- Thu Jan 08, 2026 12:08 am
#103180
Can someone tell me what the average, normal (if such a thing exists) American makes of this idiocy?
I'll save you the grimness, but lay out what I saw and compare it to the government's response.
The lady is in a vehicle that is perpendicular on the street. I don't know, but the implication seems to be she is involved, in some way, with monitoring/protesting/observing ICE activity. It's not normal, as one often sees from footage of people doing this whilst ICE do whatever they tell themselves they need to do.
Some vehicles are moving up the road towards her: she seems to wave a vehicle past her, and said vehicle speeds past. She seems to indicate again, but the next vehicle to come stops, and out jump two or three men - ICE agents, it seems. They rapidly approach the car, trying to get in and/or, conceivably, wrench her out. Seems the logical intention. The driver sets the car to go: clear signs of making ready, wheels turning right. An ICE officer is in front, left side. The car moves forwards and right, and the officer moves left as the car moves right, and shoots (I believe several times) the driver through the window, almost point-blank range. They died.
The shooter, in another video, walks away from the scene. More bullshit happens with the paramedics, apparently, but not seen.
What is the government response?
Trump's statement is, of course, a Trumpean statement. We expect absolute fatuity, absolute contempt, absolute mendacity. But comparing and contrasting is quite something. There is absolutely not a shred of truth in any of it, other than the driver was shot. Literally nothing else is true.
This, of course, is in many ways not new for the USA - federal/state 'lawful' violence against individuals, generalised gun violence, the immediate recourse to lethality (I visited the US conservative sub reddit to see what they thought: apparently being shot for driving away is perfectly fine, standard, and CLEARLY the government goons are heroes and the "Don't Tread on Me" crowd have had a strange change of heart...) but the brazenness of the lies, the absolute contempt, and the utterly transparent propaganda machine whirring up right in front of one's eyes. Wow. They are beyond contemptible. And, again: they don't care. They just don't care. Nobody should take them sincerely, but they should take them VERY seriously.
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