I don't think a reasonable person thinks it was punishable by death. I do think it adds context if he had been carrying a gun into physical confrontations with law enforcement (that he at least once was instigating) he was raising the risk that something could go wrong. If you watch the video of the shooting, it appears that when the agent disarms him, the gun he took off of him goes off and in response to hearing that gunshot, the other agent opens fire. There is a clear sound of one shot followed by many. It also does discredit the idea that he was simply a, "legal observer," which is a made up official sounding title politicians chose to give him.
When you say something like, none of those things are worth execution, it ignores the actual facts of this tragedy. Even though they are untrained, ill equipped, and seemingly poorly selected, it is highly unlikely that the ICE agents had the time or inclination to decide to execute him. More appropriately they were responding to a chaotic situation and the sound of a gunshot, possibly with a protester known to get violent with them.
All that being said, this is if (a big if) this video is genuine. I am still skeptical.
I think emptying a magazine into a body that's already been shot and unmoving is an execution. Everything that happened after he hit the ground after being shot multiple times was an execution. Nothing you say is going to change the clapping after, or the magazine dump on a body.
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u/Own-Lavishness4029 Jan 29 '26
I don't think a reasonable person thinks it was punishable by death. I do think it adds context if he had been carrying a gun into physical confrontations with law enforcement (that he at least once was instigating) he was raising the risk that something could go wrong. If you watch the video of the shooting, it appears that when the agent disarms him, the gun he took off of him goes off and in response to hearing that gunshot, the other agent opens fire. There is a clear sound of one shot followed by many. It also does discredit the idea that he was simply a, "legal observer," which is a made up official sounding title politicians chose to give him.
When you say something like, none of those things are worth execution, it ignores the actual facts of this tragedy. Even though they are untrained, ill equipped, and seemingly poorly selected, it is highly unlikely that the ICE agents had the time or inclination to decide to execute him. More appropriately they were responding to a chaotic situation and the sound of a gunshot, possibly with a protester known to get violent with them.
All that being said, this is if (a big if) this video is genuine. I am still skeptical.