ICE Just Shot A Woman In The Head

Hi,

I'm writing this from the airport in Auckland, New Zealand – heading to Melbourne, before aiming to return to Los Angeles later this month.

Watching the United States from the outside has been – alarming. It is strange what perspective distance gives you. How looking in from the outside is somehow even more horrific than how it feels when you're there. I've already noted that since I left Donald Trump illegally kidnapped the leader of Venezuela so he could go after their oil, and how Elon Musk championed the creation of AI porn of children.

And today, we have an ICE agent publicly executing an innocent woman in broad daylight in Minneapolis – unloading his handgun into the woman's head as she attempted to drive away. I watched the footage, I wish I hadn't.

“They killed my wife [...] They shot her in the head," a voice is heard saying.

That is alarming. It's beyond alarming. It's horrific, terrifying, inexcusable, and utterly maddening.

So is the way the Trump administration is attempting to rewrite what happened today – in exactly the same fashion they're using to rewrite the January 6 insurrection. By lying.

All lies, of course (there is video of the reality, I don't recommend watching it, but – receipts) – lies told in broad daylight, just like the shots fired by the ICE agent who executed a fleeing woman.

The Department of Homeland Security's followed the same propaganda, spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin saying:

"ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them-an act of domestic terrorism.

An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.

He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.
The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased."

What an utter insult to a human life. What an insult to the people attempting to live peacefully in the United States while Trump's armed thugs go around offering headshots like a fucking Call of Duty game.

There is pushback. The mayor of the city, Jacob Frey, told ICE to "Get the fuck out of Minneapolis." F-Bombs are being deployed everywhere – because what else are law abiding leaders and citizens meant to do? Shoot back? Start killing, too?

Daniel Suitor, a lawyer in Minneapolis, had a short reply when CBS news asked to use footage of the murder. "Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda", he said on social media, sharing his even shorter response to CBS news.

(As previously reported on Webworm, Bari Weiss is CBS News' editor-in-chief, who pulled the 60 Minutes story about El Salvador’s Cecot prison, in order to placate Donald Trump).

The shooting is alarming. The attempted rewriting of what happened is possibly even more alarming. Instead of being under arrest, the murderer is walking around with Trump and the Department of Homeland Security actively and loudly covering for his actions.

I keep thinking of something Nicholas Grossman, who teaches at the University of Illinois, said earlier today:

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals."

Leaders have always lied to us – but never this confidently. Ever since the pandemic – ever since I started writing Webworm in the conspiracy fueled aftermath – I've been trying to point out how truth no longer exists. That leaders can lie to our face and get away with it, bending reality to their will. And that plenty of people will just believe it.

This the result, and these types of results – in bodycount form – are just going to keep coming.

David.

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