UPDATE: Creuzot released a statement: “This office is proud of its collaboration and cooperation with local police agencies in its efforts to hold everyone accountable for unjustified behavior. We pray that, in the near future, the federal government changes course and cooperates with local police and prosecutors’ offices to fully investigate what appear to be unjustified killings of anyone, including American citizens.”
Creuzot joins eight other prosecutors in the effort, including Travis County DA Jose Garza. “The coalition launches amid growing concerns about warrantless entries, unlawful detentions, and coercive enforcement tactics by federal agents, and it’s intended to ensure that constitutional limits on federal power are actively enforced through lawful institutions,” the new coalition announced in a press release.
Yes, the acronym is FAFO, and its members will meet next month to strategize. How successful they will ultimately be remains to be seen: The New York Times points out that prosecuting any law enforcement officer is difficult, and the supremacy clause in the Constitution does afford federal agents additional protections, “though they do not have absolute immunity, as Vice President JD Vance initially claimed.” Officers can seek a federal court’s protection, for instance, if their actions were authorized by federal law or if they can prove that what they did was “no more than what was necessary and proper.”…