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.
@xanaofficial_ what’s the turn around time on the videos? May or may not be planning to propose and i think she’d lose her mind if you helped me ask 🙈👀
Conversion therapy is torture. Literally torture. They physically abuse, electrocute and chemically poison gay kids to try and ‘fix’ them. And it doesn’t work. It’s pseudoscience. Those subjected to conversion therapy are 88% more likely to commit suicide and 0% more likely to become straight.
If you voted for this, just know you voted to torture innocent children and make them commit suicide. Let me repeat that: YOU VOTED FOR TORTURE AND SUICIDE. You are evil and psychotic if you support this.
<School shooting>
GOP: thoughts and prayers, but there’s nothing we can do about it. Too soon to talk about guns.
<Charlie Kirk shooting>
GOP: this is war. Disarm all leftists!
If you’re more radicalized over the death of a podcaster than children, unfuck your priorities.
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
People will look you dead in the eye and tell you to "have respect" for a person who has spent their entire career making sure YOU don't get to live an equal and happy life, or live at all.