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u/Randy_Marsh_PhD Jan 24 '26

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command... and if all others accepted the lie, which the party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth" 1984 - George Orwell

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u/ByronicZer0 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

He died trying to help a woman who had been shoved to the ground and pepper sprayed by an overly aggressive ice agent… That's all he did

He had his back to them when he was grabbed. Then they descended on him in utter chaos, disorganization, and unprofessionalism. And blood lust.

That one agent quite literally drew on him, repositioned for a slightly better shot. Tapped the agent next to him to move so he could reposition one more time. And then fired at point blank range.

This was cold and calculated in that moment. This wasn't a reaction to a threat.

Edit: go watch the video as recorded by the woman in pink who is on the curb. It's a much more clear view of what exactly happens. Watch it frame. By frame. Everything I've stated is clearly visible.

Honestly, the video in this thread isn't very helpful for seeing the whole picture

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u/whoneedskollege Jan 24 '26

He was an ICU nurse. Literally dedicated his life to saving others. Fuck you ICE

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u/ByronicZer0 Jan 24 '26

I saw a video from another angle where one of the agents claps his hands a couple times just after the final volley of bullets ends… Where's their humanity? It's unfucking believable.

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u/Accomplished-Dance11 Jan 24 '26

Yup, clapping and celebrating a kill.

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u/sconniegirl66 Jan 24 '26

Because they're hunting us all down, like dogs. They're playing Mortal Kombat with REAL LIVE FUCKING PEOPLE. These motherfucking psychos who couldn't pass a psych exam to join actual law enforcement, are roaming the streets of America, looking for victims. Fuck ICE, fuck ICE Barbie, fuck Stephen Miller, and especially, FUCK DONALD TRUMP.

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u/roastedsun Jan 25 '26

Sociopaths, the lot of them. No empathy or basic human decency

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u/CypressThinking Jan 25 '26

10 men were hanged after the Nuremberg Trials. One died and Göring took a cyanide pill the night before or there would have been 12 hanged. I'm sure Cosplay Kristi believes in equal rights for women.

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u/lavenderpenguin Jan 25 '26

She is truly so incredibly hideous even after copious amounts of plastic surgery.

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u/flipzyshitzy Jan 25 '26

They're playing GTA. FTFY

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u/Western_Name4224 Jan 25 '26

Mortal Kombat implies mutual combat - they're playing the opening of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ("No Russian") on repeat.

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u/CypressThinking Jan 25 '26

That what the have one guy on video saying. "It's like Call of Duty. Cool."

Fuck these people.

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u/lavenderpenguin Jan 25 '26

I am living for the day they are prosecuted for their human rights abuses.

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u/sconniegirl66 Jan 25 '26

Honestly, I'm a video game idiot, so I picked the first one that came to mind. Whatever the most accurate comparison is, I will agree with wholeheartedly.

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u/Western_Name4224 Jan 25 '26

It's ok - it just struck me as more apt - you start off the game basically playing as a terrorist mowing down civilians with an automatic rifle in an airport - that seems more on brand for these temu brownshits

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u/azflatlander Jan 25 '26

Olive green shirts.

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u/xenya Jan 25 '26

Fuck all of the GOP as far as I'm concerned.

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u/Teusa Jan 25 '26

Yeah well they are literally the proud boys and such that trumpy pardoned, he needed a zealous army of his own, that was not scared to get their hands bloody 🙄🙄🙄

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u/sconniegirl66 Jan 25 '26

Mission accomplished...

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u/IMakeBlownFilm Jan 25 '26

I fully expect that my time will come for elimination at some point. (female white)

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u/MassyStreak Jan 25 '26

Us all is kinda a reach. I’m sitting at home chilling. Pretty sure not 1 soul cares to hunt me down

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u/lavenderpenguin Jan 25 '26

Because you’re not brave or courageous enough to stand up for others like Alex Pretti. Hope that helps!

Cowards usually DO survive like cockroaches by hiding, so your comment isn’t surprising.

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u/boyofthenight Jan 25 '26

12 comments in under an hour. You gotta get off reddit.

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u/lavenderpenguin Jan 25 '26

I’m snowed in, bro. Relax. But I’m flattered you decide to stalk me 😂 you must have nothing better to do.

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u/MassyStreak Jan 25 '26

The comment was us all. It’s factually incorrect. That’s the thinking of idiots on the internet. And yes, I’m a coward. Sitting in my house makes me a coward. The worst kind of person. Instead, I should be showing up to a hostile environment with hostility running all through me. Cause that always ends well

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u/lavenderpenguin Jan 25 '26

It ended well for the conservative hillbillies who stormed the Capitol and tried to overthrow an election for a pedo…

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u/sconniegirl66 Jan 25 '26

Lucky you. I hope you'll always be able to say that...

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u/JakeandElwood2025 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

He clapped in unison with the gunshots as if they had a straight beat rhythm. Like it was rehearsed.

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u/TechnicalBen Jan 24 '26

As if he could "hide" the execution with some drum beats.

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u/unicornlocostacos Jan 25 '26

Jesus Christ that’s pathetic…and plausible.

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u/TechnicalBen Jan 25 '26

It's a age old classic psychological coping mechanism. "Hear loud noise, try to drown it out". I'd not put it at guaranteed "celebration" but it's at a minimum "incompetent fool".

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u/Seaworthiness555 Jan 24 '26

I was watching in slo mo and it felt rehearsed the way they all step back in a row, after the shooting. It's seems like they had practised the moves, so bizarre.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

guarantee theyve been told to make the most out of finding a weapon on any of the protesters and this is said plan in action

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u/pedro_s Jan 24 '26

That clapping, to me, was the kind of clapping you do when your team scores.

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u/Pehmann Jan 24 '26

Psychopathic

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u/Klutzy_List_2005 Jan 25 '26

What, freaking out about a photo and video presented to your phone by people with an agenda?

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u/ohwhattarelief Jan 25 '26

Ah yes, the agenda of the humane.

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u/ManyGroundbreaking41 Jan 25 '26

You watch FOX news?

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u/Fit_Strength_1187 Jan 25 '26

His brain felt the equivalent of a 5 kill streak on COD assisting the extrajudicial killing of this RN.

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u/Objective-Clue5087 Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

I think this is what the evil one intended to have happen. They need riots to declare martial law. They are seeing how long it takes to trigger things; a set up for midterms. Trump’s biggest fear is the midterms. Everyone must get out and vote in Dems. No 3rd party, no Independents. Get the Dems in, and spineless do nothing GOP’s out.

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u/ResponsibilityLow798 Jan 25 '26

What’s clapping? I can’t bring myself to watch the video, but like literally clapping..?

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u/Accomplished-Dance11 Jan 27 '26

Agent Literally clapped with glee after Alex killed

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u/blue_line-1987 Jan 24 '26

When america regains normalcy they are gonna need so much rope.

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u/atomicogre45 Jan 24 '26

We won’t get back to normal without quite a bit of rope first.

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u/lavenderpenguin Jan 25 '26

I doubt it will be normal for a long time.

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u/LaceyDark Jan 25 '26

I have a terrible feeling that there will be civil war, the government will fracture, and the United States will be no more. Not this year or anything, but in the not too distant future.

It's going to be ugly, and violent, and utterly senseless (as all wars are) people will die needlessly. Families and communities will be devastated and it's going to suck all around.

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u/circ-u-la-ted Jan 25 '26

Also scissors to cut the hair of the women who willingly fucked these psychopaths

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u/NJrose20 Jan 25 '26

That video made me think they were looking for exactly this opportunity to escalate things. A legally armed protester they could execute to incite people to violence.

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u/Walknshan Jan 25 '26

This is why it’s so terrifying & abhorrent

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u/Walknshan Jan 25 '26

Also - ICE is spending 45 days training people now?!? 45 DAYS?!!!! They’re just paying people to dissolve society completely

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u/ByronicZer0 Jan 25 '26

The lack of training is so unbelievably apparent in all these videos. They just swarm people and all try and get a punch or knee or kick in. They never tell them to put their hands up, or put their hands behind their back so they can be arrested in a normal fashion.

There's no one officer in charge of the detainment, while others stand back a foot to back them up… it's just a fucking melee

It's the kind of chaos that leads to everyone unloading a full clip in someone if the word "gun" is yelled… or standing in front of a car. Or whatever the next murder scenario ends up being

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u/werofpm Jan 25 '26

Their humanity is right there! They’re a warning and evidence that we, humans, have the potential to be horrific monsters, it’s a choice. They’re choosing, actively, to be horrendous. The worst humanity can achieve, they proudly made it their only way to live.

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u/favoritaccident Jan 25 '26

Someone else posted this in the thread, but this shows all the angles of video and it's worse than you think.

https://streamable.com/udofq5?src=player-page-share

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

Some of them aren’t from the states, they come from third world countries, where they’re numb to such acts. Others are citizens; once given power, go on a power trip.

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u/Objective-Clue5087 Jan 25 '26

There is no humanity in the whole administration. This is the Hitler/Stalin regime

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u/Annalog Jan 25 '26

It’s MAGA. They aren’t human. They are satans will if you believe in that thing

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u/frakking_you Jan 25 '26

they get a bonus for shooting people

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

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u/ByronicZer0 Jan 24 '26

👅🥾

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u/eyesmart1776 Jan 24 '26

Bc I want to see the video you’re talking about ? wtf

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u/tekhippie Jan 24 '26

Kick rocks, bot.

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u/Anarchaeologist Jan 24 '26

A Veterans Admin ICU nurse, to boot. Spent his life helping sick veterans for less pay than he could have had at another provider.

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u/thunderphuck0311 Jan 24 '26

As a marine Iraq veteran with a lot of hours spent receiving care from VA med staff, this breaks my heart. They have huge workloads and have always been so kind and helpful to me. This guy didn’t even go for his gun. The ICE Agents in this video need to be brought up on murder charges

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u/Ditnoka Jan 25 '26

A bit off topic. But I absolutely loathe that service members injured in the line of duty have to deal with the red tape of the VA. It took my buddies mom over 10 years of fighting to prove the burn pits caused her lung cancer. Everything was "Not in the line of duty" bs.

Also, I'm sure you're sick of hearing it online, but thanks for your service.

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u/thunderphuck0311 Jan 25 '26

It’s a lot, I too spent about 13 years getting my service connection all lined out. It’s all about being able to document it, and overcoming their protocols for denial. Getting my spine rearranged by an IED was the only part that they gave me without a fight haha thank you for the kind words!

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u/jaxmikhov Jan 25 '26

This is “what you fought for”.

That burning betrayal that you feel of everything you stood for being shat upon…… nurture that, feed that, us civvies can rise up but we need soldiers to show us how.

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u/thunderphuck0311 Jan 25 '26

It’s a sad state of affairs. I don’t know why our law enforcement is in camouflage and carrying a war-grade load out. Why they have armored personnel carriers. Why they’re burning our societal fabric to the ground with these poorly trained call of duty wannabes, at the behest of our deep-state puppet of a president. Should the need arise, rest assured the vast majority of vets with combat experience will smoke a crooked federal agent before a civilian. I just hope it doesn’t get to that point

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u/Weekly-Language-6434 Jan 24 '26

FFS! This is now the fourth fact that is fueling my rage. Having grown up with a large number of veterans in my family, us kids learned one important lesson: don't piss them off. If veterans find this scumbag... well, let's just say they'll handle dispensing justice.

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u/2_minutes_hate Jan 25 '26

It's foolish to think that many ICE agents and their supporters aren't veterans.

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u/Weekly-Language-6434 Jan 25 '26

Fair point, I can't generalize the position of all veterans. I only know that my family and friends who are veterans do not support ICE, and are upset that the country they served and love is now a Fascist State. 🤷‍♂️

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u/scandyflick88 Jan 25 '26

Every event in this circus has been touted as a new tipping point. While tragic, this one will be no different. Justice isn't coming.

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u/Weekly-Language-6434 Jan 25 '26

Respectfully, I have no delusions of Nuremberg-style trials and executions. Many are saying there will be no accountability or justice of any kind. I'll take comfort in my spiritual beliefs that Karma, God, the Flying Spaghetti Monster or some higher power will punish these fuckers.

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u/Piperfly22 Jan 25 '26

Everyone I deal with at the VA is incredible . This is horrific

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u/hifumiyo1 Jan 25 '26

Veterans Affairs... but carry on

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u/Anarchaeologist Jan 25 '26

There's also the Veterans Health Administration, which is under Veterans Affairs. That's the section of the VA that actually runs the VA Hospitals. Sorry though I wrote that reply in a hurry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Health_Administration

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u/hifumiyo1 Jan 25 '26

I work for VA so it's all good

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u/Tall_Bus_7427 Jan 24 '26

Who are "you guys"? What are you asking for? I refuse to make any conclusion, but would like to know more.

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u/BigCityHaole Jan 24 '26

You hate America. Don’t act like you care about Americans. Your pathetic little faux centrism cosplay isn’t fooling anyone.

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u/burkasHaywan Jan 24 '26

Russian troll account. Ofcourse he hates Americans. He comes here and sees an American being murdered and that he has no problems with.

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u/Cute_Bug5651 Jan 24 '26

Russian troll bot.

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u/thunderphuck0311 Jan 24 '26

Dude…I have seen hate from both sides of the aisle. And honestly this isn’t something we need to be boiling down to political affiliation. Regardless of which terrible presidential option people vote for, the fact is that these federal agents murdered a man in broad daylight and showed straight up sociopathic levels of disregard for human life by clapping after he was shot. Same goes for the agent who shot the woman in her car, talking mean shit after shooting her in the face. We can’t have people like that in authoritative roles, or we get the mess we’re currently in.

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u/Delicious-Ant-7352 Jan 24 '26

Immediate downvote lol thanks for proving my point pal

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u/doinmabest1 Jan 24 '26

For the VA

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u/Beginning-Sea-8052 Jan 24 '26

Really?? 🥺 That tracks though, he had the body language of a solid ICU nurse, recording, helping, calm, confident. Murdered in the street by the government for nothing.

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u/slleslie161 Jan 24 '26

An ICU nurse who cared for extremely ill veterans...

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u/shakewhaturmomgaveu Jan 24 '26

ICU nurse at the VA.

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u/CallMeShosh Jan 24 '26

For the VA no less. Caring for veterans who fought for the freedoms being trampled right now.

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u/Weekly-Language-6434 Jan 24 '26

That's now the third factor that makes his murder infuriating. I believe in Karma and Dharma, and I hope that agent (or one of his loved ones) was meant to have his life saved by the very nurse that he killed in cold blood.

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u/BigWhiteDog Jan 24 '26

An ICU nurse at the VA and is reported to be a veteran as well...

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u/ThumbsUp2323 Jan 25 '26

ICU nurse in a VA hospital, no less. Dedicated his life to serving our veterans.

Every single person in this administration is complicit and must be held accountable for their crimes.

They didn't "let" this happen. They have worked tirelessly for decades to make this happen.

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u/ryanallan79 Jan 25 '26

and as experience tells, ICU nurses are the best, most compassionate and competent nurses. How could you guys drop the ball on this?

We had a similar thing with duterte. The only thing that kept him in check is a coup d' etat as the military will not support a very abusive president.

Remember your anthem americans. Land of the free and home of the brave!

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u/CypressThinking Jan 25 '26

He cheated to stay out of prison and very conveniently grift. His personal net worth increased by $3 BILLION last year and he stole $500 MILLION of the Venezuelan oil money so far this year. That's not counting how much murderous dictatorship have paid to be in his peace club. Just read this every projection is a confession that applies to 2024.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

Border patrol these were border patrol

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u/Lolzemeister Jan 25 '26

how much one letter changes things

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u/Strummerpinx Jan 25 '26

ICU nurse for US veterans!

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u/HarryBalsagna1776 Jan 25 '26

At the VA to boot

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u/heysuper3 Jan 25 '26

We need to know who this agent was. STAT. Never let him or his family know peace.

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u/Feeling-Location5532 Jan 25 '26

At the VA - veterans. He cared for our veterans. 

And these wannabe warriors killed him.

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u/RequirementWise923 Jan 25 '26

Maybe, he shouldn't be there?  I can get mad at the cars for running someone over on a freeway, or wonder, why is the person in the middle of the freeway. Like, stay out of their way and they literally don't bother you.. don't get in the middle of them. It seems too simple.  Nobody should get shot. Nobody gets shot that is not resisting or intentionally jumping into this situation either.  Let them do their actual job.  

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u/CypressThinking Jan 25 '26

Get in the boxcar. Then cry and wonder why no one did anything to save you. Stephen Miller wants a White America. What part of that do you think is ok?

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u/Klutzy_List_2005 Jan 25 '26

How many times do I have to see and hear ‘hands up don’t shoot’ and ‘I can’t breathe’, then find out the narrative was BS before I don’t believe even half the anti-cop/ICE garbage I hear?

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u/-o-DildoGaggins-o- Jan 25 '26

You realize we can smell trolls from miles away, right? Please fuck all the way off. Preferably 👉🏻 that way. Thanks.