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Another Shooting Death By Fed Agents In Minneapolis (Jan. 24)
More likely that it will bring the US Army to the city already under siege. At the risk of being redundant,,,,,,,, it gets worse by the hour. What is shocking is how many of our fellow citizens still support him. Scares the hell out of me.
I wrote both senators again: ### I told you you were going to have blood on your hands. Slow down ICE or you're going to have more or another Kent State! If ICE wasn't there TWO American citizens would still be alive!!
This is total BS and the GOP's fault for not limiting Trumps private army.
DO something like limit their funding until they get proper training... something!! For god sakes they're killing Americans!!!!!
Is this worth not releasing the Epstein files? ###
There were six or 8 of them and they already had him flat on the sidewalk. Nazi Gestapo Chickenshit masked scumbags.
Alt Nat'l Parks: It has been confirmed that Alex was a lawful gun owner and did not threaten ICE with a weapon. Early video reports indicate the weapon was taken by ICE and shots were then fired to execute him. Watching MAGA right now talk down the Second Amendment is interesting. They are trying to spin this in every way possible. In Trump’s America, the First, Second, and Fourth Amendment rights are now gone.
MAGA admin should hang for this. Nobody is buying the spin.
At least all the dirty jackasses who put it out there that ICE has complete immunity for everything should swing. Let's see: for starters, that's Bovino, ICE Barbie, and (drumroll) the Vice President. Not sure about the Toddler-in-Chief.
I pulled this from a guy on Facebook: Alex Pretti was holding a phone, not a gun. His crime? Trying to help a lady that agents shoved to the ground. So they killed him. He worked at the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves VETERANS. It was in his nature to HELP people.
I cannot add anything to what has already been said other than to confirm that it's all true. They had him down, that had his weapon and they still murdered him, firing multiple times.
"Helpful breakdown of what happened today from Rachel Hurley:
I’ve watched all of the videos dozens of times - here’s what happened. A 37-year-old ICU nurse named Alex Pretti helped a woman that federal agents had shoved. For this crime—helping someone—several agents sprayed pepper spray into his face. Then they beat him until he collapsed. They pistol whipped him while he was on his knees. Both hands on the ground. Not resisting. Just existing.
They took his gun from his back waistband—he never touched it—but he had a legal permit to carry. The Second Amendment one. The constitutional right one. And then they shot him.
After he was already down, already gone, they shot him nine more times. Nine. I want you to picture that. A man on the ground, motionless, and nine more bullets.
This is the same government that told us he was a “criminal illegal alien with a string of violent offenses.” He was an American citizen. He was a nurse who worked in the ICU at the VA - the guy who takes care of your grandfather who served in Vietnam, your uncle who came back from Iraq. His criminal record was traffic tickets.
They lied. They executed him in broad daylight on an American street. And then they lied about who he was to make you feel okay about it.
This is the third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis in three weeks. Three weeks. Three people. One was a woman named Renée Good. One was a Venezuelan man shot in the leg.
And now Alex Pretti, American citizen, legal gun owner, VA nurse who spent his days caring for veterans, dead on the pavement at 26th and Nicollet because he tried to help someone.
The same government that wraps itself in “support our troops” shot the guy who actually supported our troops. Nine times. While he was on the ground. That’s the truth. Don’t believe any of the administration's lies about what happened."
(Adding: there have been 3 homicides in Minneapolis this year. Two of those were by the federal government. I'm not hopeful that that will be the end of it.)
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti
"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.
I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
"This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.
Video from the scene shows Pretti directing traffic on a street out of an area with agents around, then trying to help another person get up after she had been pushed to the ground by the agents. The agents then surround Pretti and shoot pepper spray into his face, then pull him to the ground from behind and hit him as he appears to be trying to keep his head off the ground. An agent appears to take a gun out of Pretti’s waistband during the struggle, then turns and leaves with it. A shot then stops Pretti’s movements, appearing to kill him, before nine more shots ring out, apparently as agents continued to fire into his body.
It looked like an execution.
After he was dead, the agents walked away, apparently making no effort to preserve the crime scene, which people on the street later tried to secure by walling it off with trash bins.
As journalist Philip Bump noted, administration officials didn’t even pretend to wait for more information before jumping straight to “the opponent of the state deserved it.”"
Where is our military?!? Their oath is to defend the nation against all enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC. Come on you pussies and do your job. ICE is nothing more than Trump's Gestapo.
Can the military act of their own volition? Or do they need a president/sec. of defense to give orders to go in?
My concern at this time is that as ice gets more outrageous, my homies ramp things up, Walz calls in the Guard, 47 brings in the military and declares another national emergency or whatever to suspend or call off the mid-terms. Just thinking out loud. Nevertheless we are determined and standing firm.
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I told you you were going to have blood on your hands. Slow down ICE or you're going to have more or another Kent State! If ICE wasn't there TWO American citizens would still be alive!!
This is total BS and the GOP's fault for not limiting Trumps private army.
DO something like limit their funding until they get proper training... something!! For god sakes they're killing Americans!!!!!
Is this worth not releasing the Epstein files?
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Alt Nat'l Parks:
It has been confirmed that Alex was a lawful gun owner and did not threaten ICE with a weapon. Early video reports indicate the weapon was taken by ICE and shots were then fired to execute him. Watching MAGA right now talk down the Second Amendment is interesting. They are trying to spin this in every way possible. In Trump’s America, the First, Second, and Fourth Amendment rights are now gone.
Ended up with masked gestapo hucksters killing our own.
MAGA admin should hang for this. Nobody is buying the spin.
I pulled this from a guy on Facebook:
Alex Pretti was holding a phone, not a gun. His crime? Trying to help a lady that agents shoved to the ground. So they killed him.
He worked at the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves VETERANS. It was in his nature to HELP people.
I’ve watched all of the videos dozens of times - here’s what happened.
A 37-year-old ICU nurse named Alex Pretti helped a woman that federal agents had shoved. For this crime—helping someone—several agents sprayed pepper spray into his face. Then they beat him until he collapsed. They pistol whipped him while he was on his knees. Both hands on the ground. Not resisting. Just existing.
They took his gun from his back waistband—he never touched it—but he had a legal permit to carry. The Second Amendment one. The constitutional right one.
And then they shot him.
After he was already down, already gone, they shot him nine more times. Nine. I want you to picture that. A man on the ground, motionless, and nine more bullets.
This is the same government that told us he was a “criminal illegal alien with a string of violent offenses.” He was an American citizen. He was a nurse who worked in the ICU at the VA - the guy who takes care of your grandfather who served in Vietnam, your uncle who came back from Iraq. His criminal record was traffic tickets.
They lied. They executed him in broad daylight on an American street. And then they lied about who he was to make you feel okay about it.
This is the third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis in three weeks. Three weeks. Three people. One was a woman named Renée Good. One was a Venezuelan man shot in the leg.
And now Alex Pretti, American citizen, legal gun owner, VA nurse who spent his days caring for veterans, dead on the pavement at 26th and Nicollet because he tried to help someone.
The same government that wraps itself in “support our troops” shot the guy who actually supported our troops. Nine times. While he was on the ground.
That’s the truth. Don’t believe any of the administration's lies about what happened."
(Adding: there have been 3 homicides in Minneapolis this year. Two of those were by the federal government. I'm not hopeful that that will be the end of it.)
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti
"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.
I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
"This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.
Video from the scene shows Pretti directing traffic on a street out of an area with agents around, then trying to help another person get up after she had been pushed to the ground by the agents. The agents then surround Pretti and shoot pepper spray into his face, then pull him to the ground from behind and hit him as he appears to be trying to keep his head off the ground. An agent appears to take a gun out of Pretti’s waistband during the struggle, then turns and leaves with it. A shot then stops Pretti’s movements, appearing to kill him, before nine more shots ring out, apparently as agents continued to fire into his body.
It looked like an execution.
After he was dead, the agents walked away, apparently making no effort to preserve the crime scene, which people on the street later tried to secure by walling it off with trash bins.
As journalist Philip Bump noted, administration officials didn’t even pretend to wait for more information before jumping straight to “the opponent of the state deserved it.”"
I am just sick and filled with rage.
Where is our military?!? Their oath is to defend the nation against all enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC. Come on you pussies and do your job. ICE is nothing more than Trump's Gestapo.
and so it went,
fuck peace,
rono
My concern at this time is that as ice gets more outrageous, my homies ramp things up, Walz calls in the Guard, 47 brings in the military and declares another national emergency or whatever to suspend or call off the mid-terms. Just thinking out loud. Nevertheless we are determined and standing firm.