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Man who threatened Biden shot dead in FBI raid in Utah (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1255681

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, yes… but what does that have to do with any of this? Is that actually how you would characterize what happened to this guy? Or that the people laughing at the irony of his demise are “liberals cheering on door to door death squads?” That just seems like a deliberate misreading of both the events and the reaction to them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Look at the comments in this thread. People think that what happened to him is justified, correct, and expected.

Top voted comment is police apologia and giving them the benefit of the doubt, which if you've paid attention, should never be granted to the police.

Second comment is "what did he think would happen for threatening the life of a sitting president." As if posting on facebook should obviously result in the FBI coming to kill you in a predawn no-knock raid.

Tons more with similar sentiment that obviously the police are the good guys here and it was correct that this guy should have been killed by him.