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VertanaNinjaitoday at 9:11 PM

We must be watching different videos. There is no ramming or fishtailing of any vehicles in that body cam footage. Sounds like another case where ICE has released falsehoods as press releases and then went silent when it fell apart against evidence.

Law enforcement is always timely releasing bodycam footage when it shows them in a good light, but if it doesn’t? They wouldn’t even produce the video for this guy in court until after the deadline for discovery had passed.

OgsyedIEtoday at 9:00 PM

Your comment is entirely untrue. The video shows a stopped car at rest, and you know this, because you are intentionally spreading falsehoods for the purpose of "flooding the zone with shit".

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mkespertoday at 9:12 PM

Article: In October, Parias was leaving his home and driving down the street when federal agents — including from ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service — used their vehicles to box him in, according to the criminal complaint.

Body-worn camera footage captures the ICE officer approaching Parias’ passenger side door and almost immediately stating that he’s going to “break the window.” As the officer smashes the window, the car begins to rev, later sending smoke billowing into the air. The officer pulls out his gun soon afterward, holding it in one hand as he smashes the window at the same time with the other.

The complaint alleged that when the rear of the car began to “fishtail,” it “caused the agents to fear that PARIAS may lose control of the Camry and hit them.” A Homeland Security Investigations agent wrote that Parias’ acceleration of the Camry “caused debris (likely rubber being shed from the tires themselves) to fly into the air, which struck some of the agents.”

emerongitoday at 9:07 PM

I don’t see myself shooting someone in that situation. Worst-case scenario seems to be that he somehow manages to break away and drive off. Nobody seems to be in direct danger to me. He isn’t some sort of actively dangerous criminal that needs to be stopped at any cost, so even in the worst case scenario you just catch him some other time.

I’m an european. Gun use in US is simply completely normalized. Even if you say that the law allows shooting him there, why would anyone support that?

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fedposttoday at 9:06 PM

Bullshit. I watched the video. The car never moves.

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