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Comment · 14 days ago
Read. The incident described had no one assaulting law enforcement.
Comment · 21 days ago
> It is tiring to hear law enforcement be described as a weapon. Law enforcement keeps society functioning. Journalists and public figures who rule up people to be against the law are the real bad actors here trying to subvert American society.

ICE is against the law. Here's some videos of them doing illegal things.

https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigratio...

> after more than an hour, agents held down Zapata Rivera’s arms. One, who Zapata Rivera’s lawyer says wore a baseball cap reading “Ne Quis Effugiat” — Latin for “So That None Will Escape” — pressed his thumbs into the arteries on Zapata Rivera’s neck. The young man then appeared to pass out as bystanders screamed.

> The technique is known as a carotid restraint. The two carotid arteries carry 70% of the brain’s blood flow; block them, and a person can quickly lose consciousness. The tactic can cause strokes, seizures, brain damage — and death.

> In a bystander video of Zapata Rivera’s arrest, his eyes roll back in his head and he suffers an apparent seizure, convulsing so violently that his daughter, seated in his lap, shakes with him.

> In a social media post after the incident and in its statement to ProPublica, DHS did not cite a deadly threat. Instead, it referenced the charges against Zapata Rivera’s wife and suggested he had only pretended to have a medical crisis while refusing help from paramedics. “Imagine FAKING a seizure to help a criminal escape justice,” the post said.

Comment · 4 months ago
He was helping up a woman that was on the ground. LEO needlessly got involved and started and escalated the "shoving match."

Dude. LEO shot him on purpose. You use the passive voice like it was a natural disaster or accident. He had no fire arm on him at the time of the shooting. Why are you so insistent on spinning things this way?

Comment · 4 months ago
Was that the day he died? Or earlier?
Comment · 4 months ago
you claim Pretti interfered with LE from performing their duties.

What causes you to believe that?

Comment · 7 months ago
Do you think surrendering combatants should be killed?
Comment · 9 months ago
He doesn't even have to lie about what he meant. Trump-whisperers like 0xy do it for free.
Comment · 9 months ago
Allll of your comments have been disparaging Pretti, and his attitude, his intentions, and so on. It is obvious.

Only when you're called out, do you mention self defense. Glad to see you have shame. Bye.

Comment · 9 months ago
You keep implying it without explicitly saying it:

You, ljsprague, believe Alex Pretti was executed for committing an offense.

Do you dispute this?

Comment · 9 months ago
Was he executed for committing an offense(which is what you seem to be getting at, by making assumptions about Pretti, instead of focusing on self-defense)?

I hope you don't think that, that would be honestly disgusting. I'd strongly disagree with your stance for vigilantism and against law-and-order.

Or was he killed in self defense? And if so, why would the ICE agents be in fear for their life? I didn't see a reason myself but I want to know your perspective. Was there something in the video?

Comment · 9 months ago
having a gun = intent to interfere?

Interesting. Does having intent to interfere deserve execution?

Oh edit to add: did he interfere? And if so how?

Comment · 9 months ago
Unclear to me if he was a protestor, he seemed to just be a guy with a camera phone and tried to help a woman stand up.

What are you implying, ljsprague?

Comment · 9 months ago
I'm taking a charitable interpretation of your take for sure. I do see the value of additional levers, but I don't think realistically it would be feasible to make such a court.

Counter-point: I don't think Chauvin would've been brought to justice if he were tried in some kind of cop-court.

I'm open minded though, I appreciate your perspective, gave me food for thought.

Comment · 9 months ago
Welcome to the free marketplace of ideas, dude. Talk about the issue I'm talking about instead of ranting on some vague generalization about how "believing your own eyes" is bad sometimes, thus is always bad???

If someone were talking disprovable nonsense about fairies, it would be totally fair to bring up counter-evidence. This comment of yours is substanceless.

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