00:00And the U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance, has said that ICE agents are protected by absolute immunity.
00:07Is there a legal basis for this?
00:10Yeah, very strong comments from the Vice President during a White House briefing,
00:14essentially doubling down on what the Trump administration has said about the shooting in Minneapolis,
00:20that the woman was trying to kill federal agents.
00:23He essentially vilified her, saying that her death was a death of her own making,
00:28blaming her, but also saying that, yes, the federal agent acted in self-defense,
00:33and, yes, he would be covered by complete and absolute immunity.
00:38But that is a legal gray area.
00:40Police officers, federal agents, they do enjoy some legal protections.
00:45But state officials and local officials in Minneapolis are saying that because they believe he did not act in self-defense,
00:53that he carried out murder, they want to prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.
00:58What we are likely to see is not just protests continuing across the United States,
01:02but really that legal wrangling now to see whether or not state officials can bring charges against the officer in Minneapolis.
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