ICE SHOOTING

[BigAl99]

There is still alot to unpack here, but I sure wish he would have left that 9mm at home. Regardless as to whether he had a permit to carry or not (which he did.)

Aren't all the CC law's for this?   

Just saw the lady in Pink Video.
I guess I have to figure out what tyranny is, N95 masks are and this is law enforcement, I guess.

Hang in there PF

[purplefaithful]

Dr. Dimitri Drekonja, a friend and fellow colleague of Alex Pretti’s from the Minneapolis VA, described Pretti as a caring and funny ICU nurse who treated the hospital’s most critically ill veterans.

“He was a kind, friendly, jokey person,” Drekonja told the Minnesota Star Tribune.

“Regardless of which hospital you're in, taking a job in the ICU, it means that you're up for a challenge, and it means you're confident in your skills — because you're going to see the sickest people in the hospital, and some of your patients are going to die. You're going to have to have the personal skills with family, you're going to have the technical skills to try to keep their loved one alive.”

“He was great at it.”

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Pro-gun rights nonprofit 'deeply concerned' by shooting

The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, a nonprofit and lobbying group that opposes gun restrictions, said it is "deeply concerned" by the fatal shooting by a federal  Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis.

"Every peaceable Minnesotan has the right to keep and bear arms — including while attending protests, acting as observers, or exercising their First Amendment rights," the group's chair, Bryan Strawser, said in a statement. "These rights do not disappear when someone is lawfully armed, and they must be respected and protected at all times."

[purplefaithful]

Editorial | An ICE pause is the only path to peace
It’s not debatable after the latest fatal shooting.

By Editorial Board
The Minnesota Star Tribune


Minnesota is standing at a dangerous edge. After a third shooting involving federal immigration agents in less than three weeks, both the state and its largest city are trapped in a familiar and deeply corrosive moment. As of Saturday afternoon, key facts remain unsettled. That uncertainty is not incidental. It is destabilizing.

First, the obvious must be said. Residents and others who are staging protest in Minneapolis cannot allow anger, however justified, to tip into destruction. In the face of an ongoing federal presence widely experienced by residents as threatening and destabilizing, we all must respond with restraint and discipline. This city cannot afford to fracture.

We have lived through what happens when fear outruns facts. We must not fall into that trap again.

But our continued restraint will demand clarity. And clarity begins with facts — all of them — gathered openly, tested independently and shared fully with the public.

That means the shooting death of 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti on Saturday morning cannot be reviewed behind federal walls alone.

A joint investigation must be established immediately, with federal, state and local authorities granted equal access to evidence, witnesses, body camera footage and timelines. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and local law enforcement must be invited into a transparent partnership with federal investigators. Anything less will be read, fairly or not, as concealment.

Federal officials have argued after previous ICE-related shootings that internal review was sufficient. In a city still marked by unresolved trauma around police violence, that answer no longer holds. Transparency cannot be performative. It must be structural.

That transparency imperative leads directly to the second reality now confronting Minnesota: the growing call for ICE to leave the state. Gov. Tim Walz, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have all voiced versions of that demand.

What is not open to debate is this: The current ICE surge in Minnesota must be paused.

The stated mission of targeting the “worst of the worst” has collided with on-the-ground reality: fear rippling through neighborhoods, essential workers staying home, businesses disrupted and a city that increasingly feels under siege. Whatever limited enforcement gains may be occurring are being overwhelmed by the broader damage inflicted on civic life, public safety and trust in government.

An ICE pause would not represent abolition. It is governance. It is an acknowledgment that tactics producing sweeping disruption, mounting injury and now multiple civilian deaths are failing their own stated aims.

Get the facts out. All of them. Then halt current operations until clear standards, oversight mechanisms and limits are publicly defined and agreed upon. This is not about surrendering federal authority. It is about restoring legitimacy.

Minnesota is a proud state, and Minneapolis at the moment is showing remarkable restraint under immense strain. But that restraint is not infinite. This is the moment for unity — not silence. Members of Minnesota’s Republican congressional delegation are needed now. So are business leaders and institutional voices with access to federal power.

This surge will end eventually. The damage may not.

A pause is the only off-ramp left.

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Gun rights advocate analyzes video footage

Rob Doar, senior vice president of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus and a gun-rights advocate, has seen four citizen videos of Pretti being shot and gave the Minnesota Star Tribune a moment-by-moment account of what he saw.

“We saw  Mr. Pretti in the roadway, and then the … agents started moving toward him,” Doar began. “He started retreating at that point.”

An agent shoved a woman to the ground, “and while helping the woman off the ground, Mr. Pretti is pepper-sprayed and taken to the ground," he added.

At least a half-dozen agents closed in, and one agent appeared to be striking Mr. Pretti’s head or toward the upper part of his body.”

Doar said an agent in a gray jacket “moved in and placed his arm in the huddle [of bodies], and it looks like he retrieved a firearm from Mr. Pretti’s waist.”

Based on the videos, Doar summed up, “If Mr. Pretti was disarmed -- absent any of any other evidence of any risk to an officer, I don’t see how deadly force would be justified.”

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem characterized the presence of the man who was shot by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis today as a “violent riot.”

“I don’t know any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition, rather than a sign. This is a violent riot. We have someone showing up with weapons and are using them to assault law enforcement officers,” Noem said during a press conference in Washington, DC.

Noem did not directly respond to questions about whether the Minneapolis man Alex Pretti was disarmed prior to shots being fired. She also did not say at what point federal officers retrieved the gun.

[Waterboy]

I see another person was shot and killed by an ICE agent in South Mpls this morning. More to come on that one.

There is no justification for DHS/ICE coming in here in the scale they have and how they have attempted to do their jobs. I'm not convinced Noem/Potus are happy with how this has gone down and I strongly believe most of USA view it with concern, at least those that aren't deep Maga in their beliefs.

Again, this is NOT about illegal immigrants or not, ridding the country of the worst of the worst, this is about HOW ICE is doing their job in MN.

We simply want them to leave now.

The whole macro picture in this country is a big olde swirl of the same shit imo. Like a turd going down the toilet the morning after a big Taco Bell dinner. These are the same issues /differences our country has been dealing with for a long time now.

ITs just amplified with social media and the overall temp in the country is hotter with a potus who leads with agitation and disruption (domestically and globally). I mean who would have ever thought an American President would call out a whole race of people, label them garbage and tell them to leave? It's just insanity. And it's shameful that nobody on that side of the aisle said one word. Not even the Republicans here in Minny.

Yup, I'm with you in hoping for peace in Minny soon and thoughts/prayers to the next city in the cross-hairs. It's just a matter of where/when. We wont have a dog in the next fight, but we in MN will do what we can to support em.

Respectfully Purple, this is 100% people disobeying the laws and law enforcement.  Normally, I have some compassion in a situation like this, but the guy came armed with 2 magazines and interrupted law enforcement. What in the hell does anybody think was going to happen?  If it isn’t this dumb ass, it’s just another one who one ups him that gets shot next.  When you let rioters win, you lose your society. These are people being whipped into a frenzy by lawmakers trying to hide their fraud and quid pro quo arrangements with minorities. Time for the insurrection act and to quadruple ICE. If this is unpopular politically, it’s only because the media and corrupt politicians win the day again.

[JimmyinSD]

seriously though,  ICE has been doing arrests in SD and many many other states with cooperation of the local LEOs and they are in and out before anyone even realizes something is up,  but in MN and I am sure some other blue locations,  there are protesters already lines up when they show up to do their jobs in residential neighborhoods.... who the hell doesnt find this odd?  I would think that ICE is still communicating their targets to local LEOS,  are these targets getting leaked ahead of time,   is there a massive communications taking place to keep the protesters 1 step ahead,  or do the locals already know where these people are living and the protesters are just quicker to those locations?

something is screwy.

[savannahskol]

seriously though,  ICE has been doing arrests in SD and many many other states with cooperation of the local LEOs and they are in and out before anyone even realizes something is up,  but in MN and I am sure some other blue locations,  there are protesters already lines up when they show up to do their jobs in residential neighborhoods.... who the hell doesnt find this odd?  I would think that ICE is still communicating their targets to local LEOS,  are these targets getting leaked ahead of time,   is there a massive communications taking place to keep the protesters 1 step ahead,  or do the locals already know where these people are living and the protesters are just quicker to those locations?

something is screwy.

 And new video from Nurse Pretti from about a week prior to his demise, shows him armed and arguing and screaming at another street ICE attempt to arrest an illegal.  Pretti seen spitting at ICE officer and kicking Their vehicle.

[JimmyinSD]

 And new video from Nurse Pretti from about a week prior to his demise, shows him armed and arguing and screaming at another street ICE attempt to arrest an illegal.  Pretti seen spitting at ICE officer and kicking Their vehicle.

Instead of blaming ice or Trump,  I put it squarely on every politician in the past that did nothing to secure our borders,   every elected official in MN that didnt call out the sanctuary bull shit and especially those that have told their LEOs to stand down and not help the feds enforce the laws of our nation, because they dont like Trump or the Republicans.  They are the one that caused the issue and escalated it to the point of radicalization and eventually violence and deaths.

[savannahskol]

Better audio here.

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/2...8315593760

Sad