48 SECONDS:

January 10th, I reported an incident I titled “47 SECONDS”. It started like this:  

 It is the last 47 seconds of one’s life, recorded by numerous people, recorded from different angles, actual angles and then interpreted by political angles. Seated in the driver’s seat of your car, which is idling in a road with sirens and car horns blasting in the background, you hear your spouse who is outside the vehicle say, “Drive, baby, drive”. Someone else, a male’s voice is beseeching you three times in rapid succession to “get out of the car”, “get out of the car” and finally, “get out of the fucking car”.

   Today’s blog segment is “48 SECONDS”, one second longer but with the same result. At the end of the 48 seconds of video recorded in the streets of Minneapolis someone dies, again at the hand of an ICE agent or possible more than one. 

   The same questions I had on January 10th arise again and again the questions are answered almost immediately on the nightly news by folks who were not there. Each answer is filled with hear say and innuendo offered by opinionated folks freely commenting with a slant toward their political beliefs, left and right. I would just like to have the factual answers.

   What was he doing there at that intersection/street/area?

   Did he always carry his legal firearm?

   Was he a threat or an inconvenience? 

   Who is this “agent” and what was his training?

   Why did the agent(s) shoot?

    

   This is again another complicated incident, on both sides of the spectrum. My final question is , “What are the ground rules as a citizen, a protester, and/or an ICE agent ?”

   Only 280 days until the midterms, folks…