It has become the trademark of many in the liberal media to publicize any Democrat plot against the Trump administration, and it doesn’t matter whether it passes legal muster. Tuesday on CNN’s The Situation Room, what started out as a story that didn’t look good for DHS and ICE, was wrecked when they turned to CNN legal analyst Elle Honig for how this would turn out for Democrats. The story involves the wrongful arrest of a U.S. citizen in Minnesota back in January, and the intentions of state authorities to pursue criminal charges against the agents responsible for the mistake. Wolf Blitzer kicked off the segment by talking over a short clip of the arrest being made, and introducing CNN Law Enforcement Correspondent Whitney Wild.
WILD: The County Attorney in Ramsey County, John Choi, says that they are investigating this as criminal actions by these federal immigration agents who went into the home of a man named Scott Thao, and they say it was without a warrant, without any legal justification. And they’re describing it as these agents breaking into the home, arresting Tao, taking him away from his home…. Again, it bears repeating that Thao is a U.S. Citizen.
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