10,000LakesArcher

Minnesota’s legislature gave $1 million in taxpayer money to a nonprofit that was already ordered to pay back $1.1 million of taxpayer money that the state Department of Education identified as fraudulently obtained through the federal child nutrition program. New American Development Center did not fall under Feeding our Future. It was a meal site sponsor just like Feeding our Future. But the only two meal sites it sponsored were its own, claiming 2.9 million meals served for $7.8 million dollars.

I've now watched the Minneapolis ICE shooting from three different angles, and there's no real question -- it was quite obviously a legally justified use of deadly force by a law enforcement officer. That officer faced an unknown subject who, while ignoring lawful commands, pointed a 3000+ lbs. car at him and evidenced an intent to continue driving that car. He shot the driver (1) after the driver made physical contact with his body and (2) through the front windshield. You can slow down the video all you want and spend minutes analyzing micro-seconds to make after-the-fact assessments of the likelihood the driver actually intended to use the car as a lethal weapon. In reality, during those micro-seconds in real time, it's reasonable to presume that a driver ignoring your commands to stop is about to floor the gas peddle, turn the wheel into you, and run you over. It's no different than the reasonable presumption that the suspect who ignores your commands to keep their hands up and reaches for the gun in their waistband intends to use it against you rather than toss it away.