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I can't parse this in any other way than you just say whatever first comes to mind with no critical filter

"If they did it there must be a good reason"

Who will wash the brains of these people

You subservient, cowardly little slime. Lower than the lowest animal.

I know this person can't respond but I want to make an important point for the people reading this.

You absolutely are saying it's right. You say that ICE was harassing a woman because they felt it was necessary, with no interrogation of what that actually means. As if ICE can only react rationally to what they perceive as threats, as if ICE can soberly and rationally perceive threats. Then you frame the shooting as an almost mechanical consequence, like that of a ball rolling down hill due to physical forces, of state power interacting with perceived hostility. Again this is without critical thought of what that truly means and assumes the state is just a rational actor abiding by some rational law, of which the victims failed to account. You're essentially saying it's like standing in front a freight train running at full speed. The nascent law of the universe says that the human sized object will be obliterated if they don't respect the kinetic energy of the multi-ton behemoth. Therefore it's kinda their fault for not stepping out of the way. Painting these human actions as some natural system of mechanics is endorsing it as the rule of nature. You are saying it's right because to go against it is to fight against the inevitability of nature.

None of this was inevitable. It's not the result of natural laws. It's not a Rube Goldberg machine that is impossible to stop once it's in motion. It is an intentional, manufactured outcome. It's an intentional decision by the leaders of the state to not intervene in protecting its citizens. It's an intentional decision by the leaders of the federal state to point untrained, highly ideological murderers at the citizenry to make a political statement. It is an intentional, multi-generational effort to make sure citizens are as defenseless as possible with the least amount of oversight or input into the state. These things culminate in yesterday's events. It is nothing to do with the individual decisions of Alex or the person he was defending. To frame it like their individual decisions is just as much a cause as the historical confluence of class struggle is morally repugnant and lacks any intellectual merit.

I disagree with how everything is being handled.

Not brutal enough for you. No question mark because it's not a question.