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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"If local and state law enforcement aren’t going to step up and do the job they swear an oath to do—protect our communities, the very people they’re supposed to serve—then someone else has to. Because while they stall, federal goon squads are roaming around in broad daylight, abducting and killing innocent people, and pretending it’s normal."
~ Oliver Kornetzke
Uvalde spends 40% of their municipal budget in policing. They also spent a lot of money on training them.
Uvalde police officer Adrian Gonzales was acquitted on all charges for his dereliction of duty & cowardice.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-trial-verdict-reached-case-former-school-police
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/us/uvalde-school-police-officer-trial
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/05/g-s1-104497/trial-officer-accused-failing-to-protect-uvalde
If you have a police force that refuses to do its job, what exactly are you paying for?
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"A crowd of protesters has formed; ICE has unleashed tear gas at the scene."
~ Status Coup
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/9https://www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/breaking-ice-shoots-another-in-minneapolis
Keep up the presence of crowds.
Assad, dictator & mass murderer of Syria, was eventually forced to flee to Russia.
Hopefully, the same can happen to Trump’s regime. The Qatari royals even gave him a plane to do a runner.
We need the names of these mass murdering ICE goons.
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"A New York Times video analysis shows [Alex Pretti] was holding a phone, not a gun, [when federal agents killed him]."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
/39A times headline that's ok?
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"Another day, another dead Minnesotan. Shot in the street while getting pinned down by masked federal thugs. And Donald Trump and Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino wasted no time putting out narratives that don’t at all square with the videos we’re seeing. But who you gonna believe? Them, or your lyin’ eyes?"
Matt Labash
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
/37"The Party [tells] you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears".
Do we really want do insinuate the Big Golden Brother (and his rabid side-kicks) are wrong?
An now please our daily hate-minute: Think about Somalians.
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A times headline that's ok?
The NYT will change the lede & headline later to make it appear that Mr. Pretti deserved to be assassinated.
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A times headline that's ok?
I think I agree with the skeptics that they won’t mess it up eventually
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"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
/28https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-democrats-must-block-ice-funding
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"In graphic video now circulating on social media, six federal agents appear to wrestle the man to the ground in front of the New American Development Center. One of the agents hits the man three times with what appears to be a firearm."
~ Madison McVan & Michelle Griffith
@wdlindsy
so they tortured him before murdering him. Monsters, every fucking one. -
@wdlindsy A city which exemplifies social justice, community and values is being targeted by Trump deliberately. He wants to destroy humane behaviour and replace it with “do as I say or else you may well die” brutality.
@alex_p_roe @wdlindsy Prof Snyder says that Minneapolis was targeted because they have the largest immigrant population in the country and Minnesota has a well functioning welfare state. They truly take care of each other.
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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
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"A New York Times video analysis shows [Alex Pretti] was holding a phone, not a gun, [when federal agents killed him]."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
/39@wdlindsy and, always the best... HCR
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@alex_p_roe @wdlindsy Prof Snyder says that Minneapolis was targeted because they have the largest immigrant population in the country and Minnesota has a well functioning welfare state. They truly take care of each other.
@MiriShuli @wdlindsy Yes, Trump and his ilk detest any money whatsoever being spent on any kind of welfare - they want a return to medieval times. They have zero humanity despite claiming to be Christians.
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"And that just looked like a flat out execution. I mean, even if the man was trying to struggle, even if as early... early reports from DHS are that he had a gun.
There's just no way that he could have, with that many people on top of him, really be a threat that would justify that kind of use of force."
@wdlindsy similar to the George Floyd case in which four officers were on a handcuffed victim.
