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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.

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".

Huh? Did you watch the video? Not only do you hear his car revving, but you see the law enforcement vehicle repeatedly shift backwards as he rams it.

At 0:45 you see and hear him hit the vehicle, rev and the crunch of him accelerating against it.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-28/federal-...

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".

What do you attribute to all the smoke? The car is boxed in but it does appear that the car reversed into the car behind and the smoke is from the tires spinning. What do you think should be done in this situation? The car does seem to be boxed in well but the car could potentially get out.

There's video, lol.

That's why it's mind boggling that you are insisting something so dubious is obvious. The certainty with which you believe this conclusion speaks more to your personal biases than what can be objectively observed in the video.

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.”

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?

A vehicle is a deadly weapon. Would you personally accelerate against a police vehicle with active lights that is conducting a traffic stop on you?

Accelerating towards law enforcement is a deadly threat.

If he's willing to threaten them with a deadly weapon, what else is he willing to do?

Well, law enforcement were the first ones to escalate to unbelievable levels of force here.

They executed a dangerous manouver, pointed guns at him, broke his window and shot at him. Yes, the person paniced, but I’m not surprised.

To law enforcement, this seems like a regular thing they do. They should be in control of the situation and be ready to use the appropriate amount of force for the situation. If they escalate things out of the gate like this, I do not think they should then also be allowed to just start shooting under the pretense of being in danger. That’s a risk they knowingly took by taking the actions they took.

You’re saying law enforcement can shoot anyone in the US, as long as they architect situations with the highest level of danger.

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

You can see it moving, hear it revving, and watch the huge clouds of tire smoke.

The social contract says you have to follow the laws our representatives write and our police enforce. A good citizen fights the cops in court, with laws. A criminal flaunts the law and uses a car to try to evade apprehension.

What happens when the courts stop enforcing the law in accordance with the constitution and established ethics?

Lol, what happens at 0:45 exactly? He's accelerating against the bumper which crunches and you can see the law enforcement vehicle lurch backwards.

FAFO.

Doesn't look like anything to me. FAFO flies both ways.

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