Thread by @AnnJacobsMKE

Let's discuss the *actual* charges against Judge Hannah Dugan using the Complaint against her.
tl;dr - she sent the man in question into the public hallway where agents there to arrest him watched him walk by and did nothing. 1/
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¶12 - They had a 6-member task force including one ICE, one CBP, 2 FBI and 2 DEA agents. Whew!
¶10 - because of courthouse security, they knew he would be unarmed.
6 people for one unarmed guy. OK. 2/

Starting at around ¶20 there's a lengthy discussion about Judge Dugan's demeanor - "visibly angry" and "walking quickly." Have they never met a judge? Do you think they like having their calendar messed up? Would the same words have been applied to a male judge? 3/

¶32 a discussion about Judge Dugan "forcefully" and "stern[ly] instructing the man in question to go out the jury door. BUT! It is not only a door to the jury room. It is *also* an exit to the *public* hallway. You know, the hallway where law enforcement is waiting. 4/

Let's jump to the heart of the matter - the lede is buried at ¶33. Per the complaint, the judge apparently sent the man TO THE PUBLIC HALLWAY WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS WAITING. You'll note they sort of gloss over this part. It's as if he miraculously appeared there. 5/

Then what happens? The two DEA agents SEE him and do [checks notes] nothing. They don't arrest him, they don't do anything. They watch him? 6/

So 2 law enforcement officers, there to arrest an unarmed man, just watch him. Meanwhile, the man & his lawyer go to the elevators. Note this weird comment to try to make walking to the elevators sound nefarious: 7/

Here's why this is absurd - there are 2 banks of elevators in the courthouse: 1 goes to the ground floor, and 1 goes to the 9th street exit which is where the parking structure is. In fact, there are even SIGNS telling you which bank of elevator goes where. 8/

So - yes - you sometimes walk past one set of elevators so you can get where you want to go. If you are not going to the parking structure (which most people are), you take the other set of elevators because they are less crowded. 9/

Suspicious? No - literally something hundreds of people do daily in the courthouse. This attempt to make it into something is just dumb (especially since they claim to be familiar with the elevators - clearly not). 10/

Back to the complaint - instead of arresting the man (that's why they're there, right?) 1 of the DEA agents hops in the elevator with him, having alerted the other agents. Pity - he can't speak Spanish so he has no idea what the man & his lawyer are saying. 11/

They then have some sort of keystone cop moment where the man is at the ground level but the agents go to the lower level and have to race around to find him. They chase him and arrest him. Which they could have done in the public hallway but chose not to. 12/

All of which is to say - the attempt to make this into something criminal on the part of the judge who sent him to the public hall where law enforcement was waiting requires a lot of reaching and a lot of work and a lot of pejorative statements designed to taint the complaint.13/

Again - *Per the complaint* the judge sent him into the public hallway directly to the DEA agents waiting there for him. They just inexplicably chose not to act. This was their choice. 14/

The further attempt to sensationalize the matter by arresting Judge Dugan - instead of simply asking her to appear - was wholly unnecessary and certainly appears to be designed solely to intimidate. Very unfortunate. 15/

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