In July, in Ontario, California, ICE agents pursued an illegal alien into a medical clinic. Several of the clinic workers challenged the ICE agents, interfering with their legal arrest of the illegal alien, and two of them allegedly assaulted the ICE agents.
Now a grand jury has returned indictments, and these medical workers counting the cost.
This is good news. It's almost like "equal treatment under the law" was still a thing.
There is, of course, video of these medical workers interfering with ICE agents. See for yourself:
Also in July, Fox News' Bill Melugin reported that the two medical staffers were facing criminal charges.
Now a grand jury has returned indictments, and these two medical staffers will be facing a trial.
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Look, freedom of speech applies to us all. These same medical personnel, had they remained on the sidelines and shouted, would have been within their rights, as long as they did not interfere with federal agents in the conduct of their duties. These same medical personnel are free, in their spare time, to wave signs and shout on the sidewalks, so long as they do not interfere with their fellow citizens who are going about their business. They are free to write letters to the editor of their local papers in opposition to ICE and President Trump's immigration policies. They are free to petition their congressional representatives. The First Amendment guarantees this.
But they are not free to physically interfere with federal officers in the legal conduct of their duties. They are not free to interfere with those officers legally detaining an illegal alien, with the presumed intent of repatriating him back to where he rightfully belongs.
These people may have acted without thinking. They clearly didn't think through the possible consequences of their actions. From the video, it sure looks like an emotional response, not a rational one. But that doesn't matter. It's illegal to interfere with law enforcement in the legal conduct of their duties.
Now, assuming a federal jury convicts them - due process, after all, is also a right guaranteed to them by the Constitution - they will learn that their actions have consequences.
What is it Democrats are always saying? No one is above the law?