The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”
In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone.
Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared “to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk” and showed the shooting at a closer distance than the footage taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts.
In the video, the shooting victim, dressed in a brown coat and pants, is seen filming a federal agent with his phone. He’s then seen guiding another person toward the sidewalk as the agent forcefully shoves a third person to the ground.
Doesn’t matter to the MAGAts, they will just disobey the evidence of their eyes, as the party tells them.
This will become the next election-fraud-style loyalty test. If you state publicly that you don’t see manslaughter in the video, you’ve proven your loyalty to the great leader.
You guys are so screwed, even here on Lemmy im getting comments removed for inciting violence against ice agents. You guys aren’t even allowed to speak about rising up
Republicans are hunting Americans. It’s Republicans vs. America.
They are MAGA. The Republican Party is dead, that was just the larval stage, before it morphed into its final form - MAGA. We should only refer to the Republican Party from a historical or scholarly perspective.
They are ALL MAGA now.
Things I thought I’d never say: I miss the Republicans of the eighties. They were all a mix of absolute cowards, grifters, and idiots, but the new MAGA party that has replaced them manages to consistently be even worse.
The difference was that the 80s Republican politicians still loved America. MAGA politicians are all Sociopathic Oligarchs or their flunkies, and they hate America, and ONLY see it as a fat, rich, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited in every possible way.
80s Republicans were narcissistic patriots, MAGAs are narcissistic and corrupt traitors, rapists, pedophiles, racists, ignorant, incompetent and CRIMINALS.
We need socialism
Time to study and read socialist theory. Seriously! https://redsails.org/
Time to organize
Ten of them for every one of us, that’s all I’m saying.
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.
Trying
All good we got this. Whatever person we get on is a huge thing to the movement. Also stay well Buller!
I joined today, so the exposure(reddit comment in my case) definately helps!
Welcome to the movement and Lemmy/Piefed (depending on which you use) Lolidan! Get comfy we in for bumpy ride
Welcome to the free world brother!
Just bear in mind that many Fediverse instances are in Europe and Europe has no free speech culture. EG In Germany, people who upload videos of police are commonly prosecuted for GDPR violations. It violates the fundamental rights of the police officers. When European activists oppose Big Tech in the name of democracy, they want more censorship; more government control.
Oh piss off. We have legislation against hate speech. You know because it led to millions of deaths in our continent. The disgraceful state of your country is a direct consequence of your asinine interpretations about free speech.
Please dont boil it down to this. It is perfectly legal to post videos of police in Germany, you just have to obscure the faces of all people in the video that did not consent to it being publicy available. Furthermore, the spoken word has additonal protections in place. Yes, the european data protection legislation can be difficult to navigate, but bear in mind that it focuses on the personal rights of ALL people, even police. However there is still the possibility to publish material unedited if it has cultural or historical significance. Of couse this would go to court, but hey: At least we have courts to settle those matters transparently. KG Berlin – Az.: 2 ORs 31/23 – 121 Ss 130/23 – Urteil vom 30.11.2023
Right. Merely making the recording may already be criminal; not only sharing it. I didn’t want to sound too alarmist. But when we’re ad it. Pixelating the faces means processing personal data which may already be illegal.
What it boils down to is this: If some lawless government goons arrest anyone recording their deeds and seized their phones, no honest, law-abiding judge or police officer would see a problem with that. Anyone live-streaming, just in case, would be guilty of violating fundamental rights in the eyes of all defenders of European values. The government could rely on the technical and organizational infrastructure to enforce GDPR to suppress inconvenient videos without bending the law.
But no problem. Freedom of information is in the constitution. So you just go to court and insist on your right. Of course, a far right government will have packed the highest courts with its people, and so you lose. Well, everyone has rights. Freedom of information isn’t everything. No problem there.
You pretty much just described what’s happened in America, headquarters for “It can’t happen here.” It can, it did, and it will happen in Europe when someone decides that “fairness” in any law or policy is an excuse to exploit the shit out of it.
You clearly have no legal training and know nothing about EU law or the national legal systems of its members, many which go back to ancient Roman law.
Go back to school, JD.
JD, is that you?
EU have a freedom of expression law and multiple countries also have constitutional freedom of speech, including right to film police
Germany is also rather unique in having laws with opaque interpretations
https://digit.site36.net/2023/01/31/police-violence-in-germany-misuse-of-wiretapping-paragraph/
Derp
The so-called activists you are exposed to that are backed by powerful interests do indeed try to get more censorship.
They have plenty of real activists I would add just as an aside, the ones fighting chat control and age checks and other such Trojan horses they are trying to bring inside to rat fuck the internet.
It is just we are fighting organized monied groups as disparate peoples, so the organized efforts to id every ip and account in europe with id and likeness and run it all through ai threat detection owned by palantir types to make secret social scores that will secretly determine everything from your job prospects, police attention, loans, to prices charged and even what info search engines show you, that all seems like activist groups because we have at most banded into public interest groups fighting rearguard and woeking disparatly off of guerilla reporters’ scoops,while they have a well funded and orchestrated plan using groups like protecct the children with studies they commission and lawmakers they leased and media they are in league with or indeed own.
It is tech behind a lot of it. Even opposing big tech, is oftentimes schemes to surrender to big tech, as is chatcontrol and age checks.
People forget that the earth is a world of chaos where the biggest free for all in all of our universe, that we know of, exists.
The fact that humans tried to impose a fake order in that chaos is just an anomaly.
Embrace chaos.
Ooohhh! Teen angst making a comeback. How serious. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the one guy in the universe who knows absolutely everything just showed us a beacon of truth that we can all one day hope to understand. God like, I tell 'ya! God like!
You are ignorant despite how smart you think you are. You are only alive because of the lack of chaos displayed by your cells and tissues . Get a spine and fight for what you believe in.
I really hope you’re high as fuck right now.
Come back down to earth, friend.
Sooooo is it just Minnesota that’s going to oppose this gestapo shit? Or nah.
You couldn’t write what this is a picture of?
And maybe provide a source!Oh my god, that is dense. Seems like a hazard almost, if someone were to require medical assistance in the middle of that, they would have a hard time scattering people.
Also, at first I thought that was AI generated lol. Is it real? (I’m so annoyed that I have to ask.)
Should be noted that it was fucking cold. -30C. And people still showed up
Good showing! 💪
Oh my god, that is dense. Seems like a hazard almost, if someone were to require medical assistance in the middle of that, they would have a hard time scattering people.
That happens a lot at protests, the protestors just step to the side (compressing the crowd a little) to create a lane. Even if it is getting a bit angry, nobody is angry at EMS or the fire department.
Also, at first I thought that was AI generated lol. Is it real? (I’m so annoyed that I have to ask.)
It’s real, here’s the source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minnesota-businesses-protest-ice.html
Thanks a lot
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.
Sorry I don’t have a reliable source on that, it might be wrong. I just read it on the Minnesota subreddit, someone who was explaining who he was. They said that he served in the air force, and then worked as a nurse for veterans.
Ok, I think I found the source of that discrepancy. He was a member of “AFGE”, the American Federation of Government Employees.
Being unfamiliar with that organization, I initially thought “AFGE” might have been an Air Force organization. I suspect someone else might have made this same initial assumption.
This comment thread is the only indication I’ve seen that he was associated with the military in any aspect other than his work for the VA.
A lot of the folks working at the VA happen to be veterans. I’m not confirming nor denying anything here, just saying there’s a strong correlation.
Not exactly probably. Remember that around 1/3 of veterans, such as myself a former Navy Nuke Instructor, never went overseas. Also of the ones that do go to another country, 90% are support staff and never see active combat. He would have been one of those, if he ever even left the US, as he would have been a corpsman, (nurse or doctor,).and would have been serving at a hospital.
So he probably participated in overseas operations
What’s with Americans and their euphemisms when it comes to serving in the military
I don’t know how else you’d phrase that. Almost no one in the military fires their rifle in combat. You’re trained to, in case it’s needed, but you most likely won’t do it. The vast majority are support. Even those on the front probably won’t shoot anyone.
It’s an overseas operation (if even that) because it isn’t combat. There’s a ton of other work the military does, which usually supports the combat, but isn’t participating in it. A lot of that is even humanitarian work, though admittedly the need for a lot of that is caused by the war.
I’m not in the US, that’s how we say “going to another country to perform military missions” in my country.
And as much as I have a general dislike for the US foreign policy they did good things too. I’ve read that he worked in the air force so he could have participated in preventing ISIS from killing more innocents and enslaving ethnic minorities by being on missions targeting their weapons depots a few years ago for example.
He probably went to another country and killed people. HOWEVER, if that’s true at least there’s a decent chance those people were armed and facing him, not pinned to the ground and shot in the back.
You’re almost correct. Almost 90% of US military veterans never saw front line combat. The sheer amount of support roles in the military is completely overlooked by fucking everyone. Including us veterans.
He went to another country. The fact that others are saying he was working as a VA nurse in his home town indicates that he was likely a corpsman, aka a military nurse that wasn’t killing anyone, he was working in the modern day version of a M.A.S.H. unit, like Major Margaret Houlihan.
Alex Pretti was murdered.
Say it with me. This was no “shooting.”
And it’s going to keep happening again and again.
I think Executed would be the correct term. The EXECUTED him while several agents held him down.
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Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE
Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE
Did you copy/paste the other person…?
Edit: why was this downvoted? It’s weird to copy/paste the exact same comment and it seemed like bot behavior to me.
Yes.
Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE
Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE
A lot more than those people…ICE Deaths Memorial https://icefalltracker.com/
Since justice is dead, it’s time to get the shooters’ names out there. We all saw with our own eyes what happened.
Looks like they are the ones starting a fight… and escalated… and murdered. Sigh. A complete set-up to fail. Stay strong over there.
Kristi Noem lying on TV this very moment about Alex Pretti and painting him as terrorist. And then claims the investigation will be performed. It seems to me they performed investigation 5 seconds after they put like 15 rounds into Alex. This shit needs Nuremberg type trials for entire current USA administration starting with Trump, all his hyenas and all the agents that murdered Alex and Renee. USA is a lawless wild west. They aren’t enforcing laws, they are playing Judge Dredd and interpret the laws pretty much randomly the way they feel, usually ending with innocent people dying. And then they continue lying about it. This is fucked.
Not to be overly Comic-book-guy but:
Judge Dredd is never portrayed killing someone for his own gratification in 2000AD. He isn’t racist, or to my knowledge, even a classist.
Yes, he is a ‘judge’ in an ultra violent society that devolves execution, due process and investigation to the officer on the beat.
But no one is above the law as far as he concerned not even the judiciary. There probably isn’t a president of the US that he wouldn’t have arrested for their crimes, and quite a few he’d execute for their crimes against humanity. Trump wouldn’t have made it to this millennium.
These ICE thugs are just cowardly fascist scum. Law is just a weapon of suppression to them. For Judge Dredd the law was sacred and the only thing preventing humanity from eating itself in his post apocalyptic future hellscape.
Him and The Punisher (who law enforcement tend to idolize) are people we shouldn’t wish for, but maybe people like them are sometimes required. When the justice system fails, who holds people accountable? If no one, then there’s nothing stopping evil people from doing whatever they want.
We don’t want state officials working for vigilante justice, but occasionally in history someone does need to.
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Alternately: after choosing to openly defy her voting base and refusing to budge on Israel, is Kamala happy now?
The DNC wrote a report on why the lost the election and chose not to release it. I wonder why. It’s almost like shitting on your base isn’t a winning strategy.
And before anyone thinks otherwise, I did not sit out during the election. So take it somewhere else.
Are the DNC fucks who refused to run a quality candidate or a quality campaign because that would upset their corporate donors happy now?
It is our fault for not believing hard enough.
If only we did not talk about a new deal the status quo campaign surely would have sold on empty platitudes and zero promises of reform and no friction between them and big biz stealing our lunch.
Voters really want to get fucked by the super rich, as long as more concern is expressed and a few crumbs to the deserving fucked. /s
They are happy and openly preparing to do it again.
youre right but given the choice between a shit democrat candidate/campaign and this, the answer was incredibly obvious from the beginning and if anyone thought otherwise theyre a dumbass
The nation is filled with dumbasses. But also, it was gonna get here eventually anyway. “Being the lesser of two evils” DNC strategy just meant things kept getting worse even with Democrats in charge. Trump put kids in cages but Biden didn’t stop it. Obama killed American citizens with airstrikes. Every presidency was an escalation.
you chose “fascism definitely today” over “fascism maybe tomorrow”
I voted for Harris. How was voting for Harris “fascism definitely today”? You know something about Kamala I don’t? I assumed Trump was “fascism definitely today”
She should never have been nominated. Any woman is going to have an uphill battle even if they aren’t neoliberal scum, but both Hillary and Kamala were also neoliberal scum, so they never stood a chance.
And every time a neoliberal bastard is placed in office their overt sliminess will swing the pendulum even harder toward the next big-talking, face-eating, would-be monarch that comes along and promises to do something, even if the something is mass murder, mass torture, isolationism, and foreign and domestic terror.
gotcha, my mistake i made an assumption
A lot of Americans chose “something different” over “more of the current shit that is slowly killing us”.
Perhaps if they’d been offered another version of “something different” they wouldn’t have chosen Trump. Or maybe they would, because ultimately Trump embodies the real American dream for a lot of people.
shame about americans are getting shot in the street because of it i suppose
Whoa what you mean about the airstrikes never heard of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
“He was assassinated in Yemen in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki was the first U.S. citizen to be targeted and assassinated by a U.S. government drone strike.”
The information available shows he was probably guilty of some serious crimes but he wasn’t killed on the battlefield and under US law, he was innocent until proven guilty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki
“According to the United States government, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki’s father, Anwar al-Awlaki, was a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a CIA drone strike several days before his son’s death.”
“Human rights groups questioned why Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was killed by the U.S. in a country with which the United States was not at war. Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, stated “if the government is going to be firing Predator missiles at American citizens, surely the American public has a right to know who’s being targeted, and why.””
Well now I’m taking some solace knowing that libs who wanted to ignore the Palestinian genocide still think leftists are why they lost. Meet our demands next time I guess.
Weird how you still want to blame leftists for having demands like ‘stop the genocide’ instead of blaming kamala for refusing to agree to such a simple demand. Kind of says a lot about how little Palestinian lives matter in your eyes.
Those people are lost
How little the next others matter. Palestinians are the start not the end, this is being brought home if it is not stopped.
It always had to be stopped, for selfish reasons if you understand the situation, alongside the moral reasons.
This was only supposed to happen somewhere else!
Not on us. For you it’s “better” to slaughter children than execute Americans, so you voted for genocide. For us, neither are acceptable so we voted for a third option.
It’s on you for refusing to not support genocide and insist on voting for a nonviable candidate.
Because Gaza is so much better off with Kushner in charge of it? https://lemmy.ml/post/42175873
Fuck off.
You’re so disgusting.
“I voted for genocide. Are you happy that it’s still being genocided?”
You fuck off, and get off your high horse. Your comfort as an American is not more important than all the brown people you don’t give a shit about being slaughtered.
There was no option to vote AGAINST genocide
There were, but they majority of the country choose silence and one of two genocide options.
Hell, we could have accepted a democratic candidate, and all you had to do was pressure the party to not put up a candidate that listens to the voters on their most vocal issue, you could have joined the “undecided” movement to let them know you don’t accept a republican light candidate…
Instead you shamed us for having a moral compass and screamed at us “do you want Trump instead?” while cheering for Kamala as she thanked Dick Satan Chaney for his service and promised the most lethal military in the world.
Continue to blame the voters for voting wrong. That’ll work.
I think they shifted to “Kamala would be doing exactly the same thing” and have now moved to “Trump would have won anyway.”
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
