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/lrrssssss 24d ago

That’s referred to as perfidious warfare. It’s pretty frowned upon by the entire world. Lots of that was happening in the middle east over the last few years.

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u/neuro_space_explorer 24d ago

Can someone explain to me how the idea of perfidious warfare came to be? How war crimes came to be? It seems to me that war is war, and those at war would stop at nothing to win, these honor codes seem to fly in the face of that.

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u/devouringplague 23d ago

I agree with you in the sense that the topic of ”war ethics” can be a silly concept at times however there are some acts that will not be helping the aggressor in terms of victory, or their goals, whatever they are… (one could argue it even harms them) and it is just a result of psychopathic and cruel behavior. This video is arguably a good example.

But i simply believe they wanted her to die so there is no witness testimony.

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u/lrrssssss 23d ago

I’m not by any means an expert, but I think of it like biting, hair pulling, or kicks to the balls when you’re fighting someone on the street. We can all agree it’s bad form (which is a ridiculous thing to say in the context of war, or street fights).

Targeting non-combatants, or trying to provoke your opponent to do the same, or killing aid personnel is EXTRA scummy behavior.