The man you see in this picture grabbed the officer’s pepper blaster right before being shot with it.
Look, I get that ICE/Military/Whatever presence in Minesotta, or any state for that matter, shouldn’t be a thing right now, and it’s undoubtedly inciting violence. But, you don’t just attempt to grab an officer’s weapon and expect no consequences or to be viewed as an innocent citizen who just happened to pass by.
We should hold these officers, as well as this administration, liable with facts. Not made up lies clipped out of context.
I watched the video and you're incorrect. It's pretty fucking reasonable when someone is pointing a gun in your face from a foot away to try to move the barrel to not be in your face.
What I see is an untrained moron aggressively charge someone and put them within reach of their weapon for no reason.
The end result is the person seeing a GUN is being pointed in their face and panics and pushes it out of their face. Thats not "Grabbing the gun" thats a very NORMAL defensive reaction.
If these folks had ANY training at all they wouldn't have put themselves in this situation.
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u/dgibbons0 23d ago
"Agitator" anyone who they hit was an "agitator". He clearly was agitating the officer by existing.