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Welp there's new footage showing him in violent confrontation with ICE days prior. Doesn't mean he deserved to get shot of course but it means he intentionally put himself in that situation which changes up the narrative around the guy.
Alex Pretti was murdered.
Say it with me. This was no “shooting.”
And it’s going to keep happening again and again.
Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE
Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE
Since justice is dead, it’s time to get the shooters’ names out there. We all saw with our own eyes what happened.
Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE
Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE
I think Executed would be the correct term. The EXECUTED him while several agents held him down.
The very minute I read some synopsis on a news alert on my phone and saw that it was claimed that "he had a gun" I disbelieved that.
Even if he had a gun and he's on the ground and tried to get up? That justifies shooting "roughly 10" times?
He did have a gun.
He was being a responsible citizen, exercising his 2nd Amendment rights with a holstered weapon, in compliance with Minnesota law.
Gestapo thugs tackled and beat him, unholstered and removed the firearm from his side, and only then did they unload 9 bullets into him as he laid unarmed and beaten on the street.
But as you'll see, and as anyone who's ever paid attention to the 2A fascist assholes will know, they suddenly become hyper anti-gun the moment its someone they don't like exercising their rights.
That sure sounds like something the NRA should have an opinion about
The NRA exists solely for the profit of firearms manufacturers.
This won't hinder their sales,so the NRA won't care.
ICE murdered that man.
From here we have two paths:
One: Civility is eventually restored to government and these people are tried and convicted for their crimes.
Two: All out civil war.
We will not let ICE, Trump or any of these Nazis complete their agenda.
There's a third option: people don't resist and the regime does whatever it wants.
So far we've chosen that option.
One: Civility is eventually restored to government and these people are tried and convicted for their crimes.
Respectfully, that's an outcome, not a path to get there.
The MAGA shitheads won't just give up and let themselves be prosecuted. They won't stop appointing judges, they won't stop cheating on elections, they won't stop manipulating media, and they won't stop harassing, intimidating, and killing their opposition until someone makes them.
Something I was just made aware of: after shooting and killing Alex Pretti, ICE officers then stood back and shot him 5 more times.
I've read that Alex was a veteran. So he probably participated in overseas operations. He survived abroad against whoever he fought for his country, only to be executed in said country, in his own town, by what is probably a frustrated basement dweller without any more accomplishment in his life than insulting kids on CoD and gooning ten times a day.
Cite that claim. I'm not saying your wrong, but to my knowledge, he was a nurse working at a VA medical facility, rather than a veteran himself.
Edit: Found a brief biography: https://wisconsinwatch.org/2026/01/man-killed-by-border-patrol-officer-in-minneapolis-was-an-icu-nurse-who-grew-up-in-green-bay/
Boy Scouts, choir, high school, college, research scientist, nursing school, avid bike rider, new Audi. No mention of putting in 4+ years on a military career.
Doesn't matter to the MAGAts, they will just disobey the evidence of their eyes, as the party tells them.
It’s … predictable. The MAGA on my FB feed are all quiet. Not one single peep. They’ll ignore it until they’re given some talking points. Or they’ll just never mention it.
"I don't read propaganda" was one of the last things my mother said to me before we broke off communication for good. I don't associate with nazis or their supporters. And of course the irony is lost on her, that propaganda is the ONLY thing she consumes.
Everyone remember to keep getting more people onto Piefed and Lemmy (Voyager for Lemmy) along with Session, Signal, XMPP, Mastodon, Stoat, Pixelfed, etc etc. The more of us on here the better
Yep! Social media is deleting content. Reddit is deleting posts. Tiktok is now under Trump's finger.
This is just straight up murder. He shot man in the back a dozen times with no threat to his safety at all, this is AFTER they gang beat him to the ground for no reason. This is unacceptable.
Best video I've seen:
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qm2vi0/heres_your_proof_with_the_moment_of_truth_isolated/
Trump's Taliban doing summary street executions now.
Thugs checklist:
They are trying to scare you from exercising your 2nd amendment rights.
Everyone should have a gun when dealing with ice
Everyone should be heading to DC to strike/protest, but nobody is organizing on that scale yet because they think they can still turn it around with an election
He saved that woman's life, but I cannot imagine how she feels right now. I would be sick with survivor's guilt.
Republicans are hunting Americans. It's Republicans vs. America.
It's neoconfederates come to finish the job because the Civil War never fixed the core issue and just let it sulk until America no longer had a shared reality.
They shot him many times so he couldn't testify later against them. 1 shot, then a bunch for the kill.
public paramilitary execution.
"What the f*ck did you do?"
NEEDS to be embraced as a slogan with the same passion as "Let's Go Brandon"
It's the perfect Anti-ICE, Anti-Trump, Anti-Capitalist message.
It calls back to the decades of intelligent well educated Americans saying this was an inevitability given the obvious path we've been on.
We need to see the video he was making, you know, the one to hold the ICE agents accountable, the one they killed him for
Sooooo is it just Minnesota that’s going to oppose this gestapo shit? Or nah.
e: This is a picture of the Minnesota protests on 1/23/2025 which was posted in a NY Times article:
Source is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minnesota-businesses-protest-ice.html
People should do this ICE monitoring with swarms of FPV drones. That would really drive them crazy, plus you could stay a safe distance away.
How many more people have to be murdered before Congress act?
How many more innocent civilians have to die at the hands of the government before the elected representatives of those people take action?
The USA is descending into an authoritarian state and Congress is letting it happen.
They could end it whenever they want. This on them as well as criminals perpetrating these heinous crimes.