How many of you would see a group of masked ICE/Federal enforcement bearing down on a single individual on the ground and believe that there was an imminent and otherwise unavoidable danger of death or grave bodily harm to the innocent?
That is the standard for justifiable homicide.
I think if somone had have killed those ICE/Feds at that moment, the law as it is written would be on their side.
The reality is, of course, that the law as it is written is nothing if it is not upheld. It is not currently being upheld, the law in practice is what people have the power to do. That law is rudderless and flows as power shifts.
In lieu of any other anchor, people will inevitably seek the power to enforce their laws. That is a civil war,
They are creating this thin but clear line between where illegal use of violence is upheld and inviting legal use of violence to stop it from happening. That is perilously close to instigating such a civil war.
And I am not certain that it is unintentional.