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So the dude literally disarms himself by throwing a sheathed weapon at the cops and they shoot him 3 times because they were afraid he might also have a gun somewhere?
Edit: Saw the footage, this is exactly what happened.
Dude had called earlier in the day to report illegal immigrants. When the cops showed up he thought they were there for his call, but apparently "they were responding to shots fired". He throws the machete at the cops to disarm himself. They tell him to put his hand in the air, which he does, but has a phone in his hand. 3 bullets.
38 times, not 3. Also, there was no “machete”, it was a cellphone. And even after all that, one of them was still yelling at him to put his hands up or he’d shoot again, while the guy was facedown and dead on his own front lawn…
“After the shooting, a Border Patrol agent could be heard threatening to shoot Mattia again if he didn’t put his hands out as the agent approached him lying motionless face down on the ground.
"Put your hands out, bro. You’re gonna get shot again," an agent yelled at Mattia in the video as he was approaching him. Mattia’s cell phone and case could be seen lying next to him in the video.”
They genuinely don't understand that people die when they're shot.
Trained in call of duty expecting him to respawn
What you see in the video being thrown at the very beginning definitely looks more like a sheathed machete than a phone. The phone is what he had in his hands after throwing the machete.
It's a fucking hunting knife, saying "lobbed a machete" gives such a false impression.
I mean, not to victim blame, but throwing a weapon (or anything) in the direction of violent murderous thugs who are afraid of everything is generally a bad idea.