When a federal agent tells you to get out of your car and instead of obeying the officers commands you take off hitting an officer in the process. That’s a dangerous situation being escalated.
Saying that out loud doesn’t make someone hateful. It makes them honest.
IMO I don’t think she intentionally ran into him or wanted to run him over. The event was chaotic and it happened very quickly. From what I’ve seen so far I don’t think the shooting was justified. However, I don’t know all the details. I think it was a very unfortunate situation that should have been handled by both parties differently.
Minnesota, (especially Minneapolis) hasn’t been the same since Floyd, the riots and Covid.
Most people will say it’s best to stay quiet—or you’ll be labeled the problem. That isn’t justice. And it isn’t truth.
Minnesota deserves better.
America deserves honesty.
Respectfully,
Let us look at his actions. Just the intent and the result.
Just because the federal agent has the power to issue orders, does not justify the said agent being a total fool. Sorry. But you must have seen what I saw, too.
I listened to an ex-cop explaining the situation, how they are trained, the laws. I can easily say how this ex-cop voted and that he doesn't like BLM. But even he could not justify the reason behind shooting the driver of a moving car through the windshield, standing in front of the car, if you want to stop the said car.
What did Ross expect to happen after that? It is a heavy car. Is it going to magically stop if the driver is killed? No, it continues moving, due to inertia. And then, as seen on one video taken from the second floor, it hits the white car standing ahead. And we are lucky that there was one body that day. With the the slow speed of Good's car, and no passengers in the white car, it just mightily destroyed the trunk, to the surprise of ICE agents...
And if yesterday I thought that the second and third shots through the window indicated Ross being trigger-happy, today it suddenly dawned on me.
The mindless jerk was continuing to shoot the driver to stop the moving car!
Logically, it makes as much sense as shooting a cowboy to stop a horse, but for sure, Ross is a good marksman, so he killed Good.
JMO. Nothing in the scene, no prior PTSD of Ross, no ICE, no federal status, can explain the sheer idiocy of shooting the driver to stop a moving car.
You don't need training. You don't need to be a driver to understand that a dead passenger is not going to push the brake...
I am not a cop. I never asked myself "how to act if you are armed and want to stop a moving car". Today, I asked myself, where would I aim at, and of course, got an idea. ...and we all saw chase movies, too. Where do they all shoot?
It is a very dangerous situation when a federal agent, with a gun aimed at you, gives you conflicting orders, and worse, does not have the capacity to understand the logical consequence of his actions.
So maybe he would be good at signing papers. But in the field, he is a walking menace. And if it is his second incident, that means that his logical reasoning is poor. I think someone has to look into his first incident and see what really happened there.
So, I don't know about training or even vetting. But one shouldn't blame regular innocent citizens for a federal agent being dumb.
America deserves better.
(And ICE deserves better, too. There should be some tests for reasoning, etc).