"So Boris, here's the legal standard in a situation like this. Police officers, including federal officers, including ICE agents, are allowed to use lethal force to discharge their firearms only if it's reasonably necessary to prevent imminent, meaning immediate, soon occurring, lethal harm, meaning death or serious bodily injury. That's basically the legal standard here, replied the former federal prosecutor."
"So the question that needs to be asked is: was this shooting necessary to prevent someone from getting immediately killed or maimed? It can be the officer himself, it can be a fellow ICE officer, it could be a state police officer, it could be a bystander. But that's the standard that investigators and prosecutors are going to have to apply here."
Elie Honig called for a thorough, independent investigation into the Minneapolis shooting of a woman by an ICE agent. Federal and local officials provided conflicting summaries of events on the ground. The legal standard for law enforcement use of lethal force requires that it be reasonably necessary to prevent imminent death or serious bodily injury. Investigators must determine whether the shooting was necessary to prevent immediate killing or maiming of the officer, a fellow officer, or a bystander. A coordinated, independent inquiry across agencies is needed to apply the legal standard and assess accountability.
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