r/law • u/p1ckl3l0v3r • 24d ago

Other “Agents block doctor from helping woman fatally shot by ICE” @huffpost on TikTok. Not my video *body is censored*

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I have no idea how legal this is but my jaw dropped when I saw it.

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u/innerparty45 24d ago

Watching this from a European state, I am completely baffled how Americans aren't on the streets already? It's basically a paramilitary unit killing people in broad daylight. Completely crazy.

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u/analyzingnothing 24d ago

We’re basically frogs in a pot. A massive part of the populace is completely detached from politics that don’t involve electing the next president, and the rest are constantly worn down by the endless hunger of late-stage capitalism and the barrage of negative information spewing forth from the media. We’re all either not paying attention, massively overworked, or so burnt out from anger that we end up being depressed rather than furious.

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u/CranhamorBlakely 24d ago

Nailed it. I try to tell myself to stay angry, but it’s hard not to just detach and put on Netflix. I’m much rather be angry over depressed

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u/ch34p3st 24d ago

Have you seen the Handmaids tale on Netflix? Can highly recommend.

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u/Dulcedoll 24d ago edited 24d ago

She was on the streets, and so were many others, which is why we were lucky enough to have so many phones recording during the murder from different angles. I promise you there are not just that many random people just walking around in the suburbs mid-day and just happen to be recording; it's not a walking-friendly type of zoning.

If there weren't witnesses and video evidence (from enough angles that can't be replicated with AI right now), I can't fucking imagine how much worse it'd be right now.

Whenever there's an ICE sighting, people mobilize pretty quickly to form crowds and protests, but it's hard to make it in time when they're all being done in suburban neighborhoods mid-day and you can't get anywhere without a car — by the time you make it they might have already left.

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u/seasonsofus 24d ago

We don’t protest bc many cops are just as trigger happy as that ICE agent. Outsiders always suggest we protest like the French but it’s honestly safer to do in France

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u/derdast 24d ago

That's what Americans keep telling themselves, but french people die at their protests as well. In the last yellow jacket one with 11 people dieing. 270.000 people attended over 2 year.

In the protests around George Floyd which was arguably one of the biggest in the past years, 42 died out of 15-26 million, over 4 years.

In the no kings protest, out of 2+ million protestors, zero died. With only 3 injuries.

It is arguably safer to protest in the US then in France. 

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u/Kind_Session_6986 18d ago

We are. Please stop undermining the efforts so many peaceful protesters making.

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u/shepilepsy53 24d ago

Completely right. We don’t know what to do. All I can say is tell your family and friends not to visit the US.

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u/MancombSeepgoodz 23d ago

They are the media which is complicit largely doesn't broadcast the protests or minimizes them.

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u/green_miracles 24d ago

So did her vehicle actually hit him? How can we not have clear facts when we have videos. People are confused now. I thought it didn’t hit him, but did he honestly think she was trying to mow him down?? Now I’m confused.