• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Let’s say he really had the gun.

    They’re beating on him, his arms are flailing, he has a gun hosltered somewhere and maybe they suddenly see it, or his arm flails towards it from the beating.

    Idiot cop uses that as an excuse to murder them.

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah just put it on the list of all the other rights they’re actively violating every day

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        19 hours ago

        Supposedly, yes. Having a pistol on you is considered legal in most places, including Minneapolis, as long as you have a permit (ICE couldn’t have possibly known whether or not he did, it would’ve been reasonable for them to assume that he did, and was simply exercising his rights). They’re going to make the excuse that he “reached for it”. If he didn’t have his hand on the fucking gun, that logic doesn’t stand. This is bullshit, they executed a man in cold blood because they felt like it. They’re monsters, and I hope they get some kind of punishment, legal (that’s not happening) or otherwise.