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100%. Same for Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Chicago. The guy tried driving away from an illegal stop and they executed him.

People are suddenly acting like the old videos don't even exist. I had to watch them because people refuse to be honest and you have to see shit for yourself.

I'm now pissed that I was made to watch those videos and pissed that they're gaslighting that they suddenly don't exist and/or matter.

From what little I have seen, right wing outlets were interpreting the video as proof the officer was hit by the car because of the way the phone gets jostled at the end. You also can't see in this video exactly when he draws his gun, or how the shooter is positioned. It's damning when combined with the other videos, but on its own it's a lot less clear.

And they also see it as proof that these were "agitators" obstructing "law enforcement" based on the confrontational tone with the woman outside the vehicle. They want to frame the issue as law enforcement vs criminals, rioters and radical domestic terrorists. They want to blame the victim and undercut the narrative that this was an innocent bystander.

Obviously a sane person would recognize that it doesn't matter if the victim was politically active or even obstructing police, it's still murder. But these aren't moral, rational people and they aren't trying to persuade an audience with legal arguments, just feeding the US vs them mentality.

Maybe they are just really arrogant and want to see how far they can go? They can literally say anything, despite what video evidence shows and people are still believing them.

So one thing that I learned from Timothy Snyder is that one of the critical things that leads to political violence is humiliation. This is something that the trump regime is really doubling down on, especially lately, through multiple different channels. They've already made clear, explicitly, that they want to cancel the midterm elections. Inciting violence is the means to that end. They're celebrating her death and flaunting power, ratcheting up violence and amplifying instances of violent outcomes in media. They've even fixed their own agent in hopes that someone will try something stupid.

In this sense, Good's shooting or something like that was inevitable, they're seizing this opportunity for all it's worth. They were expecting this and were ready to act. They engineered the situation.

Agreed 100%, same with the invasion of Venezuela, releasing ~1% of the Epstein files, and beefing up threats to invade Greenland amongst myriad known and unknown horrors and violations.

They want us mad enough to give them reason to cancel the midterms via a declaration of martial law that will last until those of us that oppose them either step in line or die by their hands. Obviously this will run far past when those of us left standing recall, ‘Today would have been Election Day.’ … ‘Wasn’t he only supposed to be president for four years?’ And that’s to assume we have the luxury to track what day and year it is since we’ll be too busy fighting and dying for it to matter much.

I would really like to believe that I’m going overboard in my conceptualization of our future, but I can’t afford to anymore.

Or they are still testing how far they can lie with actual video evidence that says otherwise. You know Ministry of Truth style.

This is how they treat white US citizens when they know they're being filmed. Imagine how they treat immigrants and people of color in their terror camps.

And was videoing with his phone on his other hand.

Not only that but there are training documents from 04-07 proving that officers were using standing in front of a moving vehicle as an escalation tactic and they have been deliberately training law enforcement officers to stand clear of vehicles. Well guess whose career stretches back to when that was a common escalation tactic?

Of course not. They drive around in unmarked vans and refuse to show ID, why would they wear body cams?

It looks like half the officers have bought their equipment from etsy. They aren't exactly prone to want to wear cameras showing off their thuggery.