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    “The biggest thing the family wants to get out right now is that he is not a gang member,” the attorney told The Modesto Bee. “He is a family man engaged to a U.S. citizen with a 2-year-old U.S. citizen daughter who was on his way to work in the Bay Area.”

    Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, a program manager for Valley Watch Network, which monitors ICE, said any statements from ICE should be viewed with skepticism given the agency’s history of issuing statements after shootings that are later found false. “We must question the accuracy of their statements,” Zaragoza-Yáñez told The Sacramento Bee. “We need an independent investigation and we need ICE out of our community.” Zaragoza-Yáñez also said that shooting was “another example that ICE puts our community in danger.”

    Read more at: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article315330157.html#storylink=cpy

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    “As officers approached the car, the wanted gang member weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over,” said Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, in a statement.

    “Following their training, our officers fired defensive shots to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and the public,” Lyons said. “The illegal alien was taken to a local hospital.”

    If they had actually been “following their training”, they wouldn’t have been standing anywhere near a potential impact zone. Using your own body to block a vehicle from fleeing the scene is not only fucking stupid, it’s literally the opposite of what officers are “trained” to do.

    This excuse is always bullshit.

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      Wanted Gang Member = someone out running errands

      Weaponized his vehicle = fled for his life

      Run an officer over = ICE goon standing in front of the car with his gun out

      Defensive shots = all officers emptied their entire mag and maybe a bullet or two hit

      Until I see bystander video footage this is how I’m going to interpret this statement.

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          Yeah I saw this on another post and it plays out almost the same as Renee except this person was actually stopped and not just trying to get out of the way like she was.

          If ICE wasn’t straight up murdering people or disappearing them to torture prisons then people wouldn’t feel the need to flee for their lives.

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        Yep, never forget the way ICE/DHS tried to spin the narratives around Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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      All 3 of them were clear of the car bh being off to the right, then the nazi who shot him intentionally ran in front of the car once he realized it was going forward.

      They just want to kill people, and they’ll make any excuses to do so.

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    It’s time to stop all this crazy shit. The 25th amendment needs to be enacted. I got a lot more to be normally worried about, and on top of that I also have to watch out for ice and cops between my work and my house. And on top of that I have to live with knowing that our shittident is about to commit Nazi level atrocities. And on top of that everything is more expensive and more radioactive. WTF! Are we lunatics??? Get him the fuck out!!! Now!