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Reflecting on past mistakes isn't necessarily demoralizing, realizing that this isnt a new thing is good for future analysis. Hopefully everyone will come out too when the following George Floyd gets inevitably murdered

I agree. I'm minority and I support starting to be pissed at this at any level and time. Just stick to it until its not a problem anymore.

This. People were already protesting ICE long before Renée Good got killed. The racists, white supremacists, and nazis are still not protesting today. They don't care if a murdered protestor is white. A Nazi is going to view any white protesters as race traitors. What's happening right now is a dramatic shift in the scope of what ICE is doing. Rather than simply targeting immigrants, it's being deployed against protestors and in crowd control efforts. The extent of people they're targeting and how they're targeting them is dramatically expanding as well.

In 2025, at least 32 people died in custody after being detained by ICE. This has caused massive protests nationwide.

But in 2025, there were only 2 people known to have been shot and killed by ICE:

Silverio Villegas González - September 12 - undocumented immigrant shot and killed by ICE in his car after dropping his kids off at school in Chicago. Video circulated online of his window getting broken out and him getting dragged out of the car after being shot.

Keith Porter - December 31 - African American father shot and killed in Los Angeles while allegedly setting off fireworks. There are no videos of what happened.

The first people shot and killed by ICE in 2026 include:

Renée Good - January 7 - woman shot and killed in her vehicle in Minneapolis. Videos of the incident circulated online. She was not actively protesting.

Alex Pretti - January 24 - protestor murdered execution style in Minneapolis for attempting to help a woman get safely to a sidewalk.

That's it. This image includes completely incorrect information. Jaime Alanís Garcia died from breaking his neck after allegedly falling 30 feet from a building while a cannabis farm was being raided by ICE in Ventura County, California. ICE and CBP claims they were not targeting him. There's no video of the incident.

Stuff is dramatically escalating, and it's presumably about to get much much worse.

I feel like this is super accurate. Of course its a factor but like all things race doesn't exist in a vacuum. There are other major contributing factors at play and I like this comment.

And the outrage over Floyd was in the same city and erupted even more aggressively. The citizens are being more strategic and thoughtful in their dissent this time so it may be more learning than a difference in specific response. While race does change the narrative you're very right that the visibility of the incident seems to be a major factor in the outrage and bridging of the action-intention gap.

let op vent. Black and brown people have every fucking right to be pissed at the sudden shift from the daily lackadaisical attitude of white people while black and brown people have been lynched on streets for decades for fighting for your rights. When black and brown people win, white people win. When black and brown people lose, white people keep on goin. White people are suddenly inconvenienced at the ideo that they no longer have a second amendment. Welcome to the daily lives of black and brown people you have been unaware of until now since white people are finally rejecting their capital W Whiteness.

Previous years white people put up a black avatar on instagram for george floyd and brianna taylor. Now theyre willing to die when its white people.

Major shift in attitude from the whites and yes its about damn time white people woke up to the violence. Keep putting your bodies in the front though and do some good

It's never been covered up.

This has always been very public knowledge, with which the US population was complacent.

Biden was not primary'd out despite having a role in this, proving that even progressives were fine with it.

Trump was reelected despite knowledge that he would make the situation worse, proving a lot of the US population loves this.

Liberals only started caring about the death camp police once they started shooting people in public, and are now feeling rightfully afraid since ICE is ok killing whites too now. I fear that the ongoing movement is going to be a defensive one, do a bit of defund ICE roleplay, stop when ICE says ok we're not shooting people on the streets anymore you win, and be fine with that conclusion. A complete dismantling and prosecution of ICE, including a liberation of all the migrants in the camps (especially the thousands "lost" by the system) is the only way forward otherwise the death toll will keep getting worse - 2026 is already the worst year on record in that regard and we're still in january.

Insert the MLK quote on white liberals being worse enemies to minorities than the KKK. Don't care much about this thread's feelings by now since they've demonstrated they only care how the situation affects their own feelings, instead of seeing that there is a bigger picture of a social justice fight for migrants being potentially derailed by liberals who are only looking for justice for themselves. I would hate to be the "told you so" person in a while after this whole thing fizzles out and nothing changes, praying time proves me wrong.

The best 'convert' is the one that got there on their own. They're already primed to believe us when we warn next time.

We do harm by mocking the leopards-ate-my-face crowd when they finally catch on. Even if it is cathartic.

There's room to tell them "Oh that thing we warned you about actually happened? maybe we weren't crazy", but we should then welcome them in and guide them instead of a rude "I told ya so" and no empathy.

Yeah. Memes like this are making the perfect the enemy of the good. Is there an issue? Sure. Is this the right time for that issue? I'm not so sure about that one.

Minneapolis: Check.

On video: Check.

Massive uproar: Check.

White victim: Nope.

George Floyd's death shows that what matters is that it happened in front of witnesses who were recording on video, not the colour of the victims' skin.