JohnCushman
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My doctor says my eyesight is perfect, so I can only conclude you folks are watching a different video than me. The video I saw shows a person surrendering being shot anyways.
We don't do that to the enemy in combat.
If these FBI agents were marines, and funicum was taliban, and this were in Kandahar, these marines would be court marshaled, and serve lengthy sentences in Leavenworth.
I have no sympathy for the land grab movement, none, but I'm not all about federal officers being judge, jury and executioner, on an American citizen.
Maybe you saw a different video than I, maybe you are just trying to rationalize this being acceptable because you oppose his cause. To be honest, it kind of makes me smile too, but in the big picture, I know there's no justice in shooting a surrendering man, no matter who he is.
Are you so sure about that? Have you served over there? I know my SOP in the Army told me something different when I was in Iraq. When he sped away from the traffic stop he put his life in danger and would have had a couple of HUMVEEs waiting a few hundred meters down the road putting M2 rounds into his engine block, or his windshield if he still didn't stop. If he stopped and got out, he should have immediately dropped to the ground and spread his arms and legs, face down. When he ran towards the police reaching towards a pocket, that was a hostile action and would have gotten him killed in Iraq...with no court martial or lengthy stay in Leavenworth. They would probably get medals for it. He could have been reaching for a trigger on a suicide vest, and by not stopping for the traffic stop could have been a VBIED. So, if you haven't been there and don't know how things operate, then by all means, don't try to lecture us on how things would work...a'ight?
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