I don’t even know what else to add to this headline. This is so fucked up and tragic scary and infuriating and it will in no way slow the resistance.

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    It was a straight up murder by a trigger happy cop who was told they are immune to any prosecution by the president of the united states.

    ICE is going to start murdering thousands of us and none of them will be held accountable. It’s terrifying that ICE is a bunch of proud boys and fascists with a thirst for blood. We are all in trouble and all of us risk dying just going out to the store if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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    Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.”“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

    Heller said it appeared the woman accelerated, and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles, and could be seen slumped over inside her car.

    Horrifying

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          Psh if you believe that just because they wrote it in a book and have been caught doing it multiple times then you’re just an unfortunate victim of western propaganda.

          /s if that wasn’t obvious

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          I don’t think I can blame Russia. It feels so American made. It feels like American culture. American culture was fucked before trump. It seems more like america fed running a coup to help put modern surveillance in place.

          …and the surveillance is basically already their but tasked by 3rd parties… And the government wants to officially put it in place… But the people wouldn’t allow it… So they resort to this.

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          “Every bad thing that ever happens in my utopian slave state is because of Russia. There is no way, that an american will ever do something against our most beautiful country without being a foreign asset.”

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            Moscow Mitch McConnell… tulsi gabbard repeated Russian propaganda so much she got out in charge of handling it.

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            While I do agree that the US did this to themselves, it is still obvious that Russia fully supports useful idiots in every country around the globe, to split and weaken the countries. In the US, it was Trump, in Germany it’s the AfD. It is interesting to me that it’s almost exclusively Nazis that betray their own contries because they love their ssugar daddy Putin so much.

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            Yea it’s not well documented and incredibly obvious at this point, going back 15+ years. There’s no paper trails to follow or video evidence or military analysis on the topic at all. Totally made up. Comrade

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            am a passificst, so the regularity and casualness of people telling me I should nut up and kill a politician is very disturbing to me on many levels.

            I don’t think pacifists should be arming up and shooting anyone. I think people who cling to their guns and talk about fighting for freedom need to nut up or shut up (and I’m fine with the latter, just shut up already).

            I dont think further violence has ever really fixed this problem and I dont believe that’s going to magically change now.

            I think this is naive. Violence is an incredibly effective tool at degrading organizational capacity, destroying institutional memory, and quelling public opposition.

            When you’re dealing with ICE agents who can cavalierly execute civilians in public, I would love all three of those things to befall them, because I don’t want an organization with the capacity, the knowledge, and the public platform to execute my neighbors.

            But insurgent violence comes with enormous personal risks, it requires professional training, and it rarely produces tangible results in a single lifetime (especially the lifetime of a militant insurgent). So I’m certainly not going to ask people to stick their necks out.

            I just get tired of people posting TikToks in Camo Cosplay, pretending they’re part of some Last Line of Defense Against Tyranny. You’re bad liars. No serious person takes the 2nd amendment seriously as a political deterrent.

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                What I meant by that was that every time this sort of threat has been resolved by violence, it only sets the stage for future violence, because the true problem lies in the systems we use this violence to uphold.

                The systems are the people. And when you kick out a lynchpin - be it MLK or Charlie Kirk - that system can fail.

                The gun nuts do need to stfu about their hollow ideals though. I’d say we are in complete agreement on that note. If they were to actually ‘walk the walk’ however…I dread what that may usher in tbqh.

                We’ve got people being rammed in their cars and shot gangland style through the windows.

                Delta Force is snatching foreign presidents while the sitting president dismisses the need for next year’s local elections.

                You can only waggle your finger saying “It could get even worse” so many times.

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            Tbc, I dont know the most appropriate solution either

            I general strike would be a good first step. It would be very painful and risky given how many folks live paycheck to paycheck and how we have almost no social safety net, but it’s safer and more realistic than everyone trying to go full Rambo or Red Dawn.

            Remember at the start of COVID when we didn’t know how it spread and people were disinfecting their groceries and the feds and the bosses wanted everyone to keep working? It was only when the flight attendants threatened to strike and shut down air travel that they finally relented.

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          Further proof the second amendment is not actually useful for preventing an oppressive government.

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            Just absurd to call it a “right” when nobody seriously believes the police will honor it. Less a civil liberty and more an excuse to ventilate your skull in a frenzied panic of gunfire.

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          One side is trying to convince themselves that we’re not in a civil war and just an election away from getting everything back to normal. We’ve been in a cold civil war for at least a decade and it’s getting hot.

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        While I agree, I don’t see how she would have been better off if carrying. In the end, if we all have guns, more of us are going to die than them. That said… I am thinking that getting a weapon if you can afford it, and afford to store it securely is a good idea.

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      They didn’t say “get out of here” they said “get out of the car. Get out of the fucking car”

      Either way, they murdered her and will get away with it.

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          I’m certain the driver was panicking and unable to process clearly. The DRIVER is not supposed to be the trained professional in this situation.

          I just like to ensure accuracy because the people who agree with the police will seize any error to show why we’re wrong and the media is biased and blah blah blah.

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        It’s also possible that they said “get out of here” just before the video started and then subsequently yelled “get out of the car”. I never heard anything but get out of the car in the video that’s making the rounds, but it’s definitely possible the witness heard it before the video starts. And if that’s the case, then they would’ve been giving conflicting orders, which I’ve seen happen in numerous encounters with police before.

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    The media is painting her as a criminal.

    This is the beginning. Mass shooting of protesters will be next.

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    When will centrists realize that this isn’t a both sides thing?

    I am disgusted and scared, fuck the center of this country that ignored these problems until they tore it apart.

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        Though the Nazis will certainly be able to distinguish between full throated Nazis and centrists, when it comes time for picking the new outgroup. It’s part of why centrists annoy me so much — tolerance towards Nazis is literally a slow motion suicide

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      I mean… it is a “both sides” thing in the sense that there is a heavily armed paramilitary group with no oversight abducting and gunning down anyone they want. Doesn’t matter how you voted or how many maga hats you buy, if they decide you are “an illegal” they’ll toss your wallet away and load you into the back of a van.

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      Being “centrist” shouldn’t mean “I support the republicans and democrats equally” it should mean “I can see the value in social and capitalist policies and think there is a middle-ground between them”

      Anybody who claims to be a “centrist” and supports almost anything Trump’s party is doing is not a centrist, they are right wing.

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        Being “centrist” shouldn’t mean “I support the republicans and democrats equally” it should mean “I can see the value in social and capitalist policies and think there is a middle-ground between them”

        Capitalist systems are so existentially and catastrophically broken that in order to find a middle ground you have to turn off the rational part of your brain. Centrists cannot handle the implications of this so they consciously or subconsciously thought terminate back to “I support the republicans and democrats equally”.

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      Centrist “independants” demanded respectability politics while centrist democrats turned a blind eye to the suffering of workers. Well its too damn late for the centrists, nobody is buying their policies of “infinite economic growth” and “sustainable but slow progress”. Workers are rising up and its clear the only path to liberation is from workers unity.

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      Centrist here.

      1. Fuck off with your anti-centrist bigotry and caricatured centrist views.

      2. It is a both sides thing, because your fucking pussies of a Democrat party are showing what wealth hoarding, vote chasing cowards they are, by keeping their heads down and mounting zero opposition to your government being seized by a populist dictator. They are clearly not a viable alternative to this atrocity. We need to replace the whole two party, capitalism-corrupted system, not just ensure that your supposed “good guy party” wins the next election.

      3. Being a centrist doesn’t make me a milquetoast appeaser. It means I reject the dichotomy that the only alternative to this populism is more capital-first liberal greed.

      4. Your view of centrists, casting them all as people who can’t decide between the two obvious alternatives, rather than people who reject both, is the one thing that both the left and the right agree on. It’s propaganda to keep one of the two extractive elites in power and prevent us from ever even discussing actual alternatives.

      5. Same thing, for math lovers: if you take a 1D slice through a n-dimensional normal distribution of views, the more perpendicular a dimension is to yours, the less correlated they are, the more those views will tend to map to the center of the dimension you’re insisting on, despite being actually just as distinct. It’s your insistence on this 1D view that creates centrists, and your dismissal of them is propaganda to prevent real change.

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        Assuming you’re in USA, you do understand that there’s only right and extreme right ? There is no proper representation for the center or the left over there. I hope you vote closest to your convictions though, as not voting is akin to voting for the elected party. “No vote” actually won the last elections, too bad “No vote” isn’t a center party. You got extreme right instead.

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    This is fascism.

    People are dying. People will continue to die. I’m saddened and scared by what is happening

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      Unfortunately, even if we make it through this, a lot of people are going to die. Hell, a lot died already thanks to orange shit mussolini downplaying covid.

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      Idk what’s scarier, masked federal agents executing Americans on the streets or Americans continuing to do nothing about it. They, as a people and a society, are okay enough with this to not go out of their way to stop it.

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        Ahhhh yes it’s actually our fault! How silly of us! I live in rural Arkansas without enough money to buy gas to get to Minnesota, so please do tell what you expect me to do.

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          Inform people what happened, explain to the ones that you know will listen and understand how as welly why it’s wrong. How ICE is serving as an internal terror organization within this country. Not everyone can go out shooting but make a meal for those who do kinda thing.

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            What makes you think I don’t do all of those things? I’m just not out killing people and then dying myself so what’s the fucking point right? Blood for the blood god!

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              All of this is happening in the most armed country in the world and there has yet been a single major incident where people have been shot by activists, as far as I’m aware. No Kyle Rittenhouse style incident, no crazed lone gun man shooting ICE officers, no tense standoffs between police and armed demonstrators gone awry.

              Being on the receiving end of the opposition to Trump is safer than attending an American school.

              It’s not that you should be going in to the streets killing people at random. Violence should be avoided if possible. But it’s odd that things are so peaceful in such a violent country. There is no smoke, thus it’s hard to believe there’s a fire.

              If Trump feared the opposition, there would be mass arrests on bogus domestic terrorism charges – violence or not.

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                I read Judge Karen Immergut’s final ruling in early November that blocked the National Guard from remaining in Portland. Its main point was that the violence they were sent to Portland to quell did not exist in reality.

                In other words, Portland avoiding violent resistance allowed the judge to kick out the National Guard. The courts are holding, and so is the military. It’s taking time, but they are not all going along with this, and both the judiciary and the military are required for a successful coup. In reality he’s losing power faster than he can consolidate it.

                Don’t be blinded by single events. That’s what they want. If you do not want a fucking occupation of your city based on the lie that they are there to quell violence, then violence is not the correct response at this point.

                Given that avoiding midterms altogether is the entire point of all this escalation – Venezuela, ICE murdering citizens, all of it – I will not judge anyone sane enough to avoid it for now.

                I suggest you do the same. By which I mean “Violence should be avoided, but . . .” is not actually an anti-violence statement.

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          anything you can, with anyone else who will. you want to know what doesn’t help? doing nothing.

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            So many people act like it’s no big deal to start a violent revolution against the most militarized government in history and it’s fucking absurd.

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              not at all. but what it is, is necessary.

              i know it’s fucking crazy, but here we are. America has been taken over by fascists. They are not just going to leave. The suffering, for not just America but the world, will only get worse until the American public, the State governments, the military, do what needs to be done.

              I’m sorry that America is at the point of Civil War, but it is. That fact isn’t just going to go away. No one is coming to save America.

              I honestly think, deep down, most Americans know this. But the reality of it, the shock of it, is just too great. The cognitive dissonance is too overwhelming.

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                but what it is, is necessary.

                WRONG. Becoming violent at this point is the single most idiotic, stupid thing we could do right now.

                That’s what this escalation is designed to provoke.

                Do you really think the US government does not know how to deal with violent protests? It’s what they want.

                “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” – John Lennon

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                  sure bud. good luck hugging your way to freedom while ppl die.

                  we all recall how historically fascism was defeated through hugs and jokes.

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        Americans doing nothing about it is far scarier. We all knew the first thing has been coming for decades.

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          A nation of savages that cant risk their own creature comforts to stop pedophiles and murderers. Remember that any one of them could be a mass shooter, they should be banned from entering other countries for nation security.

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    Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. Anyone who doesn’t think that organization needs to be completely dismantled at minimum either needs to wake the fuck up or is a fascist.

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      after seeing this video, I am now of the position that every ICE agent should be attacked on sight

      this is indefensible

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      Every member needs to be publicly hanged at minimum. There are zero individuals in the organization worth keeping in society.

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    While speaking at an unrelated press conference in Brownsville, Texas, Kristi Noem said today’s shooting in Minneapolis was provoked by an “act of domestic terrorism”.

    The homeland security went on to say that the immigration agents on the scene were “attempting to push out their vehicle” due to the snow in the city. “The woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him,” Noem said.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/07/donald-trump-venezuela-greenland-oil-childcare-us-politics-live

    This dumb bitch seems to think outright lying - when video shows a completely different story - is the way to go.

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        It’s working. Republicans/MAGA are totally okay with anyone that doesn’t like them being murdered. They’re all enemies and should be approached as though they’re dangerous.

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        and 2020s internet is a shocking direct parallel to the nazi mass media mechanism in the 1930s and 1940s.

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      Russia’s authoritarian playbook (which the current GOP administration is using) isn’t about lying in an articulate way. It’s about flooding the zone with excuses and lies such that the average person will choose to tune it out rather than to engage.

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        Can confirm. I’ve tuned it out. I can’t anymore. I’m sorry. I choose happiness. It’s pushing me further and further offline.

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        I’m sure that pointing out the narrative’s glaringly obvious inconsistencies is going to land Russia in very hot water over the shoot down of that civilian airliner over Ukraine in 2014. Any day now. Any day now… Just one more “le epic debunk”…

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        I do think you’re absolutely right. I know people doing exactly that — checking out — and it does seem like a common response. It is understandable, a lot of people just can’t deal with all that garbage being firehosed into their faces, and the level of crazy ratcheting up through the ceiling. And that reaction of checking out is one of the intended effects of the strategy of “flooding the zone”. Glad you pointed that out.

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      So, I live here, it’s also 45 degrees today. I don’t think you can even get stuck in the snow today. Unless you’re not on pavement.

      Not that the lies need to be pointed out, they’re obvious without that… but still.

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      This dumb bitch seems to think outright lying - when video shows a completely different story - is the way to go.

      It’s all she’s got, so she’s going with it, carefully reading the statutes, so she can make sure she hits all her bullet points.

      Bottom line: This a manufactured murder, meant to inflame the citizens, and become a rationalization for Martial Law, and suspension of the Midterm election. MAGA cannot lose the House majority, or else Democrats will have investigative powers, with full subpoena and arrest powers. They are unlikely to squander the opportunity this time, like they did under Biden.

      So MAGA almost have to stop the election, and this is the start of it. We have never missed an election in this country, not even during the Civil War, so suspending this one, at this point in our history must be a BRIGHT RED LINE. If he invokes Martial Law, and suspends the election, it’s the end of American Democracy, and it’s Civil War.

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        manufactured murder

        Yes. That’s one of the most striking things I got from the video, that the murderer went from getting out of his SUV to shooting his gun in just a few seconds, as though that was what he got out of his car to do.

        Also, I have gun experience but not with automatics, so I don’t know enough to say with certainty one way or another, but I did not see him disengage his safety, meaning that there is some non-zero chance he already had the safety disengaged when he got out of his vehicle.

        All of your points are excellent, and you’re right. We HAVE to avoid violent response – for now – if we do not want to speed up the destruction of what is left of our democracy.

        EDITED to correct myself: I watched the video again and the shooter was already standing toward the hood of her car; the individual exiting the SUV I referred to above was not the actual shooter.

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        somehow, the DNC i cant trust them to not squander it. they only ever use as a campaign talking point and then drop the issue once in power, thereby achieving nothing. Plus the donors are both parties will insure nothing will happen. the only way things will change if there is more aoc, or bernie types in congress, not AIPAC SHIlls.theres at least 13 democrats in senate that is up for re-election this year, chuck shcumer is trying to shield them by using 8 sacrificial lambs that arnt up for re-election.

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        Democrats will have investigative powers, with full subpoena and arrest powers. They are unlikely to squander the opportunity this time, like they did under Biden.

        Source?

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          For what? The fact that they’d have investigative powers? That’s the Constitution.

          That they are unlikely to squander the opportunity this time? That’s personal speculation, but I doubt a Democratic House is going to sit still this time. They don’t have a president in office to protect, for one thing.

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        There are no circumstances which would allow for the suspension of elections.

        Stop spreading BS. People can fight back today and vote out fascism when elections come around.

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          Jfc I can’t believe anyone still clings to this hope.

          Must be under 30 and/or failed History class.

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          Did you just wake up, Rip Van Winkle? These people don’t care about “mechanisms.” WTF? If he wants to suspend elections, he’ll do it, make up some cockamamie excuse, and every MAGA will buy it.

          All he has to do is declare Martial Law, and he can do anything he wants, or at least he will feel that he can, and he will exploit that illegitimate power mercilessly. When we’re under Martial Law, suspending elections will be the least of our problems.

          I was also predicting that he would definitely attack Venezuela for their oil, and plenty of people disparaged me for that, too, and here we are. I’ve taken a lot of heat for many of my predictions that have come true over the last decade. It seems that many people still don’t believe that Donald Trump is far worse than we even know, and that however bad we think he might behave, he will always surprise us, and be worse than we expected.

          He’s already been “joking,” multiple times, that he thinks they should suspend the Midterm. We have already seen many, many times, that’s how he floats an idea in advance, getting people ready for it. He’s going to try to suspend the Midterm Election. He has to. His life and freedom literally depends on it.

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            The point is that elections are something that people can come together and have regardless of his will.

            This is going to get violent sooner or later either way.

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              Elections are a state-managed process, and no Blue state is going to honor his suspension, and I’ll bet quite a few Red states won’t like it either, and defy that order as well. They have a lot more elections going on than Congressional Reps.

              It will be an interesting and unique confrontation. And MAGA will likely lose the battle, and then they get desperate and dangerous.

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      To be fair, it is the result of domestic terrorism. But pretty much the opposite of the way she means.

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      Look at those Twitter comments watching a video of the guy literally throwing himself in front of a moving vehicle, and agreeing she tried to run him over. Nevermind that we have idea why they were even demanding it in the first place.

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      This dumb bitch seems to think outright lying - when video shows a completely different story - is the way to go.

      All available evidence suggests she’s correct (about lying, that is … it’s never stopped any of her MAGA superiors).

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    I’m glad I’m not American. The US is a failed country right now. Zero respect for human life. I never intended to visit it as a tourist, and now I know I won’t.

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    Police surround your car and they are trying to get in and you want to leave?

    American police are allowed to kill you.

    You surround a police car and you make them feel unsafe and they want to leave?

    American police are allowed to kill you.

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      God the fucking comments on that video saying she was trying to run him over and “she wasn’t obeying an LEO”.

      1. You can see the shooters feet not in front of the vehicle between the legs of the guy grabbing the door as she starts to turn. He was not about to be run over.

      2. The shooter had his gun drawn approaching the front of the car to be able to shoot her that fast. No one else had their gun out. Why? That fuckhead is trigger happy and ready to kill.

      3. How do we know she wasn’t trying to get out of the way and we can’t hear if she was saying anything like “let me move first”.

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        Didn’t deserve to be shot in the face. She was unarmed. Also looks really fucking guilty when the shooter covers their face and flees the scene.

        I wonder if they will be “unable to find him” because of the mask. If they can “Identify” Luigi by his eyebrows they should have no trouble prosecuting this human trash.

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          It’s not a matter of if they can prosecute it’s a matter of will. DHS is already claiming the victim was a domestic terrorist.

          Every single person that supports the Trump regime after watching that video should be treated with the same contempt as Nazis.

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            I’d fear for my life and safety if I ever came across an ICE roadblock from now on. I’d feel unsafe stopping. Take that as you will.

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          What pissed me off, especially on places like Reddit, is the “no doxxing” rule. YOU CANT DOXX A PUBLIC SERVANT. Part of being a government worker is transparency and accountability. You can’t hide behind anonymity.

          The concept of doxxing goes way back before people tied their real identity to their online one. “Doxxing” or “providing documents” is the act of tying someone’s real life identity to their anonymous one against their will. It is not identifying someone in public or using it to shield them from due criticism for their actions.

          You can’t do that with people who are supposed to be unmasked in the first place, and are legally required to identify themselves as government agents as part of their job. It’s not “doxxing”, it’s basic fucking accountability and transparency.

          When Luigi happened we knew everything about his life. This happens and we don’t know who this asshat is. It’s complete bullshit. Any outlet protecting this piece of shit when they would air the dirty laundry of me and you out for the whole world in a heartbeat needs to be blacklisted.

          Edit: That fuckers name is Jonathan Ross. He murdered Renee Nicole Good. May he know no peace.

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          Not saying what the cop did was in any way justified, but a motor vehicle can absolutely be used as a deadly weapon. It happens plenty.

          There are absolutely instances where using lethal force on a driver who’s in possession of no other weapons is justified. This just isn’t one of them.

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        Pretending for a moment that she was trying to run over ICE, killing her does not take her foot off the gas pedal.

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          As I said in another comment, at that speed and angle he’s getting a broken foot or leg at worst. This isn’t like when that other terrorist ran over Heather Heyer in Charlottesville in 2017. Or any number of the other vehicular based terrorist attacks where the driver was going fast.

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            He also put himself in that situation. Fuggin moron intentionally put his body almost in front of a vehicle, then continued to shoot at her while following the car.

            He wanted an excuse.

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        He positioned himself so that the driver was made to look as if they were going to run him over. He could have easily stepped away and the gone after them later if they needed to stop them. This was so unnecessary.

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          My opinion is that he was trying to get to the driver’s side and she accelerated but did not see him. He had his gun out to threaten her and opened fire instead of getting out of the way because he’s just the type of thin skinned piece of shit ICE hires.

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        That’s such a (US) American thing. “Someone coughed when the cop didn’t order it? Deserves to be executed right then and there.” I see it all the time in comments about killings like this and it never stops weirding me out.

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          And it very well SHOULD weird you out. I cannot understand the mental gymnastics these fuckheads do to feel okay about being a nazi.

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        What’s even worse, she was likely completely unaware of the shooter being there as she was focused on the guy trying to open her door after being told by another guy to leave.

        One guy tells them to leave. Another gets his fweelings hurt by stuff the driver is saying. The third guy had gun drawn and safety off, ready to shoot. Like, wtf…

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          Yeah probably why she was trying to GTFO. If they snatched her she could end up in CECOT for all she knows.

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      As a fellow MN resident, I’m right there with you. The trump gestapo needs to get the fuck out of our state!

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        They need to get the fuck out of the “people who breathe” group tbh.

        The absolute least offensive person in their ranks is the worst racist anyone knows. So I’m fine with racism being a kil on sight offense, at least if they’re wearing their robes- I mean uniforms.

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      Yeah, notice how fast the shooter checked to make sure his mask was up and ran from the scene, didn’t go after the vehicle. He knew what he did and ran.

      What’s that phrase “if you did nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide” (granted I hate that statement, just the irony of who did the shooting, who did the running, and who they likely support…)

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      Yeah, and the state is going to have to deal with the shitshow the Feds left for us too. It’s a mess. I was also literally shaking, pacing back and fourth, on the phone with a friend of mine.