The story is sad but not exactly one that should inspire much sympathy. From the AP report:
“A man running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor trailer on Tuesday, authorities said….The 28-year-old was among four occupants of a vehicle that stopped in the parking lot of a gas station and convenience store in the St. Augustine area before 7 a.m. During an encounter with agents from ICE and Homeland Security Investigations, the four fled on foot, with one darting across a busy road into the path of the semi…”
Let’s be clear, now: a man was eluding law enforcement officials when he ran across a “busy road” and was hit by a truck. There are exactly two possible parties responsible for that death: the man running across the road, and the truck driver. There is nobody else to blame, and finding the truck driver responsible requires a quite stretch. Here is how the Associated Press characterizes the fatality, however:
“It was the third death in a week involving encounters with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, following shootings in Texas and Maine…It was at least the 10th death involving encounters with immigration agents since President Donald Trump launched his mass deportation campaign last year.”
That is pure deceit and indecent false framing. In cases where an individual dies at the hands of ICE agents, justifiably or not, the conduct of the agents can be fairly considered factors in the deaths. However, an individual who resists arrest and recklessly flees into the grill of a truck has not been killed by ICE, nor is ICE responsible for the death. The dead man would be alive if he obeyed law enforcement, as anyone in this country is obligated to do. He chose to run into traffic; ICE didn’t make him do that.
Never mind, though. You know we’ll be reading diatribes from the open borders fanatics that the dead man had a family, and was a respected member of the community, and he is dead because of Trump’s Gestapo. The Associated Press (and others) enable these advocates for illegal immigration with their deliberate anti-ICE and Trump Deranged spin. Naturally, other agents of pro-illegal immigration propaganda will add this death to the total that we will see repeatedly cited to show how “brutal” the enforcement of our immigration laws are.
Ethics Alarms 
If America is such a bad country, with people dying from school shootings and being unable to afford health care, then why would anyone run across a busy road to avoid deportation?
I’m sorry Jack but no. Lord knows the AP has messed up in the past but not here. The article is perfectly factual. You’re engaging in the “Oh no, what will people think?” instinct that ideologues on both the left and right go to when they’re afraid of how readers will react. It’s still news.
And was this a late night posting? Do you seriously not see the astonishing problems with your headline? The Mainstream “Medium”??? What is this, a seance? And the pointless colon at the end of the headline? Why can’t at least one of your already too many posts every day wait until morning when you can check it before posting? I have to believe other people have begged you to install this basic discipline.
Were you born this stupid or did it develop over time?
Heh!
PWS
For those playing at home, Joel was insulting the original poster not Jack
Yeah, now that the original post from “A Friend” has been removed, my response looks far more sinister…like an attack against our host.
That’s probably why it’s better that I simply not respond to him/her. Most of the time I stay clear…this time, I just couldn’t help myself.
In truth, the reason I didn’t just spam AF’s blather as I usually do was to preserve your comment! When a comment goes, so do all the responses to it.
This idiot dismisses concerns about public perception while worrying the article might fuel unwanted reactions. The irony escapes him/her. Then, thinking that drivel establishes himself/herself a good writer and thinker, he/she feels justified in making a personal attack. And then he/she looks in the mirror and sees a hero. Setting up a rhetorical attack is not easy with a clearly overestimated baseline intelligence, and then taking pride in being “on the right side of history” with insults. His/her parents would be proud. I know I would be!
If those dead illegal immigrants had come to this country legally, none of this would have happened.
It’s their fault.
…and it’s time for some common-sense tractor-trailer reform…
Joel is on a frickin’ roll today!
According to the CDC over 8,000 pedestrians are killed on America’s streets each year. To answer ‘A Friend,’ even though the story seems correct and factual, the only reason to cover this event at all is to drag ICE into it with guilt by association. Jack’s assessment of media bias is clear.