So....this has been a hell of a week, hasn't it? Last year we were ringing in the new year, and it feels like we've experienced a whole year, or at least 1-2 months of collective trauma already. We've invaded a foreign country and stole their oil, and now ICE shot that lady in Minneapolis for no reason, and now two more in portland. And the most baffling part about the latter is the Trump administration's lies. Here's the video, warning, it's kind of graphic, but you dont see blood or anything. Anyway the trump administration is trying to frame this like the woman was some radical leftist trying to run over ICE officers with her car. And it's like...WTF. No. That isn't what we just saw.
Like, if I were to be as objective and fair to ICE personnel as possible, I can KINDA see an argument for why pulling away from cops can be seen as dangerous, but the only danger the ICE officers were in was the danger they put themselves in by being that close to the car. The woman was clearly trying to swerve to avoid hitting anyone, just trying to flee. And while some of more authoritarian persuasions would argue she should have complied, well, yeah. Either way, this wasn't a justified use of force. This is what happens when you give untrained morons guns. Because let's face it, ICE people arent well trained. They accept literally almost anyone and are just giving these guys weapons.
And honestly, let's not miss the big point, THIS SHOULDN'T HAVE EVEN HAPPENED. Like, okay, even if we grant the ICE officers every possible excuse under the sun. Okay. Well, why are they being deployed to Minnesota? They afraid Canadians are gonna come over the border? Why would they wanna come here? And no, that's not the real reason. They're there because 1) they're just deploying people to blue cities/states to make the citizens there miserable for daring to vote against the orange one, and 2) there's a community of Somali Americans that MAGA is making a big deal about and acting like they're turning the place into Mogadishu by virtue of being uncivilized or something. Ya know, more of that "they're eating the cats and dogs" crap except more like "this is literally black hawk down." So...hassling somali immigrants by virtue of being somali immigrants because MAGA are a bunch of racist, white nationalist, pieces of crap.
And that's the big thing. Trump/Noem just deployed these people to Minneapolis without the local government's consent (hell, the mayor of Minneapolis in response to the incident literally told them to "gtfo"), and this incident happened. And when called on it, well, suddenly the woman was a radical leftist who tried to run over ICE agents intentionally. No, no she wasn't. She was some single mom who dropped her kids off at school or something, got stuck at an ICE checkpoint, and when a masked agent pulled up to her window shoving a gun in her face and telling her to get out of the car she freaked and ran.
Again, this incident never should've happened. because ICE should've never been there. Sorry, not sorry. And that's the real moral of the story. THis is a policy failure, and this is directly on Trump and Noem's hands. Again, you can argue maybe she shouldn't have run as running from law enforcement is never a good idea, but still again, kinda ignoring the even bigger problem here that this deployment was technically illegal, it was unwanted, but hey, its okay for mr law and order over here to do whatever he wants because it doesnt account as illegal when he does it because he's trying to sieze control of the law enforcement apparatus.
Anyway, can we at least agree that he's lying when he calls her some radical leftist terrorist? I mean, wtf? This administration has no shame when it comes to lying. Just like they called Kilmar Abrego Garcia a gang member or drug trafficker or whatever BS narrative they made up about him. Disgusting.
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