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"Officer-Created Jeopardy" Is Has Not Been A Legal Defense Since 2013 (Acosta Vs Mesa County) 9th Circuit Appeal Agreed That "Officers Intentionally Putting Themselves Into Harms Way, Is More Like Premeditation To A Criminal Offense, Then It Is A Defense."

Federal agent-involved shooting investigations conducted by the Justice Department rarely result in criminal charges, one former federal law enforcement agent says. “The bottom line is that these shooting investigations very rarely find the agent in violation of law or policy.”

The self-defense claim ICE, its agents, or their lawyers have made after shootings has historically been proven impossible to refute. And besides self-defense, ICE agents, like all federal agents, are largely protected by qualified immunity.

“The problem is that these federal shooting investigations often take a long, long time and are rarely publicly reported when they conclude, so the passage of time dampens the public demand for accountability,” the former federal law enforcement agent says. Read more: www.wired.com/story/why-ic...