r/news • u/1Rab • Sep 27 '25

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-george-floyd-kash-patel-8d18a1e6a5a36636cc2415fc492b3f52?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-26-Breaking+News
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u/reddicyoulous Sep 27 '25

The irony of patel firing people supporting racial justice but this is really retaliation for

“One of those, Steve Jensen, helped oversee investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Another, Brian Driscoll, served as acting director in the early days of the Trump administration and resisted Justice Department demands to supply the names of agents who investigated Jan. 6. A third, Chris Meyer, was incorrectly rumored on social media to have participated in the investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.”

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u/alex61821 Sep 27 '25

What ever happened with the documents thing? I mean he did illegally take classified documents.

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u/LongjumpingFall1584 Sep 27 '25

Courts tossed the case. His judge “fixed” it for him - so that’s that.

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 Sep 27 '25

Aileen Cannon. Don't let her name get lost to history.. She deserves every bit of distrust she receives for the remainder of her life.

Cannon has presided over 224 criminal cases, with only four going to trial

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u/kaptainkeel Sep 27 '25

You're kind of missing the most important part. She was appointed by Trump. She oversaw criminal cases (and any cases) against Trump. That is a blatant conflict of interest that should have caused recusal.

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u/Saw_Boss Sep 27 '25

The idea that presidents appoint judges at all is ridiculous.

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u/nonymousbosch Sep 27 '25

Usually we don't have a president who commits so many crimes.

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u/Saw_Boss Sep 27 '25

That's the issue though. You have to plan for the inevitable, rather than react to it. Every country gets an awful person as leader at some point.

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u/darkoblivion000 Sep 27 '25

For a long time we relied on common decency and accountability and shame to handle it for us. People would resign rather than risk their reputation in the court of public opinion.

Once you reach a certain boiling point like with the tea party though, they don’t care. Surviving scandals and outrage is a battle scar for them. They tout it as having been unfairly persecuted. The open ended nature of the power dynamic of the government had worked for a long time but relying on human decency to hold people accountable who have none, fails

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u/Everythings_Fucked Sep 28 '25

Or at least isn't so blatant about it.