• brian@lemmy.ca
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      I understand that people are being told different stories, the created issue is that those stories aren’t questioned with even the slightest scrutiny. for this situation, the only evidence that the officer was going to be hit by the vehicle is from a video that’s 500 feet away with 15 pixels for the car and officer.

      no one wants to find clarity if it already fits their narrative

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        There are two other videos, one fairly close and on the left side of the vehicle showing she tried to avoid hitting the officer while fleeing from masked gestapo wannabes threatening her life.

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        The video from like 10 feet away shows the “officer” isn’t even in front of the car 🤷

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          He is for the first shot, you just can’t see him because another terrorist is blocking him; you can see his legs between the legs of the other guy.

          But he intentionally positioned himself that way because he wanted an excuse to murder.

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            What Null said. https://files.xvertigox.com/vertigo-archival/video/minneapolis-ice-shooting-26-01-08.mp4

            Slowed down clip showing him very clearly leaning over the hood, just to the side of the car (he’s on a patch of ice and his weight leaning on the car causes him to slide), reaching over for the first shot directly through the front windshield, then being able to step back and firing directly into her open windows and eventually shooting into the car that’s already in front of him.

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            He may have been technically in front, but he wasn’t in the path of the vehicle or she would have flattened him when her head injury apparently caused her to floor it into the parked car and telephone pole down the street.

            Edited spelling.

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              Oh, I wasn’t saying that as a justification or anything. He was trying to set up a flimsy pretext to commit murder.

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              Precisely! One has to look also for the wheels. She was turning away off him. Also, if he really felt threatened he would have first move to the side, not concerning himself with shooting. Everyone knows a bullet won’t stop a car. And, secondly, to stop the car you would aim to the wheels probably but no officer did it… They were all concerned with terroricing the population and that’s the reason behind this MURDER. Fuck nazis and pedophiles’ apologists.

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        I think you hit on an important point. People, especially conservatives imo, are super willing to not question something if they want to believe it. The confirmation bias is so strong it trumps morality most of the time. I think confirmation bias has gotten worse specifically because of the Internet. Algorithms feeding you constant validation has led to self righteousness levels that are off the chart.

        Having said all this, I am baffled that anyone can see something like this and not even question it. I think it is remotely possible the cop feared he could be hit for a brief moment, but that doesn’t justify murdering a person obviously. I think he fired at least a couple seconds after that moment.

        But here we are. The Shitter thread I saw where the close-up video was posted was absolutely loaded with morons commenting with certainty that the murderer did the right thing. The absolute strongest position anyone should have in favor of the fascist should be “I think it was justified”. But no, they’re 100% certain after 5 seconds of viewing the post. Society is sick, and the disease is mostly conservative politics.

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          I agree with you mostly, but I think it’s closer that religion is the main underlying problem. Every single Republican and conservative Nazi out there will profess Jesus as their Lord and savior. Or some other bullshit prophet. They willfully lie to themselves. Whatever is broken inside of them, to believe with zero proof, have Faith, trust in magical sky daddy… Childish fantasies. This is what fractures societies everywhere. That and Capitalism of course.

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            I would agree, but I don’t see how Christianity itself is to blame exactly, since if they followed the teachings of Jesus in any way, they’d be overcome with empathy for a murder victim. Bastardized interpretations of religions are the excuse to be shitty, not the cause to be shitty, imo. When it is an excuse, you get to pick and choose which thing is supposedly a Christian value that excuses your behavior. In this case they’d have trouble even doing that though. It would have to be something like “well this woman is a part of the RADICAL left and all they want is for Christians and anything decent to be destroyed!”

            Notice how none of that remotely reflects anything Jesus said. If Jesus were alive today, they would 100% kill him for being a RADICAL leftist

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      she tried to run over the cop and/or thats what he thought when he fired, anyway

      Even if this was true, it’s honestly irrelevant. You’re not supposed to fire upon the driver of a running/moving vehicle period, lest the vehicle become an ‘unguided missile’ (via dead weight pressing on the accelerator) that can cause who knows how much more damage.

      ICE’s own rules explicitly prohibit it, I saw someone citing them earlier.