Idaho has not seen the same level of ICE enforcement action, with total average monthly arrests increasing from around 30 to 80.

Trump isn't "picking on you", clown Frey-Brain.