ICE agents point guns at bystanders during violent arrest in Maryland
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“What’re you gonna do? Shoot me?” one witness yelled. “Go ahead. Shoot me.”

The officer apparently tried to tuck a gun into his pants instead of using a holster, failed, dropped the gun, and menaced bystanders in response to his own failure

  • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
    112·
    2 days ago

    An ICE agent pointing a gun at someone like this deserves to be fired. He basically doubled down on his own incompetency.

    • LordCrom@lemmy.world
      55·
      2 days ago

      Problem is, who is the officer? No name, no badge number, unmarked car…

      This is how the riots start. Sooner or later one of these untrained ice agents will shoot a civilian because he is scared. Somebody in that crowd will shoot back…and then it begins.

        • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
          41·
          24 hours ago

          As an American, i just wanted to say fuck you.

          A lot of good people are going to die. Your supposed entertainment here will be mostly poor people, and those who feel they can’t stand by while evil people oppress them.

          • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            23 hours ago

            1. To clarify, I do not enjoy this either, but its more of a comment about the state of affairs. The fact that we’ve become so desensitized that everything feels unreal/surreal, the events feel almost as if it were a movie. Hence “popcorn”. Its a sarcastic comment, not to be taken seriously. Its like how people laughs when something bad is about to happen, its nervous-laughter, a response to trauma. Sorry if you interpreted this comment this wrong way.

            2. I’m also American, but I’m not white and I wasn’t born here in the US, I cannot afford to intervene. I’m also being persecuted by my previous country, and I can’t really put myself on the radar for two governments to come after me and my family/relatives, some of which aren’t citizens yet, so I’m bit of in a “Snowden” type situation, sorry, but I can’t do much. I’m afraid to go outside because xenophobes would tell me to “go home”.

    • Wilco@lemmy.zip
      25·
      2 days ago

      That would get him shot in my state. This guy wasn’t masked, but if they are masked they can be considered criminals, a criminal pointing a gun at you is 100% self defense if you shoot him. It would never go to court.

      No badge is about the same, but not as blatant/clear cut. You can say you thought he was a criminal, but the issue would need to go to court. In the end he pointed his gun at bystanders so shooting at him would likely be self defense … but how fair would the system be?