“Fcking bitch,” Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, says in the video.*

A newly released cellphone video, apparently filmed by the ICE officer who killed Renee Nicole Good, and obtained by Minneapolis-based Alpha News, a conservative-leaning nonprofit news site, appears to sharply contradict the U.S. government’s public account of the fatal Wednesday shooting, raising new questions about whether the agent who opened fire was ever in immediate danger.

The footage was recorded on a cellphone by ICE officer Jonathan Ross, not by a department body camera. It captures Ross’s own perspective as he approaches Good’s maroon Honda Pilot during what the Department of Homeland Security claims was a federal operation in south Minneapolis.

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    Drones are a tool of the modern battlefield. A tethered drone does not need to fly autonomously. Of course you can program for autonomy if you have the skills, and the autonomous task for armed resistance is not overly complicated, could be as simple as a straight line path.

    Can’t be had for 50 dollars (I didn’t say this), but learning to fly and build drones like that is available to just about anyone, and inexpensively. Moreover drones have non-killing civilian applications - SAR, emergency services, videography - so the skillset can be built without raising concerns or attention.

    Ordnance is added later as needed.

    Entirely hypothetical, of course. I’m not suggesting anything, but I will point out that the 2nd Amendment seems to have done absolutely nothing but cost the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands, including young children. When it comes to it, the guns are useless. They ended up being a fashion accessory bathed in the blood of toddlers.

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      a 50$ flying toy?

      Drones are a tool of the modern battlefield. A tethered drone does not need to fly autonomously. Of course you can program for autonomy if you have the skills, and the autonomous task for armed resistance is not overly complicated, could be as simple as a straight line path.

      Go see a psychiatrist.

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        Not sure what the paste above has to do with seeing a psychiatrist. I stated technical facts about drones.

        It might have made sense if you’d tied your advice to loosely evidenced geopolitical claims. You could argue they are conspiratorial.

        Did you just run out of things to say?

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          So, first you imply everyone should have a drone, as “they’re a 50 dollar toy”. I ask who would be flying it and for what reason, and you refuse to specify, and then go on about how wired drones don’t need to be autonomous and start rambling on about payloads and geopolitical situations.

          So you think you can fly a wired drone while you’re driving a car or doing something else and that said wired drone is a “50 dollar toy” despite you clearly describing military hardware?

          Go. See. A. Mental. Health. Professional.