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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!
She was an agitator trying to cause trouble and he was a stressed out ICE agent dealing with a hostile crowd. When threatened with the possibility of arrest for obstructing law enforcement, she hit the gas. Why? Don't know, though someone (her wife?) yelled at her to drive, so maybe it was just that. She was not attempting to kill or assault the ICE agent and may not have even realized that she would hit him. The ICE agent, meanwhile, was not just idly standing in front of her vehicle, but rather walking around it when she started to move. He was likely especially concerned about being hit and dragged by the vehicle, since it had happened to him once already. She did strike him, but not in a manner which was seriously life threatening, but in that split second the ICE agent had the possibly unreasonable belief that his life was in danger and his reflexes did the rest.
Had the vehicle been moving a little faster or had made a more direct impact, then his life might really have been in danger. Had he been two more steps to the side then she would have missed him entirely and would not have been shot. These interactions presumably happen frequently for ICE, but the vast majority of the time people get lucky and nobody gets seriously hurt. Although she was violating the law and creating a dangerous situation, she obviously did not deserve to die and it's a genuine tragedy that she did. She should not have been there and the people who organize these "protests" need to be stopped. If the ICE agent could reload a previous save game and try again, then I'm pretty sure he would not to pull the trigger.
He was not a sadistic murderer and she was not a dangerous terrorist attempting to murder ICE agents. Both of them probably privately fantasized about lethal violence against the other side.
The broader issue is that many parts of the country appear to not want to be subject to immigration law and are in open defiance against it.
I've heard of restaurants refusing service to ICE agents too.
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