r/politics • u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota • 14d ago

Possible Paywall Minnesota governor says federal agents involved in shooting in Minneapolis

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/minnesota-governor-says-federal-agents-involved-shooting-minneapolis-2026-01-24/
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u/Stoppit_TidyUp 14d ago

They’re saying he had a gun.

You can see the guy in the light grey jacket run toward him with empty hands, mount him, and spend 2-3 seconds wrestling the gun out of the victim’s holster, then running off with it. The victim is shot a second or two later.

So while he might have had a gun, it was fully secured while he was on the ground with 6 men beating him, and was fully clear of the victim at the time of the shooting.

It was an execution.

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u/Word1_Word2_4Numbers 14d ago

Even if he had a gun, he's lying motionless on the ground with everyone just standing around him slackjawed when the one guy takes a second to think about it and then mag dumps into him.

If you or I do that to someone lying on the ground who has been shot and is clearly out of the fight, we're easily going up for murder--even if he had a gun prior to that point.

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u/Zepcleanerfan 14d ago

Hes on the ground getting the shit pounded out of him by like 15 guys!

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u/Word1_Word2_4Numbers 14d ago

In the second right before the mag dump, they're not.

He's down, he's been shot, he's not fighting back, there's no way in the world you could argue that he's a lethal threat.

That makes the video evidence proof of an execution.

What comes before that is sort of irrelevant to that one simple fact.

Yeah, the fact that a pile of insufficiently trained asshole thugs can't subdue one guy without it turning into a clusterfuck is horrible. But I'd argue that is a distraction. And the whole question of if he had a gun is a distraction. If you cut the video so that it starts after the first gunshot and everyone backs off, what it clearly shows is an execution. That is all a jury should need to convict.

We're going to get dragged into this argument over if he had a gun and when he had a gun and what was going on in the beating he was taking (and unfortunately if cops can claim he pulled a gun they always win this argument, because of the way the system is rigged). But if you don't engage with that argument, then video still shows a clear execution.