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“These unprecedented tactics – which even the former top lawyer of the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration has characterized as embarrassing, lawless and cruel – have now resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens,” the Obamas said.
The Obamas accused the Trump administration of “escalating” the tension in Minneapolis by offering the public explanations of the shootings of Pretti and Renee Good “that aren’t informed by any serious investigation – and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence.”
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“They should have used drones instead”
They called it a “tragedy” too.
Its not a “tragedy”, its a massive crime and a coverup.Start shooting ice agents
One of ours. All of theirs.
There’s a lot fewer ICE agents than there are American workers. They’re just starting with the dayworkers, cleaners, and nurses because its more palatable for the white right-wing. Next, they’ll come for other groups of dark Americans.
This always was and always will be a class war. No war but the class war.
Philando Castile should have been the wake up call.
Deporter in Chief can fuck off, acting like he wasn’t normalizing ICE under his administration
C’mon, it’s not like his administration killed a US citizen or anything /s
Please come back to the Senate, Obama
Phone’s been ringing off the hook since 2016
asshole’s been asleep
We are literally on the last stanza of First The Came, but now is the wakeup call? Him and his party paved the way to where we are right now. The chickens have come home to roost.
He can go fuck himself.
The woman holding the camera closest to the murder, she has the biggest courage I’ve ever seen in my life.
You saw the others how they go blurry when the horror started.
That lady is just incredible… I hope good things happen to her for allowing us all to see what this government is all about.
We heard things, we knew and assumed things but now we know. This is proof beyond any doubt that we are all just getting murdered.
After all the “wake up calls” one would assume the metaphorical person’s deaf or just plain dead already.
One of my earliest wake up calls was when a certain president didn’t outright dismantle the Patriot Act, allowing illegal privacy invasion policies on American citizens to continue and have now made the life of ICE officers a lot easier.
I wonder who that president was…
So instead of doing something about it you’re going for whataboutism, we’ll done, whatever makes you feel better about your inaction.
Firstly, may I remind you that you are online? If you are going to criticize someone for inaction, maybe you should stop wasting time bishing and complaining cuz someone made a comment you didn’t like on a social media feed, go outside, and take your own advice.
Secondly, pointing out hypocricy, especially as that hypocrisy relates to a person in power, and especially when said person in power is a former president of the US, is a far cry from whataboutism.
I can draw a straight line from the Patriot Act to the privacy invading tools ICE and other Federal Agencies use today, and while Obama didn’t draft nor sign into law the Patriot Act, he did fuck all to end it. Heck, he extended provisions of that horrendous act in 2012.
So nah, I’m not about to forget that there’s plenty of blame to go around when it comes to Obama. And yeah, I’m gonna shout that shit into this void. Thanks for reading.
You don’t need to worry about me I spend plenty of time outside and petitioning my government.
I’m just sad to see the top comment on this thread focusing on the guy who left office 9 years ago, rather than the one inciting murders on the streets of MN.
I swear to God, “whataboutism” just means, “You stated a fact I don’t like.” Of course it’s relevant that the guy criticizing ICE was someone who could’ve actually done something about them and chose not to. What a load of bull.
Yes Obama was part of the problem too. Refusing to acknowledge the surveillance and rights to authorities as soon as they claimed terrorism were way beyond what’s healthy for a democracy. Unfortunately Obama too was very “American” in that regard.
it’s a wake up call the same way your alarm is a wake up call two hours after it initially went off and you’ve been hitting snooze every five minutes
Obama used drones to murder innocent people. He helped throw the boomerang. Fuck him
But they were brown people.
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There have been sooo many wake up calls. The alarm has been blaring for a decade, and most people keep hitting snooze. The bus is long gone, and you’ve missed so many days, you’re going to be expelled. Final exams are today. Try not to show up in your underpants.
I’d argue in this situation waking up yesterday would be a lot better than waking up today, but also better next week then next year. The more people get awake the bigger the critical mass needed to turn this shit around.
No one really cares until the victims look like them. Now that it’s 2 white people it’s the time to care
People still don’t care. Jack shit is being done about any of this.
There’s a general strike, but we gotta get the billionaires scared (or get rid of them) if we want change.
You’re right, and that’s fucking disgusting.
I’ll take it, though. It’s better than never.
