caitlin has a poor opinion of american conservatives. i wonder if she expands that to everyone else;

They pretend to oppose tyranny but start frantically licking boots whenever there’s a police shooting. They pretend to oppose war and applaud Trump’s warmongering. They pretend to be Christian and ignore most of the New Testament.

After spending days enthusiastically applauding Trump’s freakish act of imperialist aggression to oust the president of Venezuela on the grounds that he is a murderous tyrant, Republicans in the United States are falling all over themselves to justify the cold-blooded murder of a mother of three by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. 

The shooting was caught on video from multiple angles, and from every angle it looks completely unjustifiable by the standards of any normal human being. The officer will probably get off using the usual “feared for his life” defense claiming that he believed the woman was going to run him over with her car. But when you’re repeatedly firing your pistol into the side window of the vehicle, you know you’re not in any danger of being run over. He tracked her head with his gun well after he was out of harm’s way and pulled the trigger anyway, firing at the side of her head from the side of the vehicle.

As one libertarian commentator noted, it was “Less a ‘she did X so I have to shoot her,’ and more of ‘she did X so I get to shoot her.’”............more.........