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Best comment I have read on this situation.....
A 37-year-old woman. Three kids. Middle of a work week. The father of those children is dead. She is the parent left. The one job she has above every cause, every protest, every headline, is getting home to her kids.
And what is she doing instead?
Sheโs 500 miles from home, in the street, in her car, blocking federal agents who are doing their job. Not alone! Her partner is right there filming her like this is some brave little documentary moment. Around them: whistles blaring, people yelling, pure chaos, manufactured chaos, so agents canโt do their lawful duty.
Her window is down. She hears the orders. She understands the orders. She ignores the orders.
Then she puts the car in reverse.
Still doesnโt comply.
Then she puts it in drive, NOT park! She moves forward into the agent.
Thatโs not โconfusion.โ
Thatโs not โpanic.โ
Thatโs decision after decision after decision.
Now put yourself in the agentโs shoes for half a second. A driver is already in an unlawful act! refusing commands in a hostile, chaotic scene, and now that driver uses a vehicle to move toward you. You get a split second. You donโt get the luxury of โMaybe sheโs just stressed.โ You have to assume the worst, you have to think of protecting other people like the partner at ther window, because if you assume the best and youโre wrong, you donโt go home or someone else.
So the agent fires after she makes an intentional and aggressive move toward him, because he has no idea what her intentions are, and she just demonstrated sheโs willing to escalate.
Nowโฆ imagine her three kids. At school. Sitting there like any other day. Not knowing their mother is out playing street-hero games for criminals in the middle of a work week, with the two adults reaponsible for them!
She didnโt think about them.
She didnโt think, โIf I get arrested, who picks my babies up?โ
She didnโt think, โIf I get hurt, who raises them?โ
She didnโt think, โIf I die, they have nobody.โ
She thought about protecting criminals.
She thought about interfering with federal agents.
She thought about the camera.
She thought about the crowd.
She thought about the moment.
There is no amount of evidence, money, tears on TV, or news spin that can make this make sense.
As a mother: NOTHING about this makes sense.
At minimum, she knew her actions could get her arrested. At minimum. And she still chose it. She chose strangers. She chose chaos. She chose lawlessness.
Make it make sense, because the only thing I see is three kids who just got abandoned by the only parent they had left, not by accidentโฆ but by a series of deliberate choices."
Best comment I have read on this situation.....
A 37-year-old woman. Three kids. Middle of a work week. The father of those children is dead. She is the parent left. The one job she has above every cause, every protest, every headline, is getting home to her kids.
And what is she doing instead?
Sheโs 500 miles from home, in the street, in her car, blocking federal agents who are doing their job. Not alone! Her partner is right there filming her like this is some brave little documentary moment. Around them: whistles blaring, people yelling, pure chaos, manufactured chaos, so agents canโt do their lawful duty.
Her window is down. She hears the orders. She understands the orders. She ignores the orders.
Then she puts the car in reverse.
Still doesnโt comply.
Then she puts it in drive, NOT park! She moves forward into the agent.
Thatโs not โconfusion.โ
Thatโs not โpanic.โ
Thatโs decision after decision after decision.
Now put yourself in the agentโs shoes for half a second. A driver is already in an unlawful act! refusing commands in a hostile, chaotic scene, and now that driver uses a vehicle to move toward you. You get a split second. You donโt get the luxury of โMaybe sheโs just stressed.โ You have to assume the worst, you have to think of protecting other people like the partner at ther window, because if you assume the best and youโre wrong, you donโt go home or someone else.
So the agent fires after she makes an intentional and aggressive move toward him, because he has no idea what her intentions are, and she just demonstrated sheโs willing to escalate.
Nowโฆ imagine her three kids. At school. Sitting there like any other day. Not knowing their mother is out playing street-hero games for criminals in the middle of a work week, with the two adults reaponsible for them!
She didnโt think about them.
She didnโt think, โIf I get arrested, who picks my babies up?โ
She didnโt think, โIf I get hurt, who raises them?โ
She didnโt think, โIf I die, they have nobody.โ
She thought about protecting criminals.
She thought about interfering with federal agents.
She thought about the camera.
She thought about the crowd.
She thought about the moment.
There is no amount of evidence, money, tears on TV, or news spin that can make this make sense.
As a mother: NOTHING about this makes sense.
At minimum, she knew her actions could get her arrested. At minimum. And she still chose it. She chose strangers. She chose chaos. She chose lawlessness.
Make it make sense, because the only thing I see is three kids who just got abandoned by the only parent they had left, not by accidentโฆ but by a series of deliberate choices."
