»But Kaufman warned that if it emerged the chief prosecutor was applying for more arrest warrants, for far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich over their promotion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, then "all options would be off the table".«

»Kaufman told Khan: "They will destroy you and they will destroy the court."

Khan and his wife, who also attended the meeting, both understood this to be a threat, according to the note of the meeting seen by MEE.«

»Kaufman asked Khan if a recent report that he was preparing warrant applications for Israeli suspects related to the West Bank was true.

The conversation took place before it was reported that Khan’s office was preparing further arrest warrants for far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich over their promotion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.«

»Khan did not respond to Kaufman's question but asked why Israel did not "proceed with complementarity", which would entail investigating the alleged war crimes in the domestic courts.

He said the Israeli attorney general "can easily look into this".

Kaufman said this was impossible, but told him there could be a "non-criminal, non-investigative process" and Khan could give the evidence he had to that "Israeli process".«

»But he warned that these options would be "off the table" if it emerged that Khan had applied for more warrants.

According to the note, Kaufman also told Khan that if the existing warrants were not withdrawn, or if he applied for more warrants, "they will destroy you and they will destroy the court".

The note records that after the meeting, Khan's wife, who is also a lawyer, said to him, "That was a clear threat." Khan agreed.«

»MEE has been told by multiple sources that on 16 March 2024, Khan's extensive team of lawyers and researchers had decided they would be in a position to apply for warrants by the end of April.

On 25 March, Khan informed the US administration of his decision and forewarned them the warrants would be applied for by the end of April.

Over the following two months, pressure on Khan mounted.«

»On 23 April David Cameron, then the British foreign secretary, threatened in a phone call with Khan that the UK would defund and withdraw from the ICC if the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.

Last month MEE revealed details of the call, in which Cameron told Khan applying for the warrants would be like "dropping a hydrogen bomb".«

»It was on 29 April 2024, over a month after the decision to apply for warrants was made, that one of Khan’s staff made harassment allegations against him.

The allegations were referred to the court’s Internal Oversight Mechanism (IOM), its investigative body, on 3 May.

But an investigation was closed days later after the woman said she did not want to cooperate with it.«

»This means that when Khan announced he was applying for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant on 20 May, there was no investigation against him.

Months later, in October, as speculation began to increase that ICC judges would soon issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, an anonymous account on social media platform X began circulating details of the sexual misconduct allegations against Khan.«

But this incident with the Irish gentleman illustrates a seeming paradox in criminal justice: why adding more US cops *cannot* reduce domestic violence.

1. Incidents of domestic violence involving Black women are under-reported.

2. Because Black women are *less likely* to call the police. But why?

The woman in this case called 911 on her Irish boyfriend. Because she thought cops were here to help.

But instead of helping, they started a nightmare spiral of false imprisonment, wearing unsanitary prison clothes with knife holes and blood stains from previous victims.

He could have died.

Her bar for calling 911 on her Irish boyfriend is now much higher. She's forced to make an awful choice between balancing her safety, and the safety of a potentially abusive domestic partner.

If she gets this balance wrong, and waits too long? The results for her own safety could be disastrous.

If you can understand why she would be less likely to call 911 on her Irish boyfriend in future, then you can understand why Black women in the US are less likely to call the cops on their Black boyfriends in similar situations.

(We haven't even talked about the dynamic of cops abusing their wives)

If you read the story carefully, you'll notice that his harshest and scariest treatment happened when he was transferred to... a bureau of prisons facility in Atlanta Georgia.

Basically, they treated him like a Black US citizen who is presumed innocent and is awaiting trial. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Like I said, there is no person that has been to ICE detention, and a US pretrial facility, be that federal or county jail or Rikers, that thinks that the ICE conditions are worse.

Roughly 1 in 5 Black men in the US will experience this Kafkaesque unfair imprisonment mistreatment in their lifetime.

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