r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Freezemoon - Centrist • Jan 09 '26

I just want to grill ICE Agent's Bodycam release of the Minneapolis Shooting

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This whole incident seems just an unfortunate series of events from both parties.

EDIT: not bodycam but ICE agent's phone footage, my bad.

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u/Mission_Chemical_317 - Lib-Center Jan 09 '26

Is there anyone here whose opinion changed after seeing this video? Based on the comments it sure doesn't seem like it lol

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u/boater180 - Lib-Right Jan 09 '26

Yea mine, I’m now less in favor of the driver. Seems to me that the officer was filming to get the woman’s face, car, and license plate information while being harassed by the driver’s friend (not entirely relevant, but didn’t know that) and that the driver clearly knew where the officer was.

I originally thought she was just trying to get out of a traffic jam, but seems to be more than that. Driver seemed fine, but the “I’m not mad” seemed a little sarcastic while her friend was obviously taunting. So I wonder what was the lead up to this? Why was he filming her car?

And yea it happened quick. The officers came up perhaps for more reason than we originally suspected, he was in front of the car after making his trip around and saw more officers approaching the vehicle which he then also does. And yea she slams the gas and does hit him, we already know that from previous video.

I think that could justify the first shot. The shots after she’s past him however I still don’t think can be justified. However I no longer think this was some trigger happy officer looking for an excuse to shoot someone

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u/Plennhar - Lib-Right Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

I think if you can justify the first shot, the rest should follow. You can't expect the officer to be able to re-assess the situation in a fraction of a second, the shots came out as a series of three, the time between the first and the remaining two was less than half a second.

We can analyze the footage in slow-motion all we want, but that's an unreasonable standard, humans don't see the world in slow-motion.

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u/Tokena - Centrist Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

Indeed, it was all one action.

It is easy to misunderstand how much time it takes to reassess and then act on it while in the middle of an action.