Well, Alex Pretti got shot either way. If he had taken a couple with him I would call that something gained.
I think a major point here is that these goons can act with impunity because most people haven’t internalised yet that if you’re being arrested or raided by them there’s a high chance you’ll be killed or disappeared to El Salvador. At some point, the best you can do is just to try to take a couple of them with you. Once people start treating interactions with them as the life threatening situations they are, they’re going to have a lot harder of a time.
Disagree. If one ICE gets shot, it’s cassis belli to be even more brutal. And the resistance loses the moral high ground. And the fence-sitters.
And it isn’t as if Alex shooting one or two would have saved him from the eight others.
Nothing gained, only lost.
Well, Alex Pretti got shot either way. If he had taken a couple with him I would call that something gained.
I think a major point here is that these goons can act with impunity because most people haven’t internalised yet that if you’re being arrested or raided by them there’s a high chance you’ll be killed or disappeared to El Salvador. At some point, the best you can do is just to try to take a couple of them with you. Once people start treating interactions with them as the life threatening situations they are, they’re going to have a lot harder of a time.
Brutality comes with consequences too.