Police Drones in Haiti Have Killed More Than 1,000 People

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Police in Haiti has killed more than 1000 people with drones. What is this bullshit avoiding attribution to actually responsible people?

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Well, its called burying the lede:

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Since August of 2025, Blackwater founder and prominent Donald Trump donor Erik Prince has helped deploy hundreds of private mercenaries to Haiti, Al Jazeera has reported. In addition to supplying personnel, Prince has acted as a key advisor to the drone assassination task force responsible for the devastation, which has drawn condemnations from human rights groups for suspected violations of international law.

Blackwater is a private military company responsible for the Nisour Square Massacre in Iraq, a shooting which left 17 civilians dead. (The four contractors responsible were pardoned by Trump during his first stint in the Oval Office.)

Evidently, Prince is now exporting that same carnage to Haiti — this time with drones — furthering a history of heavy-handed US meddling in the affairs of the beleaguered Caribbean nation.

Surprise!

Somehow, Blackwater returned.

But uh yeah burying the lede is what you do when you’re a coward, journalist style.

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Bullets went on a killing spree

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Civilians inexplicably stood in a line of fire

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Police AND private contractors like Erik Prince

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It was not the police who made the mistake, but the automatic drones! A great excuse yoo.

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If you’re gonna get all bent out of shape about it then why attribute to police when they don’t have volition in the matter: “Haiti has killed more than 1000 people with police drones”

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This fucking future sucks.

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Erik Prince is directly behind this shit

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His sister is Betsy DeVos, both children of billionaire Edgar Prince.

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Science and tech somewhat help the new modern world but it also gives us lots of new, cool ways to kill!

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Though the ongoing drone attacks are said to be part of a protracted campaign to reign in gang activity, there are at least 17 children counted among the dead, as well as 43 adults who are confirmed to have been civilian non-combatants

Minors can be gang members and murderers.

Interesting would be to know how many people the gangs killed on the same time. How many people did police kill in other ways in recent years?

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Pretends to care about nuance by positing children could be murderers

Blatantly ignores 43 confirmed innocents killed mentioned in own comment

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Please just look at OC’s post history, this is par for the course.

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You could also be a gang member and murderer. Never can be sure. So I guess a police drone should be on its way to you?

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Haiti is a pretty violent place. This article tells us very little context.

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indeed, very little context and information but you still felt the need to say that the children that were killed were probably gang members and murderers. A bit weird if you ask me, but you do you.

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probably

I mean possibly.

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Yeah I know. That’s why I said that its possible that you are also a gang member and should be droned. I assume you don’t have a problem with that.

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I didn’t say anything about anyone should be droned.

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That’s not boring at all. That’s a full blown what if $superhero really started to put the pressure on all crime episode.

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