Recent content by Amonet

In what way did he amp up that behaviour a week later would you say? I don't honestly think he would have treated a patient like that, he was angry at what he thought was injustice and at the behaviour he knew ICE to be capable of. That can bring on anger in people, and I would suggest anger...

I found that a very helpful read. I think it explains some of the anxious feelings and distaste some are feeling when seeing these organisations in action and the choices they make. I also think the article does offer helpful assessment of differences that could be applied to ICE to make it...

Perhaps they should stand back from the deceased individual, once it's ascertained that they are beyond assistance, and call local police to deal with the body and do forensics and let them collect evidence from the body? This kind of separation from the person who one of their officers has shot...

I think this is really well said. I also think armed LE need to be trained for such scenarios so that they do not overreact in the way they did here. If they're going to be armed, if they're going to be sent into chaotic environments, they need training so that they don't immediately shoot...

For how long will "Good Samaritans" exist in the US when they see what happens to people who go to the assistance of another person? The lesson here appears to be that if, in the presence of ICE or Border Patrol, do not go to the assistance of anyone who is pushed or falls to the ground. If you...

And AP was not the "instigator" of what happened at any point. He did not push anyone. He did not unholster his weapon. He did not point a weapon. He did not shoot a weapon.

The possibility of second, unidentified, weapon makes me think that this logic would be the same as assuming, without evidence, that any person had an unseen weapon, and that the weapon was an immediate threat, and that therefore deadly force would be necessary to save lives. I think this is...

If I thought they feared for their lives I would feel totally differently. He's reaching to help a woman up from the sidewalk. Are they threatened by that to the point where they need to use pepper spray? Then he's struggling on the ground being beaten up. They seem very much in control of...

If no one had seen the video and they only read that description....this thread would only be 5 pages long.

I can't speak to the law but I do think it's a fair point that a trained medical professional like a nurse might be more inclined than some people (who might be more reticent) to immediately run towards someone who's fallen or been pushed over. When I had a bad fall a few years ago by the side...

Thanks for the explanation of your thinking. Those officers did not know anything about AP. They did not know he was a nurse. All they knew was that he was among the observers to their actions, that he had been filming them. And that he went over to a woman one of them had shoved to the...

Snipped by me. Yes, I would agree with this. I think some people just want the public to stay well away and let the officers get on with what they're doing. And those people believe that what the officers are trying to do is to arrest violent criminal illegal immigrants. I think that's what...

While I wouldn't compare AP to anyone, his second 'intervention' that led to his death was to go to the assistance of a woman who'd been shoved to the snowy/icy ground. He appeared to want to help the woman up, not to be threatening the officer who shoved her. I think on a human level it...

Agreed wholeheartedly. I also think some of the comparisons being made recently refer more to other aspects of the actions, policies, and beliefs of the regime in question and not solely focused on individuals of a single religion and how horrifically they were treated by that regime. There...

I don't think that is how they perceive what they are doing.