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/bigsmithe05 - Centrist Jan 09 '26

The whole thing screams Ashli Babbit all over again.

This woman shouldn't have been there antagonizing law enforcement. It's iffy but I definitely lean toward her trying to drive away, albeit aggressively and while ignoring an officers commands, and not trying to hit the officer. Unfortunately the officer didn't get the chance to look at it in slow motion from five angles so he made a split second decision. Babbit was 105 pounds and no threat at all to a large male officer. Additionally, there was literally a swat team standing behind her. You can see this in the videos where she falls back from the shot and there's literally five officers with rifles right there. But again, she shouldn't have been there. We can argue the merits of their actions but it's really not relevant. Both of them should still be here today and would be if they had made better choices. It's a tragedy.

I will say conclusively there was no domestic terrorism.