• Teppichbrand@feddit.org
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    These people were waiting for years, maybe even decades, to finally get to shoot a human in their own county. It’s incredibly scary. 1000008613

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    WTF? That was an execution! It was literally a firing squad! Every one of those Apes should get the death penalty.

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      In a firing squad, all but one or two rifles are firing blanks so that no single shooter would ever know for certain that it was their bullet, and therefore it wouldn’t weigh on their conscience.

      These people all wanted in on it.

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        I was taught that all the rounds are live, except one, so the victim takes multiple shots, but every shooter can convince themselves that they had the blank round, and didn’t kill.

        Otherwise you take a chance on those one or two shots not being mortal, and having to reload.

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      Genuine question - the agent firing the gun will go to trial, yes? Federal agents in the US can not just kill random people in the without going to trial before an objective court?

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        It may take time, but he will be prosecuted. So will Renee Good’s murderer.

        Don’t listen to the trolls, they said the same thing about George Floyd’s killers, who are sitting in prison at this moment.

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          In the time since George Floyd’s murder, much has changed. The courts are much more in Trumps pocket, and to the extent that they can male this a federal case, he’ll just pardon the murderers again.

          In the mean time, the Dems will focus on stepping on their own necks to prevent the GOP from doing it.

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          It may take time, but he will be prosecuted. So will Renee Good’s murderer.

          Also, if you concentrate and push hard enough, monkeys will pop out of your butt.

          I think many people think things will eventually go back to “normal”. MAGA isn’t going to let that happen. The democrats are far too weak and have no idea how to fight MAGA brainwashing. The only plus side is MAGA is nothing without Trump. When he dies, if the US hasn’t gone full civil war, then MAGA might start to die.

          I think MAGA wants a civil war though. They’re have too much fun killing people in Minnesota and these inbred fucks probably can’t wait to roll tanks into a city and open fire.

          If you lean left, these people want you dead.

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        Hahahahaha, he wont see the inside of a squad car let alone a jailhouse or courtroom.

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    Wild he not only point blank shot, but there was possibility of cross fire and he fired directly next to another person’s ear.

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      These guys were hired en masse and vetted by AI, we can’t really expect them to understand gun safety.

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        You’re not wrong, but this particular motherfucker has worked for Border Patrol for 8 years. I see a lot of people talking about untrained, inexperienced thugs, and they are, but this is what they do with training and experience.

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    MAGAs after a school shooting: “Stay away from my guns! The second amendment protects me from a tyraniccal government! 😎🇺🇸🦅”

    MAGAs when a tyrannical government murders somebody who was exercising his constitutional rights by concealed carrying with a permit: “He had a gun! He’s a domestic terrorist! 🫨🚨🤬”

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      It was always this way. White man with a rifle is okay, brown man is obviously an agitator.

      Guns are an oppressive force in the US. They have never and will never be used to stop oppression, just lead us to the new oppressive regime.

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    Tim Walz needs to activate the National Guard, state police, and local police to protect the community of the Twin Cities from fascist invasion and occupation.

    Else, ICE will keep killing, and it’s only a matter of time before regular citizens take up protection for themselves.

    And they’re right to do so.

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    This one is even more brutal than I could have imagined. Do note that the same person who murders this man is also the same one who was pepper spraying someone who was slipping on ice and couldn’t stand.

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    Wow. That is so clear. You can see the agent watch the gun pulled from the back and once it was removed the agent shot him.

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      and he’s even aiming for a good moment, it’s not that he upholstered and inadvertently gave off a shot, he did pull the trigger in a conscious and determined action

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      Sorry im out of the loop on this, was it a gun or a phone? Is NYT saying phone?

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        He was holding a phone, but had a gun bolstered on his hip. The gun was removed from his holster by the guy in the grey jacket moments before the ICE agent opened fire.

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        The guy who as holding a phone and filming ICE. It also appears he had a gun on him.

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      My theory is that he saw a hand pull the gun and panicked because he thought it was the victim’s hand.

      He clearly panicked specifically to something, it looks like he panicked at seeing a fellow “agent” pulling the victim’s weapon. Not the weapon itself which he seems to be watching before drawing, but the hand removing the weapon.

      Since he had tunnel vision on the gun, he failed to recognize the hand removing the gun as being separate from the victim.

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        Watch the video again, he drew his gun after the other officer had removed the victim’s gun. He then took the time to back away and reposition before shooting the victim

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        It seems pretty obvious that this was a retaliatory killing for the protests Friday and they targeted the guy with a gun so they could justify it for self defense

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          Exactly what I was thinking. The murderer who fired the first shot saw the gun, and even though it was another agent taking it, he saw it as a green light to execute Alex.

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      most def. the conditions people are facing in custody must be ghastly if this is what they think they can get away with in public

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    Yep, that’s an execution. So disgusting to see people defending this on other social media platforms.

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        Everything I’ve seen so far is conservativesboot lickers saying “he should have stayed home”, “he brought a gun to interfere with federal agents”, “FAFO”, etc.

        Basically they’ve all given up on the idea of free speech and the right to bear arms, and have gone full on “we love big government”.

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          It’s not that they suddenly love big government, it’s that they don’t actually think… period. Politics to these people has nothing to do with actual reality, and none of these people actually give a single thought about how politics actually impact their own lives. These people treat politics like a sports team. They are Republicans, so they’re on team Red. Everything their team does is automatically good, because that’s their team. Everything the other team does is bad, because that’s the other team.

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            They don’t like the kind of “big government” that pays for health care for poor people.

            They do like the kind of big government that does mean things to poor people.

            I know that sounds like hyperbole but that’s pretty much it.

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              Yes, but they only think that way because that’s what they’ve been told to think by “their team”. They’re not Republicans because they are against free healthcare, they’re against free healthcare because they’re Republicans.

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                Nah, my dad will jump at any opportunity to talk about how bad and corrupt the Republican party is, but still votes for them every election because he agrees with pretty much everything they’ve ever advocated for except maybe Iraq. He’s a Republican because he hates poor people and minorities and “communism”, but not out of any sort of team loyalty.

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        People are brainwashed to defend the government and their agents no matter what. This happens regardless of who is the president.

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    Thank you for posting this. This is the clearest version I have seen and really lets you see how truly fucked up this is. Anyone still defending ICE/CBP cannot be taken seriously.

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    I had been struggling to see who exactly fired the first shot; but here it appears to be the brown shirt in a black toque and mask that’s center screen for most of this video.

    He watched the grey coat remove Alexs firearm, which means he knew he was shooting at an unarmed target.

    The rest reacted to shots fired, unsure of where they came from; but still went WAY over board, shooting and continuing to shoot an unmoving target that posed no threat.

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      My theory is that he knew a hand just reached for and removed the gun from the victim’s waist. He somehow thought that was the victim drawing his own firearm. It looks like he had seen the gun and was staring at it, but the moment the gun was touched by some hand, that seemed to the moment that drove his panic.

      They are a bunch of idiots with no training or experience. The leadership is knowingly putting crappy people in the field, both malicious and incompetent.

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        Your theory was wrong in the thread above and it’s still wrong here.

        He knowingly murdered an unarmed man.

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    Fuck. This is so disgusting, it is so infuriating. Straight up murder of a US citizen, a good man, a better man than any of these fucking cockroaches.

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      Bro was literally face down in the floor being held down by 5 people. I’d say this is a Mexican execution, but pretty sure narcos in the jungle are more organized and disciplined than this.

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    I had to keep jumping back to the start after the shots were fired because I couldn’t tell which one was firing. I saw the one guy remove the gun from his belt, but I didn’t actually see anyone pointing a gun at him when the shots went off. Silly me… I had been assuming it was one of any of the 5 guys actively struggling with him. I didn’t realize it was the guy standing next to them trying to find a way to pepper spray him in the face (again) before reacting to the sight of a gun on his person that was immediately removed by a colleague by grabbing his own gun and unloading a clip into the guy.

    Absolutely no justification for this, not even a long shot excuse about being in fear of his life. The gun wasn’t in his hand, it was removed from his person entirely, and 4 other guys were actively restraining him down in a crouching position. The shooter was in absolutely no danger.

    I don’t know if this was cowardice and odiocy that resulted in an unreasonable fear response because these guys are just basement dwelling bigots that were handed guns and badges without any real screening or training, or if the guy has just been itching to shoot someone and he saw the gun in his belt as his excuse/opportunity.

    Side note, even if I were an evil fascist racist small pricked ICE agent that fully supported killing this innocent bystander… I’d still be pretty fucking pissed that the dude fired on a guy that me and my 4 friends were actively dog piling on.

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      As I reach for what the hell specifically drove that guy to clearly panic and draw his firearm and shoot, my best guess is he saw the gun and then saw a hand pull it. His two brain cells failed to understand it was one of his own pulling out the gun and opened fire thinking the guy just pulled his gun.