Seems like ICE always claims that the person wasn’t who they meant to shoot and that they posed a threat, even if it always turns out to be lies.

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      This is, to put it mildly, really bad. They’re admitting that the ICE traitor wasn’t in any danger. But thought letting people with darker skin than his go free was so terrible he had to shoot.

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    Not sure why ICE can’t stop killing civilians. Just a bunch of moronic knuckle-dragging jackasses who never had any friends in high school. Now they’re irresponsibly put in a position of power with weapons. Who knew such fuckups could happen?

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    and they used the same excuse “he was using his vehicle as a weapon!” so…how many times is that now?

    man the US is a shithole country.

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      ICE isn’t even saying that now. Just that he was driving away so it was necessary to shoot for public safety.

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    What are they going to do NOT Vote for Me?

    -Susan Collins, who voted to FUND ICE with BILLIONS of Taxpayer Dollars, who is PROBABLY Right!

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    So then that’s murder.

    It would be murder otherwise, but it’s arguably not under the umbrella of qualified immunity in this context. I hope the fucker gets life. Or, well, even prosecuted at all, because the bar is very fucking low at this point.

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      Nah, even if they weren’t the target, it happened in the “line of duty”. Same shit as when a SWAT team accidentally kills a kid through a wall after raiding a house, or when a cop runs a driver off the road while chasing down another vehicle.

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    When civilians do it, it’s a gang shooting of an innocent bystander. When ICE does it, it’s a bureaucratic whoopsy.

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    They actually intended to shoot someone else and that dude was simply brown in the wrong part of town.