@JDVance Let me get this straight,
He didn't brandish his gun, he didn't reach for his gun and you're saying he was killed for practicing his 2ND AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CARRY A GUN?
Are you fucking serious?
I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus.
It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her.
ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her.
Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable.
I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.
As a gay man, it enrages me to hear people call Charlie Kirk homophobic. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Listen to his response to a question from an ACTUAL homophobe.
@LukeSo20 @MDGolfer00 @tompawnbadil@GREGORYEDWARD11 You’ve created an imaginary enemy to hate. I am none of these things you call libs or radical leftists. I follow Jesus Christ. Hate does not come from God. That is the absence of God as Jesus Christ taught us in his teachings, death and resurrection
@LukeSo20 @MDGolfer00 @tompawnbadil@GREGORYEDWARD11 “My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!”
James 3:1, 5 NKJV
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@LukeSo20 @MDGolfer00 @tompawnbadil@GREGORYEDWARD11 All of it actually, more than once and continually daily. Thanks so much. Not many should be teachers. The tongue is a small thing, but like a small fire can burn down a huge forest.