"flamethrower"

Is that what you call that little thing?

"My guess is that prior incident had a role in his state of mind with this incident."

I'm sure his attorneys will try to mount a PTSD defense, if this ever goes to trial.

There's not really any point in arguing with these people about what we can all see objectively happened. They're either trolling to win the ------ game, of if they actually believe what they're writing then their brains have become just as addled as those of you who gaslit everyone about what actually happened with Rittenhouse and others because you disagreed with their politics or perceived politics.

"The vehicle struck the officer."

I disagree, based on what I've seen.

"The officers state of mind is the only thing relevant."

As I said, he could possibly make a reasonable doubt defense for the first shot that went through the far-left (no pun intended) windshield, but not the other three shots through the driver side window.

Trumpers are going to rue the day when Hunter B and Conquistadora Cortez come after them with the same federal powers that are being abused now.

"Can local law enforcement arrest and charge an ICE agent?"

"You can't be against illegal immigration, but for keeping them in the country"

One can still be for deporting all illegal immigrants, but NOT in the ---- show way Trump and Noem have been doing it.

"But keep in mind, a protestor came at Kyle Rittenhouse with something a lot smaller - a skateboard - and a jury justified him shooting the aggressor."

There was never any dispute that the protester was assaulting Rittenhouse with the skateboard. The leftists on this site argued it was justified. The claim that Good was assaulting the agent with her car is definitely in dispute. You're just as wrong here as the leftists were with Rittenhouse, IMO.

"You can't be against illegal immigration, but for keeping them in the country"

One can still be for deporting all illegal immigrants, but in the ---- show way Trump and Noem have been doing it.

Those of you who have enough brain cells to remember my actual posting history know that I've been consistently against illegal immigration, and I still am, regardless of whether or not they're violent criminals. This stupid ---- show by Trump and Noem is actually hurting immigration enforcement in the long run.

It's also going to come back and bite the right wing (and the rest of us) in the ass when the type of powers they're abusing eventually fall into the hands of an extremists in the other party. I can actually see a Marxist coming to power in response to the excesses of this retardation.

Congratulations to the right wing trolls in this thread for being even bigger f*gs than the left wing trolls. You won the contest.

"I find it very sad that after shooting - he simply walks the other way.........really as if he was put out."

He did walk towards the car to check on the victim afterwards. Of course, she was already dead by that point. Then he walked back to his cruiser (license plate EVC289), as seen in the video. He probably knows he's ------.

"Oh so you are going to lie and say he didn't get struck by her FRONT bumper or shoot through her windshield ... ."

I've watched the video from multiple angles and I still can't see where the car made contact with him. It looks to me like he stepped/jumped back. The bullet hole in the windshield was in the lower left side. He could possibly make a reasonable defense for the first shot, but not for the other three shots when he was clearly to the side of the car. That was at least second-degree murder.

Does anyone have a link to the other angle that isn't on a dinky little instagram interface that can't be enlarged?

#12- you're wrong on this one. She was clearly driving away in the video.

I guess this is a bigger story than the muder in Minneapolis?

This isn't rocket science.

If someone is doing hard illicit drugs in public, which I actually saw one of the times I went back to my hometown, they should absolutely be arrested and prosecuted.

Even most of the Chavistas are happy that Maduro has been taken out of power. Except for the ones who are also Maduristas and aligned with Putin.

I think this is mostly just trolling to wind up Trump's opponents so that they're making knee jerk reactions that they can portray as "TDS".

"The SANCTIONS ON THAT REGIME DISPLACED 8 MILLION PEOPLE."

Factually untrue. Prior to Trump (the guy you voted for), the sanctions were very limited and targeted, but there were still millions of people displaced and hyperinflation. The sanctions didn't cause the regime's human rights violations, corruption or mismanagement. They were in response to them.

"Just Ending the Sanctions would have stopped the exodus from Venezuela."

What are you basing this on, other than wishful fairytale thinking and ignorance? Most of the analyses I've read suggest that there would have been at most about one million fewer refugees if there were no sanctions at all.

"Was all this for something other than the well being of The Venezuelan People?"

The primary reason is for regional stability and security, in response to the crisis fueled by the Putin/Xi-backed regime that displaced 8 million people. Regardless of what anyone says, everything else is a sidenote to that, even Trump's grifting.

Sheesh people. It hasn't even been 48 hours yet. Did you think that a new government would be magically put in place overnight, or that the existing one would just step down or submit without any face-saving measures?

"Does this make Machado legitimate?
Or Er, Gonzalez?"

Gonzalez is legitimately the democratically elected president of Venezuela, per the 2024 election.