Taleya comments on Slowed and Stabalized video of Minneapolis ICE Execution

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Don't you give this the dignity of calling it an execution. It was a fucking murder

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip [S] 39 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Execution is worse in my opinion. A murder means the ICE agent acted against protocol and murdered a man. An execution implies this is a state sanctioned act of violence.

Which is what it was. The goverment has empowered its agents to come into our cities and execute us.

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[–] TRock@feddit.dk 3 points 9 months ago

Wholly agree

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago*

nope. execution is appropriate. it's approved by the government.

edit: murder is also appropriate, to be clear

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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The dignity?

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Execution intimates order of law.

This was a murder.

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip [S] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

While it may be illegal under the letter of the law the government has acted to justify and normalize this action as a perfectly legal action.

Unless the government changes their statements we have to accept that DHS personal are allowed to kill Americans with total impunity. Those are executions.

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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 9 months ago

I don't think that lawful execution of perfectly normal people intimates dignity.

I'm fine with calling it both, by the way. It was a murder committed by an ICE officer, and it was an execution committed by the state, whom the officer represents. The state is executing people.

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