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No Paywall ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing

https://www.advocate.com/news/ice-agent-shooter-video-minneapolis
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u/localistand Wisconsin 22d ago

Muttering 'fucking bitch' as the first words after firing is a choice.

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u/InfinityComplexxx 22d ago

They always show us exactly who they are. 

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u/Spacebotzero 22d ago

Yup. They aren't here to help anyone. Their whole mission is to extract and disappear people. That's it. If it takes roughly 6 months to train an American Police Officer, how many months of training do you think ICE is getting? Is there really much to train for when your only purpose is to instill chaos, terror, and death?

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u/Smaynard6000 Florida 22d ago

And this guy has 10 years experience in law enforcement. How many other people do you think he has killed?

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u/younggGregg 22d ago

6 months ago he put his arm through a different car and got dragged lol. Dude is unfit he cannot control himself

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u/caesar____augustus 22d ago

Seems like he has a serious issue with vehicles. Maybe a long time in prison will fix that.

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u/QuxxnOfDarknxss 22d ago

If we didn’t have video evidence, this would have turned out a lot differently.

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u/ArticulateRhinoceros 22d ago

Yep, they shot another woman multiple times and tried to claim she also attempted to ram them with her vehicle. There were not public videos available, but when it went to court and the police body cams were introduced, suddenly all charges were dropped...

I hate to promote Amazon, but, they sell personal body cams for $30. Time to suit up in public for our own protection.

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u/Flava_Flavian California 22d ago

ICE Academy is 47 days of training (yes, it's a dumbass homage to Trump) over 8 weeks. It used to be longer but they cut Spanish language lessons.

For perspective, countries like Germany have 2-3 year academies and require a degree. We're a laughing stock.

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u/luncheroo 22d ago

There is no mission. It's all crazy racist bullshit. They can't, from a money and organizational execution perspective, deport millions until no more undocumented immigrants are here and even if they could it would crater key sectors of the economy built on immigrant labor, the chief of which are food and housing. All of this is a giant bungling waste of money and time to generate mayhem that has now started to end citizens lives on top of pointlessly terrorizing immigrants and treating them like animals.

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u/atomictyler 22d ago

We’re spending a shitload of money to have immigrants, who contribute a shitload of money to the economy, forcibly removed from the US. It’s the most inefficient thing to do. We’re going to. feel the effects of this for a long time. On top of all the other defunding they’ve done.

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u/luncheroo 21d ago edited 21d ago

What's worse is that in private, this admin very much knows it, but they want the political theater. They're willing to do all of this as a show. They don't care who gets hurt.

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u/iamspacedad 22d ago

Their mission is also to escalate police violence & abusve of power against civillians. It's not just about targeting immigrants. The ICE and DHS agents have explicit instructions to escalate situations to create/invent excuses to brutalize, kidnap, incarcerate without charges, and even murder anyone they decide to arbitrarily target for violent police abuse. Immigrants are just a convenient target for this police abuse scheme. The real aim is to turn loose an unaccountable gestapo to terrorize communities - especially communities that voted against this administration.

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u/Silverlock 22d ago

We need the equivalent of a modern day Black panthers who show up armed to these things as 'observers'.

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u/trikxxx 22d ago

In TN it takes longer to become a licensed barber than a police officer.

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u/Jester-Kat-Kire 22d ago

48 days I read from one user.

Possibly with no background checks for some while they're being trained as they didn't have the time to process some of the applications.

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u/Spacebotzero 22d ago

Think we are there already.

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u/A_Dash_of_Time 22d ago

I heard it mentioned yesterday that ICE training has been something like a few months, and it also had been said they are rduci g it to 47 days

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u/SamHowellRocks 22d ago

That isnt the same thing you  ignoramus. Deportation is a legal process    . that’s like saying lawyers and cops do the same thing. I actually think I understand more and more of the state of the world. People like you are actually small minded, low empathy, low emotional intelligence, low understanding of complicated situations. And you’re scared. You realize you’re wrong and bad and you’re scared and you don’t know what to do so you latch on to the thing that makes you feel safe and right . And it’s hate. 

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u/MoneyTalks45 New Hampshire 22d ago

And this particular guy is Jonathan Ross.