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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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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"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
/29@wdlindsy excellent source.
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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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@dodo1095zd @alex_p_roe @wdlindsy
That would be Stephen Miller, self proclaimed master of deciding who our laws apply to@Nerde @dodo1095zd @wdlindsy Seems Vance is in on the game too.
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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.@MostlyTato @xs4me2 @wdlindsy What’s not clear is where the military stand. Seems Trump has put is own people in top positions but will that be enough? Will the US military fire on US citizens? I guess we’re getting close to finding out.
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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
/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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"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
/35@wdlindsy Yes. The door dash lady -- they kept yelling at her that "It will only get worse!"
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"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
/35"Remember dont bring a gun to a protest, unless its an illegal fire arm and you cross state lines and your name is Kyle. Then totally bring a gun, so we can call you a hero.
"#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder #KyleRittenhouse
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"Remember dont bring a gun to a protest, unless its an illegal fire arm and you cross state lines and your name is Kyle. Then totally bring a gun, so we can call you a hero.
"#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder #KyleRittenhouse
/36@wdlindsy accurate sentiment
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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@wdlindsy Then we prove them wrong.
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"Remember dont bring a gun to a protest, unless its an illegal fire arm and you cross state lines and your name is Kyle. Then totally bring a gun, so we can call you a hero.
"#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder #KyleRittenhouse
/36"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
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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"RIP, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care nurse by trade. Intensive-care nurses, not typically being he most war-like people. And who the goon squad is already slandering as a 'domestic terrorist.' Yeah, I’m for stopping domestic terrorism, too. Which is why someone should arrest Stephen Miller, who takes demented pleasure in waging war on his own people. While prompting his corrupt boss to do the same."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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@MostlyTato @xs4me2 @wdlindsy What’s not clear is where the military stand. Seems Trump has put is own people in top positions but will that be enough? Will the US military fire on US citizens? I guess we’re getting close to finding out.
@alex_p_roe @MostlyTato @wdlindsy
If they would take the constitution that they swore an oath on anyhow serious, they would turn against this fascist regime. Getting close indeed…
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"RIP, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care nurse by trade. Intensive-care nurses, not typically being he most war-like people. And who the goon squad is already slandering as a 'domestic terrorist.' Yeah, I’m for stopping domestic terrorism, too. Which is why someone should arrest Stephen Miller, who takes demented pleasure in waging war on his own people. While prompting his corrupt boss to do the same."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
/38"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
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@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?
@alex_p_roe @MostlyTato @wdlindsy
Given that and the amount of guns in the US, and the resistance we see now, they would not take it. California, Illinois, Washington, Minnesota and their governors have been very vocal. They will not be oppressed, neither others. Apart from the die-hard indoctrinated followers this will not fly…
The agitation of democratic states is obvious here.
