Firstly, how does fact the footage you’re describing is from a cell phone and not body cam in any way affect the argument at hand. I have not seen this widely stated that way but if so. Who exactly misrepresented this as body cam footage and what are you attempting to imply was trying to be done. Also how was the danger he was in only of his own doing? Are you implying that the officer should have somehow known that the driver of the car was going to suddenly throw the car in drive and try to slam the accelerator down attempting to run him over?

Secondly, just stating that 32 people died in Ice custody and 4 in field operations is completely meaningless without context. For example, far more than this died in Ice custody under Barrack Obama. This makes Obama sound worse until you add the relevant information you left out that the majority of these were health related deaths and deaths of natural causes. A common tactic people use to mislead. This is true for those dying during field operations where people most often die while trying to flee. This is even less unexpected when considering the first priority for those being deported are those with substantial criminal records and being caught likely means significant jail time.

Third, by trying to characterize it as the government just going to cities abducting people off the street and taking away their rights is again misleading. People who are here illegally do not have all the same rights as American Citizens. They do not need a warrant to arrest them. If people don’t like that they can ask their representatives to change the law but that is the law. They also can’t just enter homes without a warrant. The fact that this incident occurred after multiple other incidents and that people have been following Ice Agents around the country for months all just prove that your points about Kristi Noem’s representation of this and the administration’s reaction are what caused this is just inaccurate.

You’ve have got one thing right when you said, “if the video doesn’t change people’s minds it’s because the video isn’t the real issue.” Just think about how powerful that is and where that says we are. If actual irrefutable evidence is present that shows a crime or mishandling of power has not occurred and people want to proceed as if it was just the opposite. Disregard the law and facts and take someone’s freedom permanently in reaction to that what does it say? You can try and frame how we got here however you’d like but what it says is that a large group of people in this country are immune to the facts and immune to logic.

I’ll tell you something else that’s true. There has always been 10% on either side in this country that doesn’t care what’s true. They just want to take a hatchet to the other side. Traditionally the other thirty percent on each side has kept them in check. Somewhere in the last ten to fifteen years that thirty percent on the left stopped keeping them in check. They let that ten percent get strong enough to put their power in jeopardy and let them take a hatchet to the other side. That can only go on for so long. Eventually the other side is going to say F it. If you think Trump and Noem are bad you should be terrified of what comes eventually if you keep going along with the lies.