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New footage of ICE shooter
Forgive another high-level post but the body cam (or cell phone?) footage of the cop who shot has been released by AlphaNews and this may significantly change perceptions of what happened (to those willing to have perceptions changed):
https://x.com/alphanews/status/2009679932289626385?s=46
To my eyes it appears that:
The ICE agent is clearly hit by her car and goes down
The ICE agent was not standing in front of her car but walking from one side to another
The driver’s wife is not passively observing but actively shouting at the agents (this should undermine the idea that the driver and her wife were somehow neutral people accidentally caught up in everything)
Perhaps most importantly, but maybe most open to interpretation, it appears to me that the driver looks directly at the ICE agent before driving forward. From this bodycam angle, her face is clearly shown looking directly ahead where the officer is seconds before she moves her car forward.
I suppose a lot of new interpretations are possible, but to me this video footage clearly debunks several going interpretations I have seen proposed. At the very least, maybe reasonable people can agree that the cop did not shoot the driver in cold blood from the side window.
I would also not be surprised to see the idea spread that this new video is AI.
Edit: per corrections from others below, this is not bodycam but cell phone footage (my mistake as it’s clearly even labeled as such) and this explains why it tumbles at the end of the video. Thanks!
I think the chance that this changes anybody's perception is 0. Scrolling X I see equal right wing gloating over how right they (we) were and left wing gloating about how right they were. Both sides think this video confirms what they already thought.
Here's a bisky post demonstrating what I mean: https://bsky.app/profile/jsweetli.bsky.social/post/3mbz3zjxzpk2t
Here's another example from X: https://x.com/dpakman/status/2009704541793747294
David Pakman must know what he's doing here, right? He's not stupid. My theory of mind for these people is that they genuinely know they're being duplicitous, but they see that as a greater good.
Just a vibes comment: there is something very strange to me about her female partner. The aggression, telling her to "drive drive", the body language, etc....it just gets my hackles up a bit.
There isn't that much new information. We find out what the police officer saw the suspect doing, such as where she was looking, and we get a better sense of how close he was to the car when it started moving towards him.
My personal update from this footage is: if I saw this driver look at me and then surge forward with her car and hit me I would reasonably conclude she's trying to hurt me/my partners. She is dangerous.
Whether she intended to hurt me is interesting but not relevant to my decision to open fire. I'd absolutely have shot her too.
Basically, she seems more dangerous and the agent more reasonable than yesterday.
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Well at a minimum, it doesn't appear that the officer was trying to game the situation by setting up a situation here if the woman tried to drive away, then he'd have an excuse to shoot her. I believe a lot of people had been suggesting that.
Also, it doesn't appear that this woman was just an innocent bystander or an "observer," but rather she was part of the crew that were trying to obstruct and provoke ICE agents.
Disagree: that more or less implicitly is what standing in front of her car is, though I wouldn't phrase it "an excuse to shoot her." Obviously his body can't physically stop the car, but by standing in front of the car he's applying the implied/assumed consequences of hitting him to deter her from leaving. "I'll stand here so if you try to escape you'll have to hit me, and you know hitting me will make things way worse for you than just trying to escape otherwise." Those consequences are both "an additional serious charge" and also "you might get shot."
Did you see the most recent video? It seems to depict the officer walking in a big circle around the car, as opposed to planting himself in front of it. Agreed?
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