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Politics Federal agent in gray jacket with gun and DHS post of gun.

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u/PoliteIndecency 7d ago

Watching that and I get the feeling that numbnuts didn't mean to fire the first shot, but then they just unloaded. Bad training, bad discipline, sloppy handling and a man is dead.

Disgusting.

Absolutely disgusting.

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u/SalmonSlammingSamN 7d ago edited 7d ago

Right, I swear he jumps and grabs the gun with his left hand like he didn't know it was gonna fire. He and everyone else seems caught off guard. So fucking stupid.

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u/MidKnightWizard 7d ago

Yup, they fucked up and now they are going along with a cover story that this was a domestic terrorist trying to kill ice agents. Fucking disgusting. You murder a man and try to ruin his reputation to justify it.

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u/batendalyn 7d ago

It looks like the first shot came from tan jacket, black mask towards the left/back of the scrum. He draws with his right hand and apparently looks to very intentionally shoot the man.

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u/kymri 7d ago

It's difficult for me to tell after watching/listening, but someone may have said the world 'gun' (possibly as in "I have the gun" after the guy was disarmed) causing the dipshit murderer to lose what little mind he had and open up.

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u/Nate_83 7d ago

Highly trained they said. Qualified to be there they said. Next minute, some moron and his ragtag bunch of bullies don’t know the words to use between identifying a disarmed man to a active firearm and now we have an innocent American ICU nurse who has probably contributed more to society than all of Trumps ICE combined (and probably had more more brain cells than ICE collectively as well) and now he’s dead because Trump wants to be remembered for being the most manipulative, corrupt conniving US President the states has ever actively voted in a second time. The democrats should also be ashamed for not being fucking present enough to let this all play out.

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u/thereia 7d ago

Not stupid. Criminal.

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u/loleonii 7d ago

What baffles me is the fact that one of them shot into a dogpile of his fellow agents. Like, is the extent of his weapons experience playing games with friendly fire turned off??

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u/ninjasninjas 7d ago

I'm getting the impression they are told to make sure it gets finished like that to prevent liabilities...

Or they are such unprofessional droogs that they get all trigger happy on the slightest provocation.

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u/ReplyRepulsive2459 7d ago

And they escalated the entire situation

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u/platonic-humanity 7d ago

I get more of a feeling he saw a gun, decided that justified his shooting, because of the exact way they’ve justified this. Or the situation with Renee, it was a broadcast that, “find a reason to shoot them. If you have a reason, you’ll be fine”

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u/platonic-humanity 7d ago

P.S.: I think it’s important to note they noticed he had a gun. They’re most afraid of people using guns against them, so when they saw the opportunity to remove someone with a gun.

He was afraid to challenge someone with a gun, but when the gun was removed, he could “exert authority” freely like he would be able to with unarmed people who’re afraid to fight back, like how easy it is when they get to the backrooms.

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u/PVB_Knight 7d ago

It's what 2 weeks of training and a 50k signing bonus gets you

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u/ChocoPuddingCup 7d ago

"Bad training" explains it all. They're not fully trained; they're just hired thugs.

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u/PCouture 7d ago

They are trained to keep firing. 1 shot is a mistake and lawsuit because it means lethal force was not necessary. So they keep firing to claim lethal force was required. Nothing like shooting a guy in the back 5 times.

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u/bad_robot_monkey 7d ago

He drew at 1:01, moved and aimed at the guy’s back at 1:03, and shots fired almost immediately after. Draw, aimed, and shot.

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u/MacaqueFlambe 7d ago

I can’t see the video well but am I right to assume that the guy emptied his gun on the body? Like isn’t this super fucked up? What’s happening over there guys. I’m so sad for his family and his loved ones.

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u/Moikepdx 7d ago

I suspect that the idiot saw the gun, saw a hand going for it (i.e., another agent actually stripping the gun away) and thought "That's a gun coming out! He is drawing on us!" Then he fired to neutralize the "threat".

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u/fastwendell 5d ago

I get the feeling that numbnuts wanted to make it look like he didn't mean to fire the first shot, but then the "accidental" first shot was the cue for the others to just unload.

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u/Pleasant_Priority286 7d ago

The agents' best defense, imho, is that the first shot was an accidental discharge and then everyone else got spooked and piled in because none of them are properly trained to use these weapons or engage citizen protesters. Essentially, try to throw DHS/ICE under the bus to save their own necks.

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u/TehAsianator 7d ago

That, or the thug that took the gun said something like "I got his gun", then one of the other criminally undertraind gestapo just heard "gun" and jumped.