• vatlark@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I do think it’s important that we check ourselves. Having a lot footage I think also plays a big role, George Floyd being another example.

    I don’t know of footage of the other ICE deaths, but maybe that’s a bias at play.

    • hobovision@mander.xyz
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      9 hours ago

      There’s also the “one death is a tragedy, 100 deaths is a statistic” situation happening.

      Another factor is that these murders are breaking through to the folks that see the violence of arrests and raids and the deaths and injury of detainees more as a necessary cost. They can’t justify these murders in their world view and they can empathize with them because they know these people did “nothing wrong” and were still killed. Maybe it could be them next?