I've been wrong about something and I'd like to show you what I've been wrong about. If you do not wish to see violence don't click the link I'll be posting below.
Due to recent discussions about ICE agents in Minneapolis (wearing masks, because that's somehow the worst part of the events... 🙄), I've been poking about the most infamous incident lately: the shooting of the woman driving the Honda pilot.
I broadly believed reports that the woman had hit the agent with her vehicle. If that was the case, it's clear cut self-defense.
However, on further review, this does not seem to be the case. As such, I have changed my opinion based on more facts and deem the actions of the agent to be outside the bounds of self defense and would label this as murder.
The video floating around, and that I've posted here on nostr showing a clear hit has been fairly certainly found to be a fabrication.
Below, you'll find a link to reddit. I know, I know... but it contains a video that is compiled and synced from videos that do seem to be legitimate, and they clearly show malice of forethought by the agent in question as he drew his weapon before the woman had turned her wheels to move her vehicle.
https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1q71k0w/all_angles_of_minneapolis_ice_shooting_synched/
As such, the agent broke with all known SOPs regarding firing at a "fleeing vehicle" thus, IMO, is guilty of murder, at least until I am presented evidence otherwise.
That being said, it doesn't change my opinion on:
-Agents wearing face coverings
-ICE is doing a job that is necessary as long as there are national borders and unwelcome, criminal miscreants
-Ending the welfare state will solve nearly all of these issues without the descent into martial law
-Agents of the government operating with carte blanche immunity will only be emboldened to do more of this
So, I was wrong, evidently, about this particular shooting which I will call a murder now. That's fine. (Me being wrong, not the murder.) I'm still open to discussing it and being presented with other evidence on either side. I'd even appreciate it.
"Leftism is the pretense of empathy, devoid of its reality. Anybody with empathy would understand that the agent is not looking at the tires and calculating where scientifically one should expect the car to go. He's looking at the driver and observing the current direction of the car: headed towards him."
- Nick Szabo
At :44 you see the officer being rammed *hard* by lesbian rambo:
Nitter Mirror link(s)
🔗 XCancel:
https://xcancel.com/i/status/2009679932289626385
🔗 Poast:
https://nitter.poast.org/i/status/2009679932289626385
🔗 Nitter:
You do not see a hit. That is not a fair description of that video at all. IMO.
It may indicate a hit, but it is not conclusive. Saying it is in disingenuous.
Until I see something else that is better evidence, if I was sitting in a jury and presented what I wrote and this video you linked to, I would conclude the same thing.
I really don't think this was a "good shoot."
You honestly watch that and conclude there was no hit?
I conclude that it isn't conclusive. It is suggestive. That's not a high enough standard to say beyond a shadow of a doubt. I've got no dog in this fight. I'm just looking things tubs seem legit and pertinent. This particular video is important and seems legit, but it isn't comprehensive and definitive. I wish it was. Truly.
