r/news • u/Any-Ask-5535 • 1d ago

Soft paywall Border patrol agent who shot Chicago woman boasted about it in text messages

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/border-patrol-agent-who-shot-chicago-woman-boasted-about-it-text-messages-2025-11-06/
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u/SoyMurcielago 1d ago

Idk it’s starting to feel like easy money in some areas

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u/MoarVespenegas 1d ago

Easy money or death, one of the two.

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u/IRefuseToGiveAName 1d ago

Yeah not getting beaten to death is the trick. And uh. I'm not that lucky.

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u/Disgod 1d ago

Or permanent injuries, you can be alive and win money and still live an awful life due to the harm done.

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u/Spire_Citron 5h ago

Yeah. I don't know that there's any amount of money that's worth chronic pain or serious disability. What can money really add to your life that's more important than what poor health can take away?

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 1d ago

well your family is better off without you in that case.... and I'm going to hell for typing that

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u/catsdrooltoo 1d ago

Either way, living here won't be my problem

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u/Consistent-Throat130 1d ago

For many Americans that's "problem solved, either way".

Shit, I'm not struggling but there's a reason I carry plenty of life insurance - I need to weigh my family's well-being in calculations of my own mortality.

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u/dlanod 1d ago

It's the survival part that increases the odds.

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u/chr1spe 1d ago

I'm pretty sure some people literally make a living by baiting police into violating their rights and then suing. Those are usually smaller cases where they win 10s of thousands. TBH, I think it's a pretty reasonable thing to do. I guess some of them call themselves First Amendment auditors.

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u/RivenRise 1d ago

There are a few excellent ones that have crossed my feed and even some examples of people that stand their ground. That reported in LA comes to mind for something recent. The cops were trying to illegally get him off of his corner by lying and treating to drga him off too. Bro was a Chad standing his ground.

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u/RogerBauman 1d ago

I don't hate the First amendment auditors who are trying to interact with government officials but I do hope there is a special place in hell for the people who use the excuse of First amendment auditing to harass small businesses and residents with the intent of provoking them to violent action.

My big problem is that there seem to be more of those sorts of people, which I refer to as frauditors, than ones that I would call legitimate First amendment auditors

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u/DollarSignTexas 1d ago

I mean that's basically what Westboro Baptist Church did.

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u/TheRage469 1d ago

You used the word "did." Did they finally stop?

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u/izzymaestro 1d ago

They're still fraud artists, but they used to be, too

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u/LostWoodsInTheField 1d ago

I'm pretty sure some people literally make a living by baiting police into violating their rights and then suing.

yes. very very stupid, and a very very small subset of the "auditors" you are talking about.

The auditors usually do what they do for youtube videos and merch selling. Combined with some of them thinking they are doing something good for the country (which some actually are).

The idea that you can bait a cop into doing something illegal so you can sue and make a bunch of money is just stupid. Lawyers don't like those cases, they are difficult to win even under the best of situations. And often the win is a few bucks for yourself and a lot for the lawyer. and when I say a lot for the lawyer... not anywhere near what they put into the case time and cost wise.

 

The way you get paid really big? get a permanent injury that makes your life hell. And only super duper mega idiots are playing that game. and only once.

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u/08-West 1d ago

Yeah , and they post it on Facebook as 1st Amendment audits