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> The video shows the ICE agent just straight up killing her unprovoked, against the narrative they're currently trying to setup that she was a terrorist

Don't try to bend the facts while there's literal video of the confrontation, as you yourself noted. She was being commanded to step out of the vehicle (My speculation: to be arrested) and refused to do so while accelerating the vehicle quickly with an officer standing in front of her vehicle. If the drivers intent was to commit vehicular homicide or not is obviously unknown (and at this point unknowable), it was not unprovoked in any way.

Intentionally or not she was accelerating her vehicle toward someone. Regardless of if the reaction of the agent was justified, it was 100% provoked by the driver.

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Just before the agents came out of their car another ICE car passed in front of her car. She was waving the agents to pass her. She could not back-up, because there were people standing/walking behind her car. She was not blocking the road, but nevertheless the ICE agents came out of their car to confront her. Context does matter.

After the women got shot, the agent who shot lost the scene taking the weapon with him, which is against all regulations. Other ICE agents prevented medical help from a doctor who identified himself as such and the blocked an ambulance, making them complicit with the murder as she might have been saved if she had gotten medical treatment immediately.

Seems like the car was turning relatively slowly away from the ICE officer. At 00:18 in the video when you can hear the gunshots, he's not in the path of the vehicle. Even if he somehow thought the vehicle was heading towards him, it looks like he could have easily stepped back.

If a masked federal law enforcement officer can shoot someone with impunity in a situation that could have easily been avoided, then we are in a very dangerous place.

Not to be grim, it seems like the car suddenly accelerating was actually due to the being shot.

while accelerating the vehicle quickly with an officer standing in front of her vehicle

This is false. He started drawing his gun while she was still in reverse (to turn and drive away) and was not 'in front of the vehicle' but approaching the front left of the vehicle. Nor was she 'accelerating the vehicle quickly.' You are simply being untruthful.

Frankly, with multiple masked goons pulling weapons approaching, any evasive/defensive maneuvers would have been fully justified.

> She was being commanded to step out of the vehicle

She was given conflicting order by different officers. One order to drive on, one order to step out of her vehicle.

Which is standard cop practice to just yell conflicting orders out and then wind up killing someone for not complying with one of them.

> and refused to do so while accelerating the vehicle quickly with an officer standing in front of her vehicle.

Cop was off to the left of her hood, and she had her wheels hard to the right and drove around him. She wasn't aimed at him. He wasn't in danger.

She did none of the above. You didn't watch the video. Her tires were turned away from the officer and said officers were to the side of her vehicle, well and clear from any sort of harm.

> She was being commanded to step out of the vehicle

by ICE? they have no authority to detain or arrest US citizens.

If nobody is going to enforce limits, then they have the authority to do whatever they want.

Forget "not enforce limits" their boss has said that they're actively going to ignore court orders.

oooooooofffff. How’s that boot taste? Like plastic maralago face? DELISH.

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