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13 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
According to Mayor Mike Elliot, the police chief who was scolded by the media for using the term "riot" has now resigned. The Acting Chief then called the situation in the department "chaotic" with only an hour's notice of the change in leadership. jonathanturley.org/2021/04/13/don…
...The resignation of the officer in the shooting is a predictable move from a criminal defense standpoint. It was likely inevitable that she would be fired but this removes her being subject to the internal review process...
... Mayor Elliott says that he has asked that a Blue Lives flag outside of the police department has been removed as "inflammatory." newsweek.com/thin-blue-line… It has now been removed.
...Elliott says that his office did not approve of the use of tear gas and that they do not support such means of crowd control. He indicated that such use would not be approved for tonight.
...Elliott was attacked for not being fired immediately. Elliott just responded however that "I have not accepted her resignation." That is a curious statement. She cannot be forced to stay in the employ of the department.

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There is talk of just stipulating to allow Rep. Beutler's statement into the record. If so, it would be odd since Rep. Raskin already discussed the statement in the record. It would be an exit ramp back to where the Senate was before Raskin threw the Senate trial into disarray.
...If this is the result, it would clearly show that Raskin sandbagged the Senate Democrats who did not want to be seen as opposing the managers (despite just saying that they did not want witnesses). jonathanturley.org/2021/02/13/wit…
...It is a stipulation. The resolution shows that Raskin sandbagged the Senate Democrats. This merely enters hearsay into the record. However, the statement of Beutler also contradicts the House managers that this is truly new evidence.
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Questions are likely to start tonight. A few questions for the managers would help clarify some of these issues...
1. You did not give the President a chance to formally respond and did not call witnesses before or after the snap impeachment. You then told us that we should consider due process a "privilege" and not required in a Senate trial, but ....
...shouldn't due process be the expectation of both the Senate and the American people in a constitutional trial? The Senate should consider basic principles of fairness and due process in judging the House case, correct?
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Raskin is detailing reckless comments by Trump for years and is suggesting that he has been inciting violence for years. It is an argument that opens the door for similar pictures and arguments of rioting for years from the left by the Trump team.
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Again, this is not an argument designed to convict on the specific charge of incitement to insurrection. It is more of an argument to enrage than to convict on the specific article of impeachment...
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Raskin just did precisely what I discussed in this column in citing the news story just before the trial. The House did nothing for weeks to lock in such testimony in hearings but is now citing witnesses from media reports. jonathanturley.org/2021/02/09/mod…
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The managers are again quoting aides from statements in the media, the very witnesses that the House has declined to call for testimony for the last four weeks. Why? jonathanturley.org/2021/01/30/why…
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