Shooting at fleeing suspects is absolutely not legal without actual articulable facts that they pose a threat to the public. This isn't even a legal defense.
Arguably, this is a murder confession.
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"An officer discharged his weapon"..."The driver of the vehicle was struck"
Quite intentionally using passive voice in that second statement as if the officer didn't intend to shoot the victim. This is murder.
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Using the word "anymore" implies there was a time we could trust them. I feel this creates a false narrative.
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It began operations on March 1, 2003, after being formed as a result of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, enacted in response to the September 11 attacks.
It's wild how long ago it seems, but there has been extreme distrust in the DHS since the beginning, when it was clear that 9/11 was used to expand surveillance capabilities of the state.
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Remember kids! The only purpose of police throughout history is to protect the property and wealth of the owning class. This is one way they achieve that goal.
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Not even putting in the effort to lie convincingly. The final insult.
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How people haven't started shooting back i don't understand.
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From another article...
A witness told the Portland Press Herald that he heard gunshots, then saw an SUV attempting to “ram a small white car in the intersection” before agents in vests stopped the white car and pulled the man from the vehicle. Before he died, the victim was “bleeding profusely from the head,” that witness said. “He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop.’”
Another witness told the Press Herald that the victim’s family was apparently at the scene of the shooting. As the man lay on the street, an “older woman” was present “with a distressed family,” including a toddler—a little girl in Bluey pajamas. “You took her dad, you took her dad!” the woman yelled.
There's basically no reality in which I ever have a fragment of faith in this country again if ICE traitors aren't held accountable for their crimes the next time we have adults in charge.
So I'm gearing up to hate this shithole for the rest of my life, cuz I seriously doubt that's going to happen.
Perhaps, people who are in "fear" of everything, even as someone flees, should not have access to any kind of weapon, or sharp or long objects, for that matter. They should wear mittens.
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🌎🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
lies have been SOP for the trump machine since day one. to expect otherwise is nice but ultimately fruitless
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They weren't happy about it either but when they spun their "excuse wheel", that's what came up.
celibacy, lack of accountability, racism and machismo are a helluva drug. And the media helping out by using the passive voice for the officers murder of that man is disgusting. What happened to journalism in the US.
snowballs chance they will investigate this either, same as with Renee Good and the other 6 or so people.
This is what happens when you have a man in charge with a double first name and a prior boss who had a cuckold bed on her private government funded jet. Trump is a genital wart on the American people.
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