Sam Harris

Let's just bend over backwards to be charitable to ICE and the Trump regime.

There's no question that some of what protesters do is unwise and illegal and almost certainly unnecessary to express their free speech opposition to what's happening.

So, I mean, I'm sure there are maneuvers with people's cars, blocking traffic, and it's still uncertain to me just what Renee Goode was doing that was illegal or not.

But let's just price all of that in.

Let's just say this is, you know, to some degree, you know, the fuck around and find out principle is operative.

You shouldn't be doing dangerous, illegal things in order to protest.

Okay, great.

But what she clearly wasn't doing was trying to run over cops with her car.

There was no reason to escalate this situation.

This was not a situation that had to be violent, that was running off the rails.

ICE officers weren't being threatened by anyone.

They came in so aggressively and were shouting contradictory commands.

Whatever you think about the first shot, I still think that was unjustifiable.

But even if you're going to bend over backwards and say, all right, this is an officer who perceived any movement of the car to be imperiling his life.

I mean, first of all, moron that he is, he's walking in front of the car.

He actually thought he was in a hostile situation.

Why would you walk in front of a car like that?

You simply wouldn't.

This is bad training, bad recruitment.

Bad common sense.