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boatbuilder చెప్పారు...: ...secured a handgun he was carrying MOMENTS BEFORE shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of videos that captured the incident from several angles.

Do you think maybe this could be a clue that the WaPo is perhaps being a tad disingenuous in their reporting?

One conclusion which could be drawn from your posting this is that you are a little dim and easily led. But I don't think that's the reason.; 25-01-26 9:17 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Kakistocracy said...

Every camera angle shows the same thing: a pure, vicious, and unjustified execution.

Perfect.

You have your bloody shirt. Now get your ass out there and fight the revolution you worthless tool.

Nobody wants a coward. Stop being a coward and avenge your hero. If you wont fight go to a different country without MAGA Nazis in it.; 25-01-26 9:22 AM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: This is how the Brownshirts operated in Germany in the 1930s. It’s a disgrace that this is happening in the United States.; 25-01-26 9:24 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Kak - so you are saying that arresting illegal criminal aliens - who broke our immigration laws and more - are untouchable.
Because they will vote D.; 25-01-26 9:33 AM
boatbuilder చెప్పారు...: Chuck--you've seen the videos. What information does the NYT conveniently leave out?
a) Pretti for some unexplained reason grabs the female with the backpack and violently hauls her to the ground, into the Border Patrol officers;
b) Pretti is initially on the ground and then either gets up to his knee or is hauled up by the agents (hard to tell) immediately before the shots.

Do you think either of these facts is significant?
Do you wonder why the NYT left them out?
Aren't you curious?; 25-01-26 9:35 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Kakistocracy said...

This is how the Brownshirts operated in Germany in the 1930s. It’s a disgrace that this is happening in the United States.

And here you are whining and complaining.

You are such a coward.; 25-01-26 9:37 AM
Leland చెప్పారు...: Every camera angle shows the same thing

Oh good, the body cam footage is out then. Care to share a link?; 25-01-26 9:38 AM
wendybar చెప్పారు...: All fake businesses at 1 address. Oh boy are they going down...(at least they SHOULD be)

DataRepublican (small r)
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Took a look, and OMG... 184 NPIs at 2614 Nicollet.

That's just health care providers. Not including child care. And none of them are on an exclusion list. @DOGE_HHS x.com/TheGreenOldDil…

https://x.com/JRobFromMN/status/2015387140042244307?s=20; 25-01-26 9:39 AM
Mark చెప్పారు...: " Pretti for some unexplained reason"
ICE just sprayed his face with tear gas from a couple feet away.

Plenty of explanation if you watch the whole situation unfold, just no excuse for the aggro ICE agents unprofessional emotional actions.; 25-01-26 9:39 AM
Narr చెప్పారు...: I'm just here to make it 200.

And to suggest that King George the Eleventy-first was one of the better of the Elevenists.; 25-01-26 9:40 AM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: Whether it's protesters filming ICE agents or ICE agents murdering protesters, there's plenty to criticize on both sides.; 25-01-26 9:46 AM
boatbuilder చెప్పారు...: What would happen if in, back in 2017 or 2019, you lived in the same building as Paul Manafort or Roger Stone, and you got wind that the FBI was going to raid his apartment during the early morning hours, so you got together with a few friends and blocked the FBI vehicles with your cars and blew whistles loudly in their faces? What if you did it in 2021 when the DOJ was arresting alleged J6 participants?; 25-01-26 9:48 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Mark - Why are leftists allowed to obstruct what law enforcement are doing?
Why was Pretti even there?
Why did he bring his gun?; 25-01-26 9:55 AM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: It's not just that they're killing peaceful protesters—it's that they then step in front of the cameras and openly lie about it, slandering the victims by insisting that what we can clearly see on video never happened.

Trump’s deployment of ICE to the city is essentially an experiment: a deliberate White House effort to test the limits—how far they can push and what resistance they’ll face—in their broader push to expand presidential power.

But Minnesotans are showing they won’t bend the knee. And that defiance is genuinely unsettling to them.; 25-01-26 10:01 AM
Beasts of England చెప్పారు...: ’And here you are whining and complaining.’

He’s just another Walz: willing to sacrifice the lives of others to advance his politics. I’m guessing equally flouncy, too.; 25-01-26 10:02 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: You would get shot for your troubles; 25-01-26 10:04 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: “Walz just said ‘quit referring to these people as law enforcement.’”

Insurrection talk.; 25-01-26 10:05 AM
Mark చెప్పారు...: "Why are leftists allowed to obstruct what law enforcement are doing?"
I see no law enforcement activity he could be obstructing.

Being on the street is a legal activity.; 25-01-26 10:07 AM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: I can see with my own eyes how quickly democracy is unraveling. Minneapolis is ground zero for Trump's version of the new American order and a testing ground for what will likely be happening in other blue cities around the country soon. We will lose democracy if we don't stand up and fight for our freedoms now.; 25-01-26 10:07 AM
Beasts of England చెప్పారు...: ’…how far they can push and what resistance they’ll face…’

Odd how the resistance exists in only one state. And the enforcement of laws is not an expansion of power, it’s a proper role of the executive branch. On the bright side: there’s still time for you to get to Minnesota, Brave Sir Kak!!; 25-01-26 10:08 AM
Breezy చెప్పారు...: Random people protesters have no clue how law enforcement agents are trained. If they did, they wouldn’t want to be anywhere near them, threatening or resisting, with an undeclared weapon. I doubt random people have even given a thought about the depth of danger they are putting themselves in when they do this.

This may very well have been accidental or unjustified in a traditional narrow sense, but justified nonetheless given the complexities of the event, including the whistling that hampered hearing, the instigating attempt to box in LE, the pepper spray not working as a deterrent (why was that?), the two women in close proximity, the violent resistance by the victim who somehow managed to not get pinned down with five agents trying to corral him (how was that possible?) and the undeclared weapon.; 25-01-26 10:09 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: "being on the street"
LOL - you really are bad at this.

So you are saying he was just standing there, minding his own business.; 25-01-26 10:10 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: You dedicated leftists as sick. He had a gun and he was part of a Walzian thuggish political army - sent to stop ICE agents from doing their jobs.; 25-01-26 10:12 AM
Jaq చెప్పారు...: Kak is just throwing out boob bait. He is trying to blunt the Brownshirt analogy because these protesters are acting int he same way that the Brownshirts acted, creating an air of violence and civil unrest around the people who opposed them. Germany was a liberal democracy prior to the introduction of mass propaganda and these Brownshirt tactics by the Nazis.

In a way, you could just say that Kak is throwing out boob bait, but it's more studied than that, I think.; 25-01-26 10:16 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: MN:
'Signal messaging groups are what activists use to coordinate their efforts. ... stunning in sophistication. These aren't just angry citizens showing up to protest. This is a well-oiled machine running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The groups use emojis next to members' names to denote specific roles. You've got mobile patrols driving around searching for federal vehicles. Foot patrols are working the streets. Dispatchers are running constant calls directing people where ICE has been spotted and how best to interfere with their operations. License plate checkers maintain databases of known federal vehicles. Even medics are standing by. They're running shift changes, clocking in and out, just like any organized operation.'

All to stop the enforcement of federal immigration laws.; 25-01-26 10:17 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: I told rich to put away the brown acid; 25-01-26 10:17 AM
Breezy చెప్పారు...: “Minneapolis is ground zero for Trump's version of the new American order and a testing ground for what will likely be happening in other blue cities around the country soon.“.

I believe you have this backwards. No other city, blue or not, is exhibiting this resistance behavior. Why is that? No other city wants the chaos, or at least sees it as a bad thing for their political popularity. MN has a 100k strong Somali voting block that is ripe with fraud, enabled by local leaders. The safe guarding of that block, Democrat cash, and the freedom of all involved is real. IMHO.; 25-01-26 10:18 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: "Each area of Minneapolis has its own group chat, with the city carved up into patrol zones that tell activists exactly where to operate. The chats max out at 1,000 members by midday and get deleted and recreated daily to avoid detection."; 25-01-26 10:18 AM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: Here is a gift link for everyone:
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe1e488?st=N9ph6r&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents ~ WSJ
"See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday"

Better headline:
“Video Proves DHS Lied about its Latest Murder.”; 25-01-26 10:19 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: 'These rage-fueled Walzian people track federal agents all night long. ... captured screenshots at 2 a.m. show leftist dispatchers calling for observers at locations with potential targets.

They even use a military-style system called SALUTE."; 25-01-26 10:20 AM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: Beast at 8:48; “ Again, I have no desired outcome in this case, but I do have a few preferences: that people don’t get shot, that elected officials don’t encourage interference with law enforcement officers, that protestors remain several yards away from those officers, and that cities and states cooperate with ICE.”

This gets to the core of the debate. I and many others don’t see this typical law enforcement but rather fulfilling Trump’s repeated admissions of political retaliation.

It doesn’t really help your case when the entire operation was built on the lie of criminals released from foreign prisons.

Boatbuilder at somewhere back there, I never offered the WAPO article as proof of anything. I simply said they reported it.; 25-01-26 10:20 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.; 25-01-26 10:20 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Kakistocracy said...

I can see with my own eyes how quickly democracy is unraveling. Minneapolis is ground zero for Trump's version of the new American order and a testing ground for what will likely be happening in other blue cities around the country soon. We will lose democracy if we don't stand up and fight for our freedoms now.

You already lost your democracy. You lost it when Trump won the election.

Your democracy only worked with illegal immigrant voters voting for democrats by mail.

This is our democracy where illegal immigrants get deported and insurrectionist fucks like you get defeated.; 25-01-26 10:21 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Alex Pretti was a member of the Kingfield Signal ICE watch group. Jeanne Massey, who coordinates rapid response for these networks, confirmed Pretti's involvement. She describes her role as patrolling neighborhoods when ICE is spotted, alerting residents, and witnessing what she calls the "horror" of enforcement operations. After Pretti was shot, Massey rushed to the scene along with many other Minneapolis residents. She claims she watched ICE officers charge into the crowd and deploy tear gas against people who had gathered there.; 25-01-26 10:21 AM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: When the Nazis have even lost Murdoch's Wall Street Journal; 25-01-26 10:21 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: "Speaking on behalf of neighbors, Massey says the community is "horrified" and "furious" about Pretti's killing. "Let me be clear: we are horrified, we are furious, and we are not going to pretend this is anything but what it is - another senseless act of violence carried out by federal agents in our city," she said.

What Massey conveniently leaves out is what Pretti was doing there in the first place. He showed up at an active federal law enforcement operation carrying a loaded weapon and extra ammunition. Video footage shows Border Patrol agents attempting to disarm him before the fatal shooting.

Yes, he worked as an ICU nurse, but he also chose to involve himself in organized resistance against immigration enforcement, armed and ready for confrontation."; 25-01-26 10:23 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Kak-bot - the real Nazis built a network of nazi-like preparations to halt the legal actions of ICE.; 25-01-26 10:24 AM
Breezy చెప్పారు...: Trump is doing what he promised he would do. Most of us agreed this needs to be done and voted for him. The resistance/temper tantrum is then more fundamentally against the majority of people who voted for Trump, not Trump himself.; 25-01-26 10:25 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: "The left wants you to see this as federal overreach. The reality is that these networks have created a dangerous environment in which activists deliberately interfere with law enforcement operations. They track agents around the clock, follow them, confront them, harass them, and apparently sometimes show up armed. Then they act shocked when agents act in self-defense and things turn deadly."; 25-01-26 10:26 AM
Gospace చెప్పారు...: Did Pretti have a concealed carry permit? Yes. Whether or not one should be required to have one is another question to which the answer is no, but it's MN. So let's go with it- he was licensed to carry.

Was he legally carrying? No. Apparently he had no ID on his body. MN law governing that required permit is government ID must be carried along with the weapon. Ooops- he was a lawbreaker carrying the weapon. Also- the law requires the actual permit be with you when carrying. Ooops! He didn't have that either. Lawbreaker! And true everywhere- you're not carrying legally if you're engaged in ANY criminal activity, like interfering with federal agents in the performance of their duty. Strike 3. It's totally immaterial that he was licensed to carry if he he wasn't following the law on licensed carry.

There's also clear evidence he was part of a (MASSIVE!) conspiracy to obstruct federal law enforcement. There appears to be a rather sophisticate spotting operation run on Signal chat groups dispatching people to ICE locations. "Alex Pretti was a member of the Kingfield Signal ICE watch group. Jeanne Massey, who coordinates rapid response for these networks, confirmed Pretti's involvement." So this is not a spontaneous gathering of like minded people- it's an organized uprising. And that kind of organizing has money behind it. Money from whom is the question.; 25-01-26 10:28 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Gospace.

But leftists are not required to follow any laws.
Just look at Tim Walz. He is a total criminal in every direction and he rules the state with an iron fist.; 25-01-26 10:30 AM
Meade చెప్పారు...: Hated seeing my Boilers go down but WOW this kid is a gift from the gods!
https://youtu.be/IOXQgB2hEFE?si=cvnU1c69EMuftKiZ; 25-01-26 10:35 AM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: At this point, the only thing stopping the Democrats from running the table in the next two election cycles is the Democrats.; 25-01-26 10:37 AM
Sweetie చెప్పారు...: I think the gun and the magazines are two different issues. You bring a gun, you're looking for violence. You bring extra magazines you're looking for a war.
You stop this by debanking everyone on the streets. Scoop up their cell phone data and start making calls to the banks like the Biden administration did. Biden debanked a former POTUS so it's all good.; 25-01-26 10:38 AM
boatbuilder చెప్పారు...: Boatbuilder at somewhere back there, I never offered the WAPO article as proof of anything. I simply said they reported it.
LOL. What a weasel you are!
That is your standard "run away" tactic. You post something as allegedly authoritative, and then claim that you didn't mean anything by it.
You read it. You posted it. Didn't the "...moments after..." phrase trigger a "maybe I'm being bullshitted" reaction?
If it didn't, you are even dumber than I think you are. Which is pretty damn dumb.; 25-01-26 10:38 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Communists. Leftist Neo-fascist above the law - types.

I thought no one was above the law?; 25-01-26 10:39 AM
Jim Howard చెప్పారు...: "This 42 days of training allows them to shoot someone in the face for protesting," I am surprised and shocked that any lawyer would make such an outrageous claim. It's that kind of hate and stupidity that are getting young people killed when they are told "get in the face of cops". Nobody has been 'shot in the face for protesting' in this country. Now in places like Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela until recently that kind of thing is routine. But liberals love those places.; 25-01-26 10:42 AM
Jim Howard చెప్పారు...: Here in Austin temperatures dropped into the mid-20s and we have about a quarter-inch of white sleet and snow. The city has shut down and people are snow skiing on Congress avenue (our main downtown street).; 25-01-26 10:46 AM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: Boatbuilder, I posted it because of the video and I made a statement of unless the vid was fake or edited, it looked damning. I knew the messenger would likely be rejected because of the messenger rather than the content.; 25-01-26 10:47 AM
Kakistocracy చెప్పారు...: Sweetie writes: "I think the gun and the magazines are two different issues. You bring a gun, you're looking for violence. You bring extra magazines you're looking for a war."

The problem with your thought process is the fact that BP/ICE disarmed Pretti prior to shooting him 10 times.

Video shows an agent taking Pretti's firearm away from him in the scuffle. To be clear, an unarmed man laying on the ground was shot multiple times by several officers.; 25-01-26 10:51 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: This is where the leftist neo-fascist networks all started. Just call yourself a not-nazi - while you act like a real nazi.
chuck and mark and all you dedicated D's who lust for power over others.; 25-01-26 10:51 AM
narciso చెప్పారు...: https://x.com/zerohedge/status/2015458352831037473; 25-01-26 10:52 AM
Peachy చెప్పారు...: Kak - you do not know that for a fact. At this point - it's speculation.
And you skip right past the neo-leftist reason he was there at all. With a GUN.; 25-01-26 10:52 AM
Aggie చెప్పారు...: "... "Alex Pretti was a member of the Kingfield Signal ICE watch group. Jeanne Massey, who coordinates rapid response for these networks, confirmed Pretti's involvement." So this is not a spontaneous gathering of like minded people- it's an organized uprising...."

It's all good fun, until somebody loses an eye.; 25-01-26 10:53 AM
Achilles చెప్పారు...: Kakistocracy said...

Sweetie writes: "I think the gun and the magazines are two different issues. You bring a gun, you're looking for violence. You bring extra magazines you're looking for a war."

The problem with your thought process is the fact that BP/ICE disarmed Pretti prior to shooting him 10 times.

Because people never carry more than one gun.

It is sad to watch you wallow in the blood of dead martyrs.

You are such a deranged piece of shit.; 25-01-26 10:58 AM
Yancey Ward చెప్పారు...: A simple question for RJW, Gadfly, and Kak:

Would you feel perfectly happy to have your child approach the BP agents in the street the way Pretti did? I already know you wouldn't do it yourself, right?; 25-01-26 11:06 AM
Beasts of England చెప్పారు...: ’I and many others don’t see this typical law enforcement but rather fulfilling Trump’s repeated admissions of political retaliation.’

The enforcement is happening across many states. And if Minnesota had cooperated with ICE then it wouldn’t be an issue. This is the responsibility of their elected officials, regardless of how it’s characterized.

It doesn’t really help your case when the entire operation was built on the lie of criminals released from foreign prisons.’

It’s not my case, it’s the law of the land, so stop with the false attribution. Whether the operation was built on your alleged lie or not, it is immaterial to enforcing our laws.; 25-01-26 11:35 AM
Ronald J. Ward చెప్పారు...: My apologies for the bad choice of words Beast. Not “your” case. Got it.

“ The enforcement is happening across many states. And if Minnesota had cooperated with ICE then it wouldn’t be an issue. This is the responsibility of their elected officials, regardless of how it’s characterized.”

I hear the JD Vance quote that’s been channeled through PowerLine et al and while it’s rhetorically powerful, it’s analytically very weak.

It’s one thing to say cooperation can make enforcement smoother. It’s another to claim Walz or Frey could have prevented controversy entirely. Federal agents were operating under their own authority, and local officials are responding to public safety concerns and deaths that have already happened — not manufactured chaos. Coordination helps, but it doesn’t erase responsibility for controversial federal tactics.

Despite what these echo chambers tell you, Minnesota protests have been mainly calm and riot free.; 25-01-26 1:16 PM
donald చెప్పారు...: Walz, Frey, and Ellison and Omar all guilty of massive state and federal fraud. They’ve trampled on citizen’s civil rights, and now they’re trying to jump start a civil war. Why? Because they’re basic scumbag their politicians and they’re caught.; 25-01-26 5:14 PM

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