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[–] Klox@lemmy.world 145 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's even worse than the picture implies. Alex walked away from that confrontation, and then later ICE assaulted a woman in front of Alex. Alex was helping her while she was falling over. ICE didnt like him helping her so he decided to pepper spray both of them. ICE thugs jumped Alex during this and then executed him. There was zero confrontation, just murder.

I think of the quote by Mr. Rogers during moments of tragedy: find the helpers. ICE executed the helper. There is zero ambiguity what happened here.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Now imagine if someone had sniped the ICE agent. Every force department would be searching for this highly dangerous criminal.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are correct. However if a sniper was able to take out a gravy seal in such an environment, I would suspect that the sniper had a means to disappear.

The noise that observers create would make it REALLY hard to identify the location, unless someone saw the flash.

Sadly, while the sniper is gone, we get a Luigi situation. They will waste a ton of resources finding someone to blame, and that person is now guilty in the eyes of the regime.

Or, worse, they just start massacring the crowd. This one is much more likely in my opinion.

[–] JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Or, worse, they just start massacring the crowd.

They would absolutely open fire in a blind panic, spraying every civilian on the block with bullets.

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Wish I could stop imagining.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Notice how he didn't say "with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun drawn". The guy was legally carrying and not threatening anyone with a weapon.

At this rate, I'm surprised they didn't accuse Renee Nicole Good of driving a vehicle loaded with explosive material (gasoline).

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's the exact trick they're doing over and over again.

They take two facts.

  • Alex, at some point caused the distance between him and ICE agent to shrink (if anything, when he drove to the area)
  • Alex had a legally licensed firearm.

And then they combine them into a sentence that is factually correct but misleading in the context that it is being used.

'He approached the ICE agents with a firearm'

The fact that the agents didn't know about the firearm until after they decided they wanted to beat up a protestor isn't mentioned at all.

It's lying by telling the truth, a flavor of misinformation and one of the core elements of these fascist's rise to power. Their target demographic has always been the ignorant and uneducated who are unable to understand the tricks being deployed against them.

[–] kshade@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And then they combine them into a sentence that is factually correct but misleading in the context that it is being used.

Like "Trump approached the minors with his penis". Oh, wait, bad example.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think that Trump is too mush brained to be able to do things like this. It appears, to me, like he's being handled by 'his' staff so that they can control all of the big domestic issues.

You can see when he speaks on the topics he doesn't appear to actually be informed in a way that you would expect the President to be if he were central to decision making. It's like they've left him a few toys to play with, like foreign policy (which, as white nationalists, they do not care about ruining) and soliciting bribes for pardons/federal contracts while they try to implement white supremacist utopia.

The lead on this is Stephen Miller (the egg headed white supremacist official hiding in a military base). AG Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Christie Noem (and their underlings, like Bovino) are the ones pushing his policy through the bureaucracy and running the operations.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah the president is gone, the leave him alone with his enemy, like mamdami, or Petro of Colombia, guys the party has him publicly wanting to take down, and he's best pals with them after 20 minutes. It is kind of funny really.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

Half of their target demographic is people that pretend to believe their bullshit and go along because they think they will benefit.

[–] kablez@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To fascists there's no weapon more frightening than the truth itself.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Idk. I did see all of them immediately panic from their own gunfire. Seems like more of that would be pretty effective.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If anything, that is a semi-automatic camera.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nah, looks more like a full-automatic camera, after all what is a video camera but a full auto camera?

[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've heard that they generally shoot 30-60 frames per second 🤯

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Which is up to 3,600 PPM! (Pics Per Minute) 🤯

[–] JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I hope Bovino dies of a rare disease that rots him inside out, dick first.

(Fournier's gangrene, if anyone wants to join the fantasies with me)

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When is Bovino gonna realize how stupid that fuckin boot-ass high&tight looks?

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

When he is hung for crimes against humanity

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Everyone should just start spamming "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" on mainstream social media (lol what ever happened to that sentinment?)

I bet now mentioning "2ND AMENDMENT" is gonna get you on a watchlist

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

So? I thought that this was America. Land of open and concealed carry.