• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

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

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      1 day ago

      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.

        • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          22 hours 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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          1 day 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.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      nope. execution is appropriate. it’s approved by the government.

      edit: murder is also appropriate, to be clear