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Video contradicts Trump administration account of Minneapolis killing of Alex Pretti (www.motherjones.com)

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This was an execution.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

This is Fort Sumter, 2.0

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago

he said that the situation is “evolving” and would be investigated “just like we have done over the past several years.”

Contrary to Bovino’s claims, there is no reason to believe that the Trump administration will conduct a legitimate investigation of Saturday’s shooting.

That’s not what he said. He said the investigation would be the same as how they’ve been done over the past several years. I don’t recall any real investigations in the past several years.

[–] ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's no case for self defence here. These guys weren't fearing for their lives and the situation was under control. There was even a spare ICE agent available to raise his arm and block people from coming any closer to the scene before they did the execution.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Also the video clearly shows the goons harrassing a lady which is what made the victim get involved.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Video contradicts another lie that is good by liars.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can someone link video for me? I'm not opening up x.com

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can find them all here. There are quite a few angles and it’s abundantly clear that that was premeditated murder.

https://crimesofice.org/videos.php

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeahhhhhh

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Two side by side photos. On the left a famous historical photo of a Ukrainian Jew being executed by Nazi Einsatzgruppen, on the left is the 2026 murder of Alex Pretti by Donald Trump’s ICE agents. The two images look strikingly similar, down to the poses and the clear, deliberate, premeditated execution of an unarmed prisoner

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Idk what else to say man. Gonna go distract myself from the impending doom

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Go meet up with orgs that oppose and start building solidarity.

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

Its incredibly graphic. Much more so than the videos of Renee Goods murder.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

The same tactics Israel has applied for decades on the Palestinians.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

“Trump admin creates lies about Pretti’s execution despite multiple videos clearly showing what happened.”

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Looks to me that guy with a green jacket behind the victim took out his gun PRIOR to the shots, which makes me think he fired the first shot. Also telling that he did not react the shots like the other ICE goons.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One guy was swinging his arm in huge circles whacking him underhanded with what looked to be a gun or a taser but on watching a different video he didn't seem to be the first one to fire

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not to defend him but looking closer at that part, i think he was whacking him with a pepper spray. That same goon later takes his gun out, which means he was not using it to hit the victim, and unloads his gun on the dead body, he also flinched before taking the gun out so i think he did not shoot first. I still mantain the green jacket ski mask guy started it.

[+] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -28 points 3 months ago (12 children)

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If they pull a gun off of you and you continue to be non-compliant it is not unreasonable for them to assume you could have another weapon

Why is that not unreasonable? I mean, by that logic why bother with step one? Why not just assume anyone who is resisting has a weapon and murder them?

[–] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this really the comment you want to be making at a time like this? ICE has, on camera, in the streets, executed two people. They've kidnapped at least two elementary school children, that we know of, and probably many more. They've killed several people in custody, but since there aren't multiple video angles of those deaths, those deaths aren't getting the same play on the internet.

And this is the context in which you want to blame ICE's victim for getting shot? Really? What's wrong with you?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

worthless coward scum, the victim clearly got involved because the goons were harassing a lady and shoved her hard/

[+] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

If they were shoving her it's because they saw her as a threat. I only saw maybe 10 seconds of that interaction so maybe it was justified or maybe it was complete overreach on their part. Regardless it's clear they wanted her out of the way and/or on the ground. I'm not saying it's right. I'm saying they have the guns and the power of the state behind them. Don't get involved. Especially if you are carrying a deadly weapon.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

"If they did it there must be a good reason"

Who will wash the brains of these people

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

You subservient, cowardly little slime. Lower than the lowest animal.

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know this person can't respond but I want to make an important point for the people reading this.

You absolutely are saying it's right. You say that ICE was harassing a woman because they felt it was necessary, with no interrogation of what that actually means. As if ICE can only react rationally to what they perceive as threats, as if ICE can soberly and rationally perceive threats. Then you frame the shooting as an almost mechanical consequence, like that of a ball rolling down hill due to physical forces, of state power interacting with perceived hostility. Again this is without critical thought of what that truly means and assumes the state is just a rational actor abiding by some rational law, of which the victims failed to account. You're essentially saying it's like standing in front a freight train running at full speed. The nascent law of the universe says that the human sized object will be obliterated if they don't respect the kinetic energy of the multi-ton behemoth. Therefore it's kinda their fault for not stepping out of the way. Painting these human actions as some natural system of mechanics is endorsing it as the rule of nature. You are saying it's right because to go against it is to fight against the inevitability of nature.

None of this was inevitable. It's not the result of natural laws. It's not a Rube Goldberg machine that is impossible to stop once it's in motion. It is an intentional, manufactured outcome. It's an intentional decision by the leaders of the state to not intervene in protecting its citizens. It's an intentional decision by the leaders of the federal state to point untrained, highly ideological murderers at the citizenry to make a political statement. It is an intentional, multi-generational effort to make sure citizens are as defenseless as possible with the least amount of oversight or input into the state. These things culminate in yesterday's events. It is nothing to do with the individual decisions of Alex or the person he was defending. To frame it like their individual decisions is just as much a cause as the historical confluence of class struggle is morally repugnant and lacks any intellectual merit.

[–] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

This comment is extremely well said and gets at something very deep and important. Thank you for saying it so well and I hope more eyes read it. In every case I've seen of fascist sympathizers (aka fascists who aren't wearing boots yet) justifying the crimes of ICE, or regular cops, or whatever bourgeois institution murdering workers, they frame it in a way that the perpetrators of these crimes are a simple force of nature, a physical law, exactly like you said, rather than the outcomes of those cop's choices, just as arbitrary if not more so as the choices made by their victims. They'll say "that person made the CHOICE to challenge the cops/ICE/institutional power, and that choice resulted in an expected outcome, their death," blaming the victim. And they'll call it "logic" like this fucking bootlicking loser who is now banned. But it's never framed the other way around. They'll never frame it as the result of the choices made by ICE/cops, where the response to their violence and oppression is the natural force, even though it's just as valid of a framework. There are fascists with institutional authority who are making arbitrary decisions about who they want to murder, whether it was a planned out operation, or a choice made in the moment when they executed some "uppity" civilian. Of course there are going to be people who challenge them, it is a natural consequence (like a physical law) resulting from the pressure created by the choice fascists have made to oppress people. There will be those who resist, inevitably, and there will be those who are no threat but get murdered anyway - by definition a natural consequence of fascists with power. The bootlicking fascist-sympathizing logic-enjoyers want to make everything that happens some deterministic series of events (your reference to a Rube Golberg Machine being the chef's kiss perfect analogy) but they'll sob and cry foul the second one of those institutional fascists gets the inevitable natural consequence of what's coming to them. Once that third law of motion kicks in they're going to forget all about "natural consequences."

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Reddit is for licking jackboot. This is lemmy.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

You don't understand what ICE is doing, you stupid fucking dipshit

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

Chew glass.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

And what will you do when ICE are patrolling the polling stations to stop "illegals" from voting? Better not argue with them for your right to vote, that's how you end up in a body bag.

[–] InternetLefty@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Stupid motherfucker alert!!!

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

If a rabid pit bull was out in the streets attacking the elderly and children, ripping their faces off, you'd be telling everyone to just stay back and make soothing sounds, or offer it a treat, rather than trying to stop it before it does more damage. Self-reflect a little bit and do better next time.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Drink bleach

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

These guys always bring out the possibility of another weapon like it justifies cowardice. Deal with what is there's not what might be there.

It's like dealing with children you lack so much awareness