• meco03211@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Unless there is indisputable video of this exactly as the thugs claim I will not give them the benefit of the doubt. They are trained to outright lie about circumstances.

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    The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release that the officer was trying to arrest a man who had a history of reckless driving, but he refused officers’ orders and instead drove his car at them. An ICE officer who was hit and dragged by the car felt his life was threatened and opened fire, the department said.

    Federal goons tried to disappear a motorist with a post-facto justification of “public safety,” and the motorist chose Door #2.

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      6 months ago

      felt his life was threatened and opened fire

      They always feel their lives are threatened. This counts for nothing. Without further evidence, this may just be another lie from self-justifying murderous cops.

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      How do we know that officer’s definition of reckless driving actually matches the State’s definition. There are 50 different States with varying traffic laws, ICE is federal and traffic law has nothing to do with their jurisdiction.

      Unless they had an immigration-related reason for attempting to detain him, everything should be ignored. They had no reason to even accost the man.

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    I don’t believe one of these losers was hit and dragged by the car, then was able to get a shot off to kill the driver like John Wick.

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    This is going to be normalized

    If a ‘suspect’ is being approached or threatened by ICE officers or whatever officers … many people will start to think twice about it all.

    • Will you just give up and let them take you away … to prison … with no trial, no law, no recourse … and basically end your life … especially if you are poor and don’t have much to begin with … and no one to help you
    • or do you just go out in a blaze of glory and fight because your life is basically over any way

    This is the reason why laws evolved over the past few hundred years to remove Capital Punishment for many things … if you create laws where you severely punish people for the most minor things … people will eventually figure out that if you are given no choice, no opportunity, no empathy and no chance at proving your innocence - then people will realize that their lives are over.

    Either you give up and let the government take away your life or you stand, fight and die anyway.