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A Deeply Fractured US

Appears to be a legit video. Utterly irrelevant to the decision of officers to use force the day he was killed.

True. But in a world where 'truth' can't be social nor believed, conspiracy theories abound. In reporting of the previous encounter between Pretti and ICE agents, there is notably the question of whether or not any of the agents were at both incidents. Prior behaviour may be irrelevant to the justification for the killing, but knowledge of previous encounter could be relevant to premeditation.
 
They beat him up, and drove away without detaining or arresting him. This is not the gotcha some (not here) are calling this, in fact it doesn't make ICE/DHS look any better.

Didn't pull his CCW out in this instance either.
Or shoot him ten times in the back after disarming him.

If you’re gonna thump a dude, you better make the arrest. Seems they didn’t even ID him. Clearly he committed an offence that time. Sloppy police work.
 
Or shoot him ten times in the back after disarming him.

If you’re gonna thump a dude, you better make the arrest. Seems they didn’t even ID him. Clearly he committed an offence that time. Sloppy police work.

You’re assuming they’re trained in police work in 47 days.
 

While disturbing, vile, idiotic . . . there's a long list of descriptives that could be used to indicate how wrong it is, it's actually not a whole 'new' level of messed up. We just hear about this kind of shit more because the perpetrators post about it themselves, or once taken to task their transgressions are endlessly discussed (occasionally accurately) on social media.

This CRNA should rightly be subject to some administrative or disciplinary measures by whatever licensing authority exists in her state. The 50 different authorities down there don't necessarily function the same way as the 'colleges' do in Canada or even the same as other states. Depending on location, direct political input into their decisions are not unheard of. I did wonder if there had been any incidents of clinicians on the other side of the political spectrum who made comments about injuring (or providing substandard care) to patients who may disagree with their political or social views. Or perhaps I should say "publicized" incidents - I've run across a few during my years in the health care sphere who were less than circumspect in keeping their opinions to themselves. But thankfully it is far more difficult to deny care in Canada, than in the USA (though there will probably be comments about poor performance of Canada's health care system).
 
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