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Comment by Tadpole9181

3 days ago

> this video will likely be glad just instantly

Again.

Anyway, the video shows that we've unequivocally entered open-air brownshirt executions.

This person was pinned to the ground by three people while another was just wailing against their head from above. Hard to tell what object they're using as a cudgel to their face.

Then the subsequent mag dumping just to be extra sure they're dead.

We really need that lady in the back to release her video.

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lynndotpy  3 days ago

For anyone wondering why this is relevant to HackerNews:

- There are tech companies and workers in companies outside California,

- A government deploying a militarized police force to execute people in the streets is bad for the economy,

- That government is the United States, and so this is bad for the world economy,

- A lot of the people in our industry are immigrants from outside the United States,

- If you're a HackerNews user in the United States, you can be shot and killed just like this.

  • baubino  3 days ago

    Also, that this kind of state violence and collapse of democracy is underway in the country that also happens to be the center of the global tech industry is something that all HNers should care about.

  • matsemann  3 days ago

    - most of this has been helped by big tech. By algorithms polarizing people, rich people buying social media to further their agenda, etc

  • prime_ursid  3 days ago

    Another reason: individual liberty is and has been an important value in the tech community since the 1960s.

    • direwolf20  2 days ago

      Has it? The original hacker movement surely had it, but is that still the tech community? I feel that since about 2012 the tech community has been money seekers — people who want to own the next AirBNB and Uber — and they don't care about individual liberty.

fzeroracer  3 days ago

It's absolutely inexcusable, even moreso than the murder of Renee Good. Though I fully expect the usual suspects to show up and claim it was justified because he was resisting arrest, which seems to be the popular modus operandi for justifying execution by the state.

  • theossuary  3 days ago

    I don't know how you think this is worse than Renee Good's murder. She was shot in the temple through the driver side window while being directed by an Ice agent to drive away. She was then denied medical care at the scene, and local police were denied access to investigate while the shooter was shepherded out of state as quickly as possible

  • simmerup  3 days ago

    I think they're both inexcusable. Both are entire worlds that have been removed from the earth, because some insecure men were given guns and power by Trump

  • foldr  3 days ago

    "We haven't quite decided yet whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape."

joemazerino  3 days ago

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  • array_key_first  3 days ago

    And, as everyone knows, the typical punishment for resisting arrest is public execution.

    In revolutionary France.

  • Tadpole9181  3 days ago

    They have two agents holding his hands to the ground while another is beating him in the face with a baton repeatedly. That's not an arrest!

    They're just thugs who gang up on people and use the violence they themselves are committing as proof of "resisting arrest" to justify escalating violence. There are now numerous videos of them using excessive force, like spraying a from inches away while while am agent has them pinned down, hands behind back. Or a subdued person in cuffs getting a knee to the back of their neck.

  • _DeadFred_  3 days ago

    Stop with the soft defense/soft endorsement of Federal officials executing people on the street.