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This week’s events provide a new chapter in the diminishment of Latino agency and dignity; members of Congress were denied entry to do their jobs, and in the case of Padilla, forcibly removed and detained.

In the case of Rep. McIver, she—unlike the Capitol rioters—had the right to be at the detention center where she was arrested, so it may in fact have been the officers who pushed her out who used illegal force.

In the case of the Los Angeles protester, there’s little evidence in the charging document that he knew that the face shields he distributed would be—or were—used by people who engaged in civil disorder.

Instead, he invoked this completely different statute that applies in a much more limited set of circumstances—as relevant here, in the case of “rebellion.”

In the case of the disappearing consignment at Brussels Airport, the drug was originally flown from India to Austria.