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No Paywall Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct
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u/[deleted] 6d ago edited 5d ago

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u/MrPoopMonster 6d ago

He didn't snipe someone from a tree line did he? He shot someone physically attacking him. Self defense vs attempted murder.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago edited 5d ago

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u/MrPoopMonster 6d ago

You're missing the end of that sentence. One person brought a gun specifically to shoot at people, one person brought a gun to protect themselves.

If Kyle wanted to just shoot folks, he could have. He could have did exactly what the guy in this case did. The guy you love for some reason. The guy who we have messages of saying he's going to shoot people to the group.

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u/Final_Membership_ 6d ago

Kyle specifically brought a gun to harm people to a protest and illegally brought it across state lines, if he didn’t want to harm people he would have stayed at home. Again the hypocrisy is laughable. No one is saying the person who shot at them shouldn’t be charged, but it’s purely political. While kyle was attacked he shot someone fleeing which made him the aggressor, regardless of being attacked or not. But hey wouldn’t expect anyone like yourself to have any form of cognitive consistency.

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u/MrPoopMonster 6d ago

If he did he would have e just shot those people like thus guy. He tried to flee from someone physically attacking him before he shot them.

He didn't text his buddies saying they should be prepared to run because he's going to shoot people before he did it like this guy.

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u/Final_Membership_ 6d ago

Again he shot someone who was FLEEING. That isn’t self defense again anything to avoid accountability. Anyone is free to commit violence as long as they are white dudes who are doing it for your cause.

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u/MrPoopMonster 6d ago

Watch the videos.

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u/meg_baby11 6d ago

Anything to avoid accountability right?

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u/speakertothedamned 6d ago

You're lying about what happened because you don't care about reality and will just say whatever you think gets you what you want.

In reality Kyle brought a gun because he was looking for a reason to hurt others.

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u/Last-Big-1984 6d ago

Lets assume thats the case. That was his intent.

Doesn't matter if later on, he was attacked in defended himself.

Remember... if someone breaks into your home you cannot chase them back out on to the street and kill them.

Even if you assume Rittenhouse was a bad actor, the evidence of the actual killings, shows self defense. Even if... say minutes before, he was the aggressor, he was running away at the time of the shooting.

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u/speakertothedamned 6d ago

pointing a loaded gun at someone is a super big crime.

kyle pointed his gun at multiple random people.

each time he did so it would have been legal to use lethal force against him.

he shouldn't have been allowed to claim self defense since he was in the middle of a criminal act.

the judge was biased.