Courtney Brousseau, 22, died Monday evening, three days after he was hit by gunfire in San Francisco’s Mission District
— Read on people.com/crime/twitter-employee-is-fatally-shot-in-san-francisco-moments-after-posting-poignant-message-on-social-media/
ICYMI…
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Twitter-employee-transit-advocate-dies-after-15248295.php
The gunfire sounded EXACTLY like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eexfLyLvcEA
Here’s the key:
Quote:
A previously inconspicuous blog post on Microsoft’s corporate Web site, promoting the tech giant’s contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has ignited workplace frustrations at Microsoft over the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies. The post went largely unnoticed when it was first published in January, touting “ICE’s decision to accelerate I.T. modernization using Azure Government”—a cloud-computing platform that Microsoft says will enable immigration-enforcement officers to “utilize deep learning capabilities to accelerate facial recognition and identification.” But it exploded into public view this week amid the media uproar over the administration’s decision to separate thousands of undocumented children from their parents as a deterrent against illegal border crossings. A Microsoft employee, noticing the sudden backlash on social media, made the matter worse by deleting the blog post, forcing Microsoft to backtrack when contacted by reporters. The restored language affirms that Microsoft is “proud” to support ICE’s work with its “mission-critical cloud.” (On Monday, Microsoft said it was “dismayed” by the Trump administration’s decision to forcibly separate families at the border).
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/microsoft-employees-azure-ice-partnership
“Program Manager Intern, Microsoft
I wrote a spec for a new feature in Azure Active Directory. Working with the engineering team, we implemented an MVP and shipped it to 3 enterprise customers as a preview. I conducted contextual inquiries with customers and a heuristic evaluation of my mockups. I also proactively designed and implemented my team’s first ever A/B test in the Azure portal.”
https://twitter.com/kayvz/status/1257505974119567360
Courtney Brousseau was a Microsoft intern and a fairly well-connected agitator who made headlines recently via a tweet publicly condemning Microsoft for partnering with ICE who then conducted raids while we’re all under COVID-19 lockdown. The rapid fire sounded like Tavor machine guns (which MSN advertised saying Microsoft would earn an Affiliate Commission on any sales from recommended links in the article) which means that this was likely an assassination, not just a common drive-by shooting. No surprise, considering CA recently eased the background check requirement for purchasing guns and ammo!
Quote: “
as a current
intern, I’d also like to know why Microsoft is “proud to support (the work of ICE)”
https://mobile.twitter.com/cbrewsayso/status/1008749306143170560
Quote: “Despite signs of discontent, only a few employees spoke out, including developer Larry Osterman and intern Courtney Brousseau.”
Quote: An immigrant rights group is calling on ICE to stop hunting down undocumented immigrants amid the coronavirus crisis.
Mijente said the agency has waged a cruel campaign that poses risks to undocumented immigrants detained at facilities where they face new health risks.
Mijente’s call was supported by a group of Microsoft workers who also backed the group’s campaign, calling on tech companies not to share their technologies with ICE.
“They’re putting people’s lives in danger, and they should be stopped,” Mijente organizer Jacinta Gonzalez told Business Insider. “And if Trump won’t stop them, then the tech companies that are facilitating their work and facilitating their targeting of immigrant communities should do everything they can to make sure that ICE and have access to their tools.”
ICE, for its part, made temporary adjustments to operations starting Wednesday, saying it “will exercise discretion to delay enforcement actions until after the crisis or utilize alternatives to detention, as appropriate.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/ice-mijente-microsoft-coronavirus-crisis-2020-3
Quote: “Employees are on edge after the tech giant said it was “proud” to support the immigration-enforcement agency. “This could be Microsoft’s Project Maven moment,” one employee said, referring to the revolt at Google over Silicon Valley’s collaboration with the Trump administration.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/microsoft-employees-azure-ice-partnership
Quote: “IWI recently announced it is finally shipping its much anticipated Tavor 7 rifle, after nearly a year since it was first introduced.
Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/iwi-tavor-7-rifle-finally-shipping/ar-AAG1N6m
Quote: “A federal judge on Thursday blocked a California law requiring background checks for people buying ammunition, issuing a sharply worded rebuke of “onerous and convoluted” regulations that violate the constitutional right to bear arms.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego ruled in favor of the California Rifle & Pistol Association, which asked him to stop the checks and related restrictions on ammo sales.”
Guilded Rage 