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Comments on An open thread by CharlesWT

"..., having only his cellphone footage to go by, ..."

There's a reason for LEOs to wear body cams. Had he been wearing one, it might be clearer exactly what happened.

A perfect storm of bad decisions on both sides, starting with the agents screaming at her and grabbing her door instead of de-escalating by approaching her calmly.

Should be read, and not just left to an LLM to synopsize

I've read some of it.

Grok gives the series good marks with minor quibbles.

AI Critique: Hype, Limitations, Future

Grok 5 is scheduled to drop sometime this quarter. It's reported to be twice as large and 50% more capable than the current model.

…and I thought the killer would be the substitution of international corporations for national governments.

And AIs will be running the corporations. :) But I think both the AI Boomers and Doomers are overestimating how much change there will be in the next few years. The Boomers are predicting some massive changes for just this year.

A review of the National Review articles.

"Incident Overview: On January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother of three, was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis during an immigration enforcement operation. Evidence suggests she blocked the road with her vehicle, potentially as part of anti-ICE activism, before accelerating forward, leading to the shooting, which federal officials describe as self-defense..."

Minnesota Shooting: Controversy and Bias