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I don’t know what the Russians have on the president politically, personally or whatever it is, but he wants to ignore [reports of wrongdoing]. How else would you explain his refusal to ignore, again and again, the intelligence that puts right at the Russian doorstep the involvement into our elections, for example?

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, when asked if she thinks the Russians have dirt on Trump, on ABC’s This Week.

I really believe that all lives matter. And that’s where the heart of the American people lies. What I see in the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement is a political agenda of the radical left that would defund the police, that would tear down monuments, that would press a radical left agenda.

Mike Pence, hypocritical court evangelical, racist, and Vice President of the United States, explaining (sort of) why he refuses to say “black lives matter.” On CBS’s Face the Nation.

The legal question of “justification” is based on whether the involved officers held a reasonable belief that the use of force was necessary.   Based on the evidence and the law applicable at the time of Mr. McClain’s death, the prosecution cannot disprove the officers’ reasonable belief in the necessity to use force.  Based on the facts and evidence of this investigation I cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers involved in this incident were not justified in their actions based on what they knew at the time of this incident.

Here is more weasel-speak from a District Attorney, this time from Dave Young, the District Attorney for the 17th Judicial District that covers Adams and Broomfield Counties in Colorado. The quote comes from a news release Young made on June 25 regarding his decision not to prosecute the officers of the Aurora Police Department after they assaulted Elijah McClain—actions that ultimately led to his death in August 2019. It points to the weirdly symbiotic relationship that police departments and district attorneys share. The web page for the District Attorney’s office acknowledges their goal is “to create a safer community through positive partnerships with law enforcement,” a stance that all but ensures that the District Attorney will put protecting the police ahead of serving and protecting the community. Body cam footage of the encounter between Elijah and the police who assaulted him is now widely available on the internet. Reasonable people who view it will come away as I did, with the reasonable belief that the use of force was unnecessary and unwarranted, that Elijah McClain posed no threat to the Aurora police officers, and that they harried and frightened him to elicit a fight and flight response that would justify their manhandling of a gentle introvert who only wanted to have his personal boundaries acknowledged and respected. Do you want to disprove the officer’s reasonable belief that force was necessary? All you have to do is watch.