Because much commentary is now being posted about the killing of a man in Minneapolis today by armed and masked federal agents, and because my previous thread about this today has grown long, I'm starting a separate thread about this now.
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This is what I hear indeed... there is a bunch of criminals in the White House...
They do not intend to go peacefully, Trump has shown that before...
@xs4me2 @alex_p_roe @wdlindsy
They have all the power, they want a war. They lack numbers, but they have all the strength and arguably still the support of around a third of the population. They think they can win. -
"Open carry is legal in Minnesota. The videos I have seen do not support the idea that he was trying to shoot ICE agents.
We also know that ICE tried to prevent local law enforcement from securing the scene and collecting evidence. ...
The simple truth is that none of this would have happened if Trump had not sent thousands of out-of-control, masked agents to terrorize people in an American city."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder
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Why Democrats Must Block the ICE Funding Bill
Some fights are worth having no matter the outcome
(www.messageboxnews.com)
"Zeteo spoke with two doctors who knew the victim to shed light on the man whom federal agents senselessly killed on Saturday.
'He was just a super nice guy, a super capable nurse,' Dimitri Drekonja, a doctor who knew and worked alongside Pretti, told Zeteo. 'And we are in a worse place for him being killed.'”
~ Prem Thakker
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Two doctors share their memories of Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent immigration raids in Minneapolis.
(zeteo.com)
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@wdlindsy they've managed to find two white people called Good and Pretti. Who's next? Angelic? Perfect?
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"Zeteo spoke with two doctors who knew the victim to shed light on the man whom federal agents senselessly killed on Saturday.
'He was just a super nice guy, a super capable nurse,' Dimitri Drekonja, a doctor who knew and worked alongside Pretti, told Zeteo. 'And we are in a worse place for him being killed.'”
~ Prem Thakker
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Two doctors share their memories of Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent immigration raids in Minneapolis.
(zeteo.com)
"Bystander videos depict a gruesome scene in which Pretti was swarmed by a mob of agents, who shot him repeatedly. Multiple shots appeared to have been fired at him when he was already lying motionless on the ground."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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"Bystander videos depict a gruesome scene in which Pretti was swarmed by a mob of agents, who shot him repeatedly. Multiple shots appeared to have been fired at him when he was already lying motionless on the ground."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
/30"Pretti worked as a nurse in an intensive care unit. In 2017, he was hired to support a Veterans Affairs medical trial, later moving on to work in critical-care nursing, according to the doctors who brought him on board. …
Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who co-led the trial with Drekonja, echoed the sentiment. 'He was just so sincere and very kind, just a sweet young man and eager to learn,' she told Zeteo."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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"Pretti worked as a nurse in an intensive care unit. In 2017, he was hired to support a Veterans Affairs medical trial, later moving on to work in critical-care nursing, according to the doctors who brought him on board. …
Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who co-led the trial with Drekonja, echoed the sentiment. 'He was just so sincere and very kind, just a sweet young man and eager to learn,' she told Zeteo."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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@xs4me2 @alex_p_roe @wdlindsy
They have all the power, they want a war. They lack numbers, but they have all the strength and arguably still the support of around a third of the population. They think they can win.@MostlyTato @alex_p_roe @wdlindsy
History shows that tyranny will never win, it is what the USA were built on. To be free from tyranny. Let us hope for the best and that truth and law will prevail
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"Zeteo spoke with two doctors who knew the victim to shed light on the man whom federal agents senselessly killed on Saturday.
'He was just a super nice guy, a super capable nurse,' Dimitri Drekonja, a doctor who knew and worked alongside Pretti, told Zeteo. 'And we are in a worse place for him being killed.'”
~ Prem Thakker
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
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DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Two doctors share their memories of Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent immigration raids in Minneapolis.
(zeteo.com)
@wdlindsy
Republicans hate Americans because they hate America. -
Warning that video footage of this killing is graphic and disturbing, Prem Thakker and Asawin Suebsaeng say,
"A swarm of agents mob an individual, pushing him to the ground. After the person is surrounded, agents then shoot him multiple times. The shots appear to continue as the individual lies motionless on the ground."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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WATCH: Trump’s Federal Agents Killed Someone in Minneapolis. Again
It is the third shooting by Trump’s immigration agents in the Minneapolis area in recent weeks, and comes after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good.
(zeteo.com)
I feel like ICE is under orders to create the most egregiously disturbing media to provoke a violent response, so that Trump can invoke the insurrection act, and send in the military.
Trump wants a civil war.
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I feel like ICE is under orders to create the most egregiously disturbing media to provoke a violent response, so that Trump can invoke the insurrection act, and send in the military.
Trump wants a civil war.
@Edelruth @wdlindsy though I'm not truly happy, it's good to hear other voices finally realizing the shit show that's been launched against the USA. It's why Trump blocked the bipartisan immigration bill that was going to be passed if it was placed on Biden's desk in 2024. It helped him win the election.
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"Bystander videos depict a gruesome scene in which Pretti was swarmed by a mob of agents, who shot him repeatedly. Multiple shots appeared to have been fired at him when he was already lying motionless on the ground."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
/30@wdlindsy I normally would never share something from commercial social media, but I can't find another source. The slowed down video clearly shows an agent remove the victim's firearm from the holster and then walk away with it, then they opened fire. It's the same gun that dhs paraded out to day he was threatening them with a firearm.
He disarmed the victim, then called out "gun", then they opened fire. In that order. This was an execution.
I can only surmise that they were looking for such an opportunity, in order to say that they were attacked by a gun toting lunatic. This could be it. If cooler heads don't prevail, if there's anything resembling rioting, you know what comes next.
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It is really unbelievable to be witnessing this evil thug and his helpers, I feel like I am in a remake of the 1930s... surreal...
Who will defend the constitution and democracy and how... that is the question.
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@MostlyTato @alex_p_roe @wdlindsy
History shows that tyranny will never win, it is what the USA were built on. To be free from tyranny. Let us hope for the best and that truth and law will prevail
@xs4me2 @MostlyTato @wdlindsy Hope so but the road ahead is looking distinctly bumpy. The law no longer seems to count for much. While tyranny does tend to fail, it can last many years. The US was built by people escaping oppression. Will it accept being oppressed?
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@xs4me2 @alex_p_roe @wdlindsy
They have all the power, they want a war. They lack numbers, but they have all the strength and arguably still the support of around a third of the population. They think they can win. -
"Pretti worked as a nurse in an intensive care unit. In 2017, he was hired to support a Veterans Affairs medical trial, later moving on to work in critical-care nursing, according to the doctors who brought him on board. …
Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who co-led the trial with Drekonja, echoed the sentiment. 'He was just so sincere and very kind, just a sweet young man and eager to learn,' she told Zeteo."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #murder #AlexPretti
/31"Again we have an ICE killing in which the Department of Homeland Security gets a story out first which, on its face, appears to describe an armed civilian in the process of committing a massacre of federal law enforcement officers. …
As now happens 100% of the time, these early DHS narratives are willfully absurd and don’t survive contact with abundant video evidence emerging from the scene."
~ Josh Marshall
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"Again we have an ICE killing in which the Department of Homeland Security gets a story out first which, on its face, appears to describe an armed civilian in the process of committing a massacre of federal law enforcement officers. …
As now happens 100% of the time, these early DHS narratives are willfully absurd and don’t survive contact with abundant video evidence emerging from the scene."
~ Josh Marshall
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
/32"My best current understanding is that the dead man, Alex Pretti, 37, was legally carrying a licensed firearm and was at the scene in some sort of observer status or perhaps there to place himself between ICE agents and those they were trying to assault or arrest. Video evidence seems to show clearly Pretti never brandished his firearm and actually used clear non-confrontation signals in his engagement with ICE agents."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"My best current understanding is that the dead man, Alex Pretti, 37, was legally carrying a licensed firearm and was at the scene in some sort of observer status or perhaps there to place himself between ICE agents and those they were trying to assault or arrest. Video evidence seems to show clearly Pretti never brandished his firearm and actually used clear non-confrontation signals in his engagement with ICE agents."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
/33"What’s more, video evidence appears to show that ICE agents had already confiscated Pretti’s firearm in a scuffle before shooting him multiple times. …
The goal is submission and the strategy to achieve that goal is escalation. Miller, Homan and the leaders of ICE and CBP believe that they’ll come out on top at every step up the ICE/CPB escalation ladder."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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"What’s more, video evidence appears to show that ICE agents had already confiscated Pretti’s firearm in a scuffle before shooting him multiple times. …
The goal is submission and the strategy to achieve that goal is escalation. Miller, Homan and the leaders of ICE and CBP believe that they’ll come out on top at every step up the ICE/CPB escalation ladder."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
/34"They’re communicating this to the protestors and activists and the communities in which they’re operating: the more you resist us, the worse it will be for you and eventually you’ll have to back down. …
They believe public resisters will eventually have to knuckle under. So they’re happy to keep escalating. Because they have more and bigger guns and eventually those who oppose them will have to give in."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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