XponentialChaos
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No doubt you're right. But it doesn't really matter what we think from the relative safety and comfort of our office chairs in front of our computers.
The atmosphere was incredibly tense, what with all the yelling, chants and car horns blowing and that is precisely what the protestors wanted. However, it never occurred to them that it might backfire on them in some way. By deliberately agitating the officers this way at every ICE operation and given the attempted murder of the National Guardsmen, they virtually guaranteed that sooner or later, something like this would happen.
I don’t disagree. Sooner or later, someone was going to do something stupid.
To be clear, I think both Good and Ross messed up here.
By making any contact whatsoever with Ross, Good deserves to go to jail. Intent or not, that’s not acceptable.
However, what’s also true is that Ross’ ability to assess how dangerous a threat is, is waaay off. From that distance, coming from a speed of 0, that was never going to significantly harm him. At worst, he knew that he was going to be fine and he wanted a reason to kill her. At best, he genuinely feared for his life. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt in saying that he genuinely thought that it was more dangerous than it was. But he was clearly very wrong about that.

