Marshal task forces, which are made up of local law enforcement officers who get deputized as federal agents but are not necessarily given any special training, are also shielded from prosecution by the Justice Department.
Look more closely and you may find that many of the same cops who serve on marshal task forces also serve on local SWAT teams.
For instance, 23-year-old Casey Goodson was shot and killed outside his family home in Columbus, Ohio, by a deputy police officer who also happened to be a member of a marshals task force and the local SWAT team. Although the cop claimed to have shot Goodson in the back for waving a gun while driving, that police account conflicts with other accounts, which suggest Goodson was shot on the doorstep while holding a bag of sandwiches. Goodson was not a target of a police investigation.
Sariah Lane, 17 years old, was killed on her way to the grocery when an Arizona cop, also working as a marshal task-force member, fired into a Toyota Corolla in which she and her boyfriend were passengers. Task-force members, out to get the driver of the car for violating his parole, used an unmarked car to ram the Corolla in a parking lot, boxed it in with other unmarked cars, and then started firing into the car. Lane was shot in the back of the head with a hollow-point bullet.
Lane's alleged killer, Detective Michael Pezzelle, trains police officers around the country to "be polite, be professional, have a plan to kill everyone you meet."
Talk about a recipe for disaster: take poorly trained cops, deputize them as federal marshals, grant them immunity from prosecution, and authorize them to use deadly force to kill someone who poses an "imminent danger".
To that noxious stew add the government's interest in adopting domestic-terrorism legislation to "better monitor and regulate the environments in which extremist ideologies proliferate" and the Biden administration's pivot to have FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) assist states and cities in their fight against domestic extremism.
Not to be outdone, the Department of Homeland Security is also considering ramping up its initiatives to combat domestic terrorism by expanding training, providing technical assistance to local jurisdictions for threat-assessment investigations, and developing strategies to combat the influence of false online narratives.
Translation: the government is about to rapidly expand its policing efforts to focus on pre-crime and thought crimes.
Given the government's tendency to manipulate labels to suit their purposes (case in point: consider how interchangeably the government uses the terms terrorist, extremist and anti-government), that could easily put a target on the back of any American who dares to challenge the government's agenda or hold it accountable to the rule of law.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this is how "we the people" become enemies of the state.
The ramifications are so far-reaching as to render almost every American an extremist in word, deed, thought or by association.
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