CanofWorms
3mo ago
Comparisons are rightly being drawn to the killing of George Floyd
I don't think we can say these comparisons are right. In the George Floyd killing, it was the police who were responsible. In this killing, it was a civilian. Now did the police get the situation utterly wrong? Absolutely. But this is quite different from the police actually killing Nowak.
CanofWorms
7mo ago
Damn. Well there you go.
CanofWorms
7mo ago
Do you understand how cause and effect works?
ICE agents swarm American cities. --> American citizens begin peaceful protesting. --> ICE agents shoot and kill American citizens.
I recommend leaving your news bubble and not taking the most egregious social media videos of protests as representative of the millions of people in the streets.
CanofWorms
7mo ago
Fine, even if you wanted to consider these numbers "tricks" (which I do not concede), use George W Bush as an example. Was ICE killing American citizens during his years? How people can justify this sort of violence for immigration enforcement is imbecilic.
CanofWorms
7mo ago
Fine, even if you wanted to consider these numbers "tricks" (which I do not concede), use George W Bush as an example. Was ICE killing American citizens during his years? How people can justify this sort of violence for immigration enforcement is imbecilic.
CanofWorms
7mo ago
The left won't cooperate with the right? They passed an immigration reform act the summer before the 2024 election and Donald Trump torpedoed it. This was a commonsense reform that Trump knew would harm him politically, so he cynically (politically effectively) killed the bill. The right would rather use immigration as their bogeyman than do anything real to prevent it.
CanofWorms
7mo ago
The argument against it is pretty easy and clear. You can remove thousands of illegal immigrants without this chaotic clusterfuck the Trump admin has unleashed on Minneapolis. It's a cliche at this point, but Obama deported illegal immigrants at twice the pace of Donald Trump. And he did so while managing not to kill any American citizens.
It is not in contention. Multiple autopsies confirmed George Floyd's death was caused by homicide. A court found the police officer who sat on his neck guilty of second degree murder. You clearly do not like the man, but that doesn't change the facts.
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