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They're using the South Park, "They were coming right for us" defense. This is supposed to be a joke, not an actual defense.

https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/9b5egn/south-park-it-s-coming-right-for-us

They'll claim self defense like Shittenhouse but few people realize rule 1 of self defense. Don't put yourself in harm's way.

Even if he was in harm's way, he put himself there.

The full video shows her try to wave them past while she's trying to pull out into the lane and then they get out of their unmarked vehicle, with guns and masks, and one immediately approaches her vehicle and reaches inside to unlock and open the door.

That's a carjacking or a kidnapping and anyone in their right mind would try to pull away.

Google "radical flank effect"

Edit: to clarify this is in support of ops comment. What they're talking about is called the radical flank effect.

To an extent, yes, but it has gotten much worse recently.

Fascism is colonialism turned inward.

There's an undeniable racial component, yeah, but there's also the very real fact that those suffering past abuses were broadly in a different category from the majority of ordinary (white and white passing) American citizens, creating the illusion that they themselves were safe, or could choose to be safe by keeping their heads down.

As soon as the victim is in a position that you yourself could easily find yourself in (like dropping your kid off at school in a residential area), and you can imagine that you might make the same choices (like trying to leave a dangerous situation safely), your own safety is under direct threat.

A lot of people were sad, angry and outraged before, but now they're scared.

Blame the media for their conservative/racist leanings. I hadn't heard much if anything about other similar cases until this happened. And I sure hadn't seen a video of those incidents.

The outcry is still limited because the woman shot appears to be in a gay relationship (a lady declaring herself as her wife was on scene at the murder).

So most conservatives are still unable to empathize nor see this as 'one of their clan' at risk, even though it was a white person.

It'll take a MAGA-hat-wearing white guy being shot by ICE before they start to worry about the new SS.

The problem is that's when he "gets" to declare Marshall Law and take over the government and the military.

So far, judges have denied him access to military even though he keeps screaming about terrorists and buildings burning, when really there are people in frog costumes and people with whistles.

Hitler took control of German government and military the second a building caught fire. This is likely what he's trying to make happen.

Elections happen this year that could generate some congressional power challenges against his orders with more urgency. How much hope do I have that elections even happen? Will several red states change last minute election rules and post office cancel ballot deliveries or straight up replace federal electors again? Will he make up a fake excuse to end elections or arrest opponents? Who knows. Once he steals power instead of having it with legitimacy is when gloves have to come off. In the meantime it has to stay peaceful. We dug this hole ourselves at this point.

Yeah.... That's entirely fucked.

Guy wearing tac gear with a police branding on him, no badge in sight and covering their face like a common thug. Shoots unarmed woman in vehicle while she was trying to exit the situation in any way possible.

The only part of this that I'm thankful for is that her death was probably quick and relatively painless. Everything else about this screams hostile takeover.

I mean, that's not new, we've been seeing similar bullshit forever, brought to the spotlight previously by the BLM movement. They're just not discriminating against only POC. Now it's anyone who isn't them.

All Lives Matter is a perfectly fine position to have, just like thinking that all genders should be treated equally.

The problem is when you try to use that position to say that people aren't allowed to focus on systemic violence against a specific demographic.