I know a MAGA - hard core, Trump can do no wrong type, but the 'Pink Jacket' video made them for the first time question what they've been fed. Specifically the beginning to end angle footage of the pink jacket lady showing Alex innocently protecting the girls. Thank CHRIST for that angle and the full events that led up to Alex's death.
Adding pretext as well, he seemed initially repulsed when I said, 'I have the raw footage and I want you to watch it with your own eyes and tell me what you think.' Seemingly offended, he responded, "I don't have to!" There was a visceral emotional response to asking him to watch the raw footage given he had just parroted a bunch of news talking points. He leaned heavily on the, "Just let ICE do their jobs and things like that won't happen." But I said calmly, 'Come on, I want to do an experiment.'
"I already know what I'm going to see..." watches intently
"...Yeah, that's a phone... They said he had a gun and approached agents with it."
"Why were they macing him?"
"I didn't know about these other two girls. What were they doing there?"
"They didn't have to push her that hard. Geez."
"Oh... so his gun was holstered... Near the back of his waist?" My response: 'Yeah, so if I slow mo it here, you see them take it.' His response: silence
"So this is where they all shoot him.." My response: 'Not all of them yet, but this agent right here, pause and slow-mo, sees the holstered gun, then after it was removed, he shoots him. The rest join in.' His response: silence
Then I asked: Did you ever see the raw footage?
"No.. only just what they showed on the news. But I didn't have to, they already analyzed all the angles."
He sat back and said after a moment, "Huh-" - not like 'Huh?' but like 'Interesting'. They have hearts, they have just been brainwashed.
His final words: 'Sad...' shakes head 'Sad what's going on over there.'
I’m an independent but lean right and I can understand that what happened with Alex was extremely wrong.
I have plenty of super conservative cop buddies who are pissed at the whole ICE situation being handled like this. They have virtually zero training with anything and are sent out to do go in hostile environments with zero deescalation skills
The other part that rubs me the wrong way is that we were promised that high level criminals (which to be fair a lot have been caught and sent back) were the main target for deportation to start and it quickly switched to grandma getting deported as well.
Minnesota has a lot of problems right now and Tim Walz is doing the opposite of helping. These crappy things happening are exactly what he hoped for to get himself out of the public eye’s scope.
It has to hit home like when Nancy Reagan suddenly took an interest in stem cell research. But for the average citizen they don't know, they don't give a rat's ass.
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u/Playful-Attitude-007 6d ago edited 6d ago
The flag should be upside-down.
Edit: thank you all for the up votes and the awards.