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spwa4today at 7:07 PM4 repliesview on HN

I mean, on the one hand, I support this. But this is going pretty far. When it comes to non-US police and military, if your threshold is killing 2 innocents (and the officers getting away with it), then you can't do business almost anywhere ...

With essentially any country, and even vaguely similar circumstances

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/05/belgian-police...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/20/belgian-police...

And this is just a random example country (with excellent beer), you will find worse than this in most/all European countries, especially in the last 10 years or so.


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jmcgoughtoday at 7:18 PM

This is pretty different - in both of those, the officer faced consequences. Unidentified masked ICE officers have killed about a person a month with no consequences, many times over a civil concern (immigration status) or just getting annoyed with protesters who broke no laws. ICE is effectively a lethal extrajudicial force with no means of seeking accountability when they kill.

On top of that, they are acting aggressively and violently in broad daylight solely to terrorize immigrant communities. The chilling effect is very visible in hospital systems right now - I have seen far less Hispanics in the hospital for medical emergencies, and that includes people who are in this country legally.

wiz21ctoday at 7:11 PM

IOW: "if I have to kill only 2-3 people to make the business I want to make, then, bah, so be it".

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khalictoday at 7:26 PM

What a dishonest mischaracterization of the issue at hand, shame on you

boston_clonetoday at 7:15 PM

your straw man is misrepresenting the scale of violence ICE has inflicted on communities across the country. the article states it was after Alex Pirettis death that he was inspired to act. ICE has killed many people across the country during activities which they have no business conducting. A man in Houston was killed last week, then days later, another in Maine. They’ve shot citizens and fabricated evidence to cover up their actions in multiple instances.

Wake the fuck up and stop trying to whatabout your way to a more comfortable mental state.

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