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Comment by Tadpole9181 | Hacker News Reader

> this video will likely be glad just instantly

Again.

Anyway, the video shows that we've unequivocally entered open-air brownshirt executions.

This person was pinned to the ground by three people while another was just wailing against their head from above. Hard to tell what object they're using as a cudgel to their face.

Then the subsequent mag dumping just to be extra sure they're dead.

We really need that lady in the back to release her video.

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For anyone wondering why this is relevant to HackerNews:

- There are tech companies and workers in companies outside California,

- A government deploying a militarized police force to execute people in the streets is bad for the economy,

- That government is the United States, and so this is bad for the world economy,

- A lot of the people in our industry are immigrants from outside the United States,

- If you're a HackerNews user in the United States, you can be shot and killed just like this.

Also, that this kind of state violence and collapse of democracy is underway in the country that also happens to be the center of the global tech industry is something that all HNers should care about.

- most of this has been helped by big tech. By algorithms polarizing people, rich people buying social media to further their agenda, etc

Another reason: individual liberty is and has been an important value in the tech community since the 1960s.

Has it? The original hacker movement surely had it, but is that still the tech community? I feel that since about 2012 the tech community has been money seekers — people who want to own the next AirBNB and Uber — and they don't care about individual liberty.

It's absolutely inexcusable, even moreso than the murder of Renee Good. Though I fully expect the usual suspects to show up and claim it was justified because he was resisting arrest, which seems to be the popular modus operandi for justifying execution by the state.

I think they're both inexcusable. Both are entire worlds that have been removed from the earth, because some insecure men were given guns and power by Trump

I don't know how you think this is worse than Renee Good's murder. She was shot in the temple through the driver side window while being directed by an Ice agent to drive away. She was then denied medical care at the scene, and local police were denied access to investigate while the shooter was shepherded out of state as quickly as possible

Well they tried to deny local police access here too, but the local police wasn't having it this time

"We haven't quite decided yet whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape."

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