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A passenger in the car with Ruben Ray Martinez wrote that the men were trying to comply with authorities before Mr. Martinez was shot. The passenger, Joshua Orta, died in a car accident on Saturday.

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[–] emmy67@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why complicate things? He was probably being chased.

[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have a group of arrogant tech oligarchs who are embedded in a fascist government. They've already shown that they're chomping at the bit to try out new surveillance toys. I imagine that it's far simpler/cleaner for them to exploit some vulnerability or built-in back door that makes it look like a reckless teen crashed his own car.

[–] emmy67@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeh but ice was already onto him. I just expect it's easier to use his convenient already in place hit squad