(Older article, relevant today)

  • Border Patrol agents have intentionally and unnecessarily stepped in front of moving cars to justify using deadly force against vehicle occupants.
  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    This article is from 2014.

    It’s important, but also vital to provide context, as the headline makes it sound current.

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      3 months ago

      I literally put the very first sentence of the text that it was an older article.

      The context is that law enforcement has a history of deliberately escalating by placing themselves in front of vehicles.

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        3 months ago

        I suspect a lot of people (myself included) might tend to skip over the text section since a lot of the time it’s some useless AI summary