There are versions that go frame-by-frame that show the slide back. It looks like that's what happened; it was either a gun failure (it was a Sig P320, which are notorious for that), or the agent was a moron who had his finger on the trigger.
But, yeah, the first shot is fired accidentally into the ground by an agent. What an absolute disaster of an event.
It looks completely fucked. The shooter is going to jail and probably even the rest of these guys. ICE will be lucky to exist by the end of this clown show of an admin.
There are versions that go frame-by-frame that show the slide back. It looks like that's what happened; it was either a gun failure (it was a Sig P320, which are notorious for that), or the agent was a moron who had his finger on the trigger.
But, yeah, the first shot is fired accidentally into the ground by an agent. What an absolute disaster of an event.
Slowed down version: https://x.com/Landeur/status/2015191223900803407
Here's slowmo from the other angle.
https://xcancel.com/AFStreamWatch/status/2015173165081604267#m
It looks completely fucked. The shooter is going to jail and probably even the rest of these guys. ICE will be lucky to exist by the end of this clown show of an admin.
If any of them face repercussions then protesters will feel.emboldened to do whatever they want, a feeling leftists know all too well.