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> There is no good reason why they should have "simply left" To avoid escalating to the point of killing a woman who clearly had no respect for them and would have been more receptive to local police. Not killing a woman counts as a good reason in my book at least, it seems that others disagree. > That would have resulted in the SUV remaining in place, which would have been a general risk to safety In the other comme…
> To avoid escalating Again, this is not how law enforcement works. You do not back down from the scene of a crime in the hopes of apprehending someone privately later. That's patently absurd. > who clearly had no respect for them and would have been more receptive to local police The entire reason that ICE agents are on the scene is that local police cannot be trusted to enforce the applicable law . > In the other c…
This is in fact the whole idea behind no chase policies, to avoid needless harm. Ever watch a car chase through city streets on TV? Spoiler: they generally end one particular way. Meanwhile, pervasive cameras and databases practically guarantee that people can be calmly apprehended later.
> The left lane being available does not negate that traffic is being obstructed
lol, so your definition of obstruction is then any kind of traffic daring to be near ICE? Grandma driving 15 mph, obstruction. Those parked cars on the side of the road, obstruction. Cars stopped at red lights (local law to frustrate ICE), obstruction. Fellow motorists honking because they can't be bothered to follow their lane, obstruction.
In the real world, one lane being taken up by double parking is just regular city traffic. As I said, highly motivated reasoning.
Also, I had sent you the links to those other comment threads where I had made some more nuanced comments regarding the difference between enforcing immigration law versus this needless mayhem, so maybe you could see that we do have a little common ground - not so you could just dump more reactionary spam over there as well.