Lastly, this has been rattling around my mind: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential, command’ - George Orwell, 1984.
This is exactly what's happening and it's terrifying. I cannot believe what they're openly doing right now. And what I mean by they is the American government. We all talk about Putin and the fat guy from Korea, about how they're dictators and evil monsters but so many fail to see that there is a much worse monster sat in his newly refurbished gold plated oval office. The American government right now is playing a twisted game of (in their own words) FAFO. I'm not gonna go into the countless examples as this is a thread about a specific case and we aren't allowed to get political, so I'll only mention relevant stuff. We have a filmed and viral display of premeditated murder, yet we have the president, the vice president and other members of the government publicly stating that our eyes are lying to us and we should ignore them and drink up the kool aid they're dishing out. They have pulled strings and ensured that this crime will never see the inside of a court room. They have attempted to turn an innocent victim into a criminal and a terrorist to fit their narrative that their ice agent attack dog was "just doing his job" by shooting a human being three times in the face and killing her because hey, FAFO. I am honestly petrified of what's to come. I'm English, I live in England, but I've spent a huge amount of time in the states since being a kid, I even went to school there 3 months out of the year for like 9 years. I loved America. I was recently looking at going over again and came across all the new requirements for entry, social media was mentioned. They want to check your social media! It reminded me of another thing in 1984 - "
The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed – would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper. The essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you." What's coming if the American government get their way is a totalitarian superstate and it's very worrying.
Youre right he could have not shot but I'm not going to try and guess why he did. When you're walking in front of a car that's reversing and suddenly they are in drive and you see or hear the front tires spin you have a second to make a decision. He very easily could have taken that as she was trying to run him over. He has to make that decision instantly while we get hours and days to Monday morning quarter back his decision
In every angle of the crime footage you can see that he made the choice to get in front of the vehicle. You can see that he made the choice to raise his gun instead of stepping out of the way, which he could have easily done. You can see that he made the choice to fire his gun at the vehicle windscreen. Most importantly you can see that he made the choice to step closer to this vehicle that was apparently a danger to him and fire two more shots into the drivers side window point blank into the drivers face instead of lowering his weapon and stepping away from the vehicle after the first shot.
He made the choices. I posted in an earlier comment about the definition of premeditation in Minnesota, premeditation can be in seconds before an act. He had choices and a safe space to retreat to from the supposed danger, yet he chose to step into it and shoot a woman three times in the face.
The self defense speel doesn't fly either as again, he made the choice to put himself in front of the "perceived danger" along with the fact that the vehicle was turning away from him. ETA - Also the extra shots he fired after the initial shot blow self defense out of the water. He fired a shot through the windscreen then changed his position by moving to the open window and firing again at the victim twice more. I would love to see this play out in court but we all know magalicious won't let that happen.
If this wasn't an ice agent and this was a situation with a random man with a gun screaming at a woman in a car, with him standing in front of the car whilst his mate is ragging on the door trying to open it, so she tries to get away but he shoots her three times in the head... If this was a situation like that and was filmed like this crime was so we could witness it, I can guarantee that all of you trying to defend the man, wouldn't be. You would be saying what it is - a murder. Not self defense or stand your ground. It was a murder and we all here would be calling for justice.
MOO - Sorry if my spelling is messy or this reads a bit unclear, I've just taken my night meds and I'm a bit wewhew
