I don't disagree, even stated here a few times myself I wouldn't take a firearm to a protest personally, just like I wouldn't attempt to drive away when a person in authority is giving me a command.
But that's the beauty of things isn't it. We can agree that people put themselves in situations at higher risk. But we can also agree or disagree that what ended them was an over exertion of force, or incompetence that could potentially be a pervasive issue among Officers, etc., or form an line of thought that justified such actions. We can agree or disagree civil rights were totally ignored.
Does not matter to me, both have a voice, on this one though, I am quite firmly on gross incompetence and political polarization getting both people and ICE officers worked up into frenzies where you see totally unnecessary aggression.
Addresses from the government actually feel like online shitposts. They have no class anymore. Its purposeful sewing of hatred in my opinion.
agreed 100%, training could have helped prevent this instance because from the videos it really was not needed to shoot him. More than anything the hatred and lack of empathy from both "sides" is really the root cause. When you start seeing people who think differently as a threat opposed to a valuable human in which you could learn from you start buying into the hate imo. Personally I love when people think differently than I do, it gives me an opportunity to learn something more.
IMO the crazy thing is that the people in America who are on one "side" or the other is actually really small. Most people are moderate and want:
not to live in a police state
people to protest peacefully
laws to be enforced (from illegal immigration all the way up to punishing the elite fucks who have stolen so much the last few decades)