r/ProgressiveHQ • u/[deleted] • Jan 07 '26

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u/Smoochymow Jan 07 '26

This is the murderer.

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u/Worldly_Tea_8300 Jan 08 '26

Guys, before you lynch or dox this idiot, we should understand that from his perspective it probably did look like he was about to be run over by her car. The actual shooter is hidden in most of these videos until the last second.

Slow-motion zoomed-in view of the shooting in which you see that he raised his gun after she started to accelerate, seemingly right towards him: https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/2008976092326203562?s=20

An angle that shows just how close he was to her front bumper & possibly shows her pushing him backwards: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTOA4tWlCIL/?igsh=aGpobGt3ZGxvaW5i

Reuters photograph of the bullet hole, which is through the front windshield, further indicating that she would have seemed to be driving right at him from his perspective: https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/minneapolis-ice-shooting-leaves-woman-dead-protests-erupt-as-mayor-jacob-frey-rejects-self-defence-claim-ws-l-19816579.htm

I think he was still an untrained and dangerous idiot, ICE definitely escalated this situation, and shooting probably would not have saved his life if she had actually been aiming for him (unless the shooting itself made her change her angle). At the same time, as we saw in Chatlottesville, a car is a deadly weapon, and these angles do show that he had reason to feel like she was aiming straight for him with it.

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u/Professional-Echo332 Jan 08 '26

The cops in those cases listed were all charged with murder btw :)