> And definitionally, it is only "murder" if a court finds it to be so through a correct application of the law
Man, do you "people" all get your talking points from the same septic tank or what? You don't get to tone police the use of the word murder by saying we must only ever use one narrow legal definition.
This whole situation has been debated to death, and I'm not going to respond to your shotgun blast of FUD line by line. Put simply, needlessly escalating situations so they're likely to result in death and mayhem is not the behavior we expect from real law enforcement officers - regardless of what their suspect may have done.
In a society based around individual liberty and limited government, why you would chose to empathize with government agents rather than your own fellow citizen is beyond me. But my only real question is how many more Americans need to be killed before you admit that maybe us critics have a point?
Unfortunately, they will never admit this, because either they believe every action by ICE is justified or they're straight up an agent of the government. It doesn't matter if you show them videos of ICE agents hitting protesters with their car and doing the exact thing they demonize [1], or if they walk up and assault people for using their first amendment rights [2], or if they spray people point blank with pepper spray [3] or if they ram people through red lights [4] or if they knee people in the face repeatedly when they're complying [5] or if they shove someone onto oncoming traffic and almost get them killed by a bus [6] or walking up to people and asking 'papers, please' [7]. They will conveniently disengage or shift the argument away.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/comments/1pjye82/ice_agen...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qb564f/minnea...
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qb88n3/ice_ag...
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qaw2e9/ice_in...
[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1q9p1dp/man_kn...
[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1q9xczh/ice_pu...