Video shows Texas National Guard soldiers appearing to ignore a mother and baby’s pleas for help in the Rio Grande

  • bean@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So much for protecting children and the sanctity of life. I mean. Abortion is off the table there, but they don’t respect living and breathing humans, not even women and children in need.

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      1 year ago

      beyond need. Begging, literally drowning. the sheer will she had to muster to survive that encounter alone will haunt her…and not the drowning, the look of indifference in those soldiers eyes, watching her…

  • Poayjay@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Missing a huge piece of information in the title and article: were they at least halfway across? Uniformed military members cannot cross the boarder conducting operations. As fucked as this situation is, Texas conducting military operations on Mexican soil is a whole lot worse. Given the tone of the article and the fact that they didn’t say, leads me to believe they were not on US soil and the guardsman could not do anything.

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      1 year ago

      That is pretty key, there could have been a horribly legal reason why they “watched”. I don’t know what I would or could have done in their situation, but it seems a damned if you do damn d if you don’t situation.

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    1 year ago

    NG guys signed up to cosplay as Call of Duty operators not help people. Just being real. Most of the guys that do that job are racists.