Mothra said:
Porteroso said:
Mothra said:
Sam Lowry said:
Realitybites said:
ATL Bear said:
Deescalate in Minneapolis and reassess tactics. Whatever spin you want to apply doesn't matter. Both citizens and law enforcement agents are in danger. There are plenty of other places to target in the U.S., and many other approaches than doing show of force tactics. If you don't, it is a virtual guarantee that more of both (citizens and LE) will be harmed. Sometimes the bigger picture has to be assessed.
What you are recommending is standing down in the face of a communist insurrection in blue state Minnesota.
Nah. It's just plain old American protest.
Blocking streets, hitting ICE agents with cars, throwing objects at them and assaulting them is just plain old American protest? lol.
I guess after BLM, people's acceptance of violent protests are now the norm.
Very few of the tens of thousands of protesters are attacking anyone. It's the same story as always.
The majority get blamed for the actions of the ew crazies amongst them.
I remember the media trying to convince us that the BLM protests were mostly peaceful.
Might be but it also resulted in thousands of injuries and the destruction of millions of dollars of property.
This isn't close to that. But it's heading that way. What serves the population best? Taking a step back, or full steam ahead?
This guy did not deserve to die. The majority of America will reach that conclusion if they watch the video.
The only justification would be if the officer that kills him, heard that he was armed, but did not see him being disarmed, and thought he was reaching for a gun. In which case you would think it needs to be standard training to communicate that the gun is secured, like it is for most law enforcement. Now we get into the 37 days thing. The low number of days and apparently, quality of training.
Ultimately where im going, is all of this can be erased by voters. Voters can vote to reopen the border and encourage illegal immigration and disband ICE. At all times the federal government needs to be a little fearful of the populace, and ensure it is really truly serving it.
I do think this shooting was an error, and yet I am not very upset. It was an error more or less forced by the protesters in general, and by this guy in particular, who thought that confronting law enforcement with a gun, and playing hero, was his role for that day. I bet there is some level of mental illness going on.
But regardless, the government does need to reassess. Perception does matter. If tomorrow ICE ramps up even more, and there are 10 "heros" like this guy, armed, trying to protect citizens, how many more errors will there be?
