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Comment by 0dayz

13 hours ago

Abiding the law?

What law did they break to constitute being shot dead on the spot?

Or do you now support vague charges like "obstruction of justice"?

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kreetx  13 hours ago

One person showed up with a gun, the other tried to flee (or run over) an officer.

Wold you as a police officer always behave perfectly in any urgent situation?

  • array_key_first  8 hours ago

    Trying to flee is famously not a justification for murder, if anything it's the opposite. You're literally kicking someone while they're down. Or, uh, shooting them. Obviously a fleeing person is not a threat to your life, which is the ONLY justification for a shooting.

  • 0dayz  7 hours ago

    So anytime an officer kills a person with a gun, that is now justified?

    Despite the fact that the man in question that was killed had a legal permit for said gun AND 1 of the ICE agent even took his gun away and despite this was shot to death while lying on the ground?

    So where is the urgency? Not enough KDA ratio to score high enough on the scoreboard?

    • kreetx  5 hours ago

      Your version seems to be that they randomly opened fire. Another version is that a gun went off, not all of the officers knew where the victims gun was, they had also heard someone yell "gun", so after the first shot they opened fire.

      It's not that you can be shot at by law enforcement when you are carrying a gun, but that you can be shot at when there is an apparent reason that you are firing at them with it. I'm sure ICE isn't happy about how the events turned out either. But for the protesters: just don't bring a gun!

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  • vharuck  7 hours ago

    If you have the right to bear arms, but law enforcement officers can shoot you if they spot that gun, then you don't actually have the right to bear arms.

    • kreetx  5 hours ago

      You do have the right to bear arms but bearing arms conveys a meaning, that you'd see a reason to use it, so if you have a gun at an event where there are ample amounts of law enforcement present, against who would you be protecting yourself?