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  • Pretti’s pistol is a Sig P230

    Which has (allegedly) issues with what appears to be called “uncommanded” discharge

    That is, a discharge when being handled otherwise normally, and therefore neither accidental nor negligent.

    It is possible, though I would see this as NO EXCUSE, that Pretti’s gun discharged and the ice agent fired (wrongly) in reaction to that noise.

    Some close analysis of the frame-by-frame appear to clearly show the slide pushed back, while in the same frame seeming to show gray jacket with four fingers around the grip and none inside the trigger guard.

    HOWEVER I am not a video expert

    This (and every killing which involved an ice/cbp operation) deserved to be thoroughly and impartially investigated



  • Scirocco@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldVanilla Ice
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    24 days ago

    Nah, typical 2A “enthusiasts” care a lot more about whether that person was carrying a firearm legally, under whatever applicable laws. In some states, that is no law at all. In MN, it’s a permit.

    Granted, a lot of Republican gun owners would make a racially biased assumption that a Somali migrant is less likely to have a proper permit, and those same folks have a lot more benefit-of-doubt for fellow white males.

    But, in my lived experience as a strongly left-leaning person embedded quite deeply in US gun culture, all of those folks would see themselves in the shoes of any man, of any race, in Pretti’s situation.

    You might not think that’s any better than a racial bias, because it’s an in-group bias.


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    24 days ago

    The trick to getting people to be outraged about your murder hasn’t much to do with being black or white or brown

    It’s mostly about the murder being on-camera, from multiple angles, filmed by people and released to public scrutiny immediately

    As well as it being very extremely clear that it was an unnecessary killing, a deliberate murder.

    So, if you’re gonna get killed next week, please make sure there are plenty of witnesses with cameras all around you.