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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.
I mostly see lefties sliding goalposts.
Which is to say, they are 'changing' their minds, but only exactly as much as needed to maintain the outrage.
Sadly, I've seen nothing but doubling and tripling down that this video just proves all "rightoids" are completely delusional, replete with "boot licker" and "psychopath" thrown around liberally, with ruminations on how "there's no living with these people;" in other words, "something" will have to be done about "the fascists" (which, to no-one's surprise, just happens to coincide with power fantasies of eliminating people they don't agree with).
Leftists always double down has been a known thing for a while now.
The irony i'm seeing is the tacit admission that this video makes the victim look like a hostile interloper while the ICE Officer was calmly filming the interaction... and some are claiming her 'bravely' confronting him is why he wanted to shoot her.
As proof of this, they point out he called her a 'bitch' under his breath after the incident. Y'know, after she drove the car at him.
Dropped all pretense of "just some random passerby".
On twitter I was just accused of lacking empathy for simply pointing out that this video makes her look very aware of her actions and very much not a pure victim of circumstance.
I don't think the right should be holding the dude up as a hero or anything, either, but the lefty impulse to make martyrs out of their people seems to be irresistible to them.
Personally I don’t think guy is a hero and if I knew him I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he was a violent asshole. However, I think the right has learned something they didn’t know in 2020 with Chauvin. As you said, the left will always defend their own and will happily make heroes out of murderers. They will make sure Weather Underground terrorists get sinecures and support. This woman’s partner will get a massive gofundme. It is time the right does the same, even if the people don’t deserve it. Like the gofundme for that n-word lady (both of them). I expect we will see the right much more vigorously defending this guy, they won’t just let the left destroy him like they did Chauvin, there will probably be a highly successful gofundme as well
Hell, the right's problem seems to be that they won't come to the aid of their 'heroes' once they've been expunged of all their usefulness and 15 minutes of fame.
As a purely strategic matter, Kyle Rittenhouse, after his not-guilty, should have been given an easy, decently paying job at a think tank or some state-level political office, keep him generally out of public eye but also comfortable enough standard of living. Instead he's working at a gun store in the Florida Panhandle.
Nobody expects that becoming a sacrifice for the right's cause will get them any material rewards or posthumous accolades. I would point out that people have already sort of forgotten Iryna.
Vance at least is making all the right signals for backing the foot soldiers. I doubt they throw their people under the bus anymore. One of the biggest signs of the changing times came when an ICE prosecutor with a blatantly racist Twitter account didn't get fired when it came out.
What's to say that Kyle wants a sinecure at a desk? He's got a full time job, healthy twitter fanbase, and can still get speaking gigs. Certainly I wouldn't say that he was sacrificed by any means.
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Do, just to pick a famous example, the January 6 pardons not count?
I mean, they would, had they not been such a heroic effort on the part of the electorate voting for a guy explicitly running on promising to do so. Most establishment Republicans denounced it, along with mainstream Republican media organizations.
I don't know if they still thought there was some value in trying to be perceived as "fairly calling balls and strikes" or if they are addicted to losing, or if they really are controlled opposition. But rest assured, the only reason that happened is because a possibly crazy person (and I say that affectionately) won a historical electoral victory with that as a part of his public platform, to the consternation and finger wagging of nearly everyone with fake PTSD from Jan 6th.
And in another historical first, he actually did what he promised on the campaign trail. Which the political class cried was somehow "corrupt". What you are supposed to do is promise to do things and then not do them! Anything less is immoral!
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It appears that Daniel Penny got hired by Andreessen Horowitz.
Interesting. I'm familiar with that account and it's a spicy one. I can't say I'm all that surprised it was an attorney working for ICE, although the method of discovering who it was reeks of parallel construction.
Good point, although I'd guess he actually had some merit to warrant the position.
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