The shooting took place late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which was hosting an American Jewish Committee event at the time of the incident.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deaths in an X post, saying, “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”
The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois, “chanted 'Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody,” she added.
He is by definition a civilian that was murdered. Legal definitions do not care about our political opinions. It appears to be very likely he was a civilian who deserved to be murdered but that does not change the definition
Last I checked, the western world had made it very clear that international law does not consider killing civilians murder.
excellent point, killing innocent civilians is very wrong. As is starving them and abusing them for 80 years. All those things, just plain wrong, no matter the reasoning.
civilian /sĭ-vĭl′yən/
noun
This is not the legal definition of civilian.
International law is a myth that imperialsists use to murder indigenous resistance fighters, it’s not a real legal regime that actually applies universally.
There is no legal definition because there is no law, I think that’s pretty clear at this point.
It is according to DuckDuckGo
But the definition changes based on who you ask. What is more relevant is whether they are part of a beligirent force akin to ISIS but worse.
This is a dictionary definition. Non-combatant ISIS members are also civilians. Whether they deserve to die or not has no legal bearing. Im unsure why that is considered controversial.
Because this is a “rule” which is never applied to any signature to the Geneva Convention. It is solely brought up to virtue signal in favor of the empire.
These days Israel is publicly bombing Hamas government officials for the crime of being in their finance ministry and nobody bats an eye. They are bombing journalists inside of hospitals for doing journalism and it is a-ok.
This is what my username is a reference to.