Wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage fatigues, the federal agents took aim and prepared to open fire. “It’s like Call of Duty,” one could be heard saying via a TV mic, referring to a first-person shooter military video game. “So cool, huh?”
This was the scene on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday after armed agents, wearing masks and tactical vests, wrestled 37-year-old Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him dead. The killing took place just over a mile from where Renee Good was fatally shot on 7 January, a scene that itself was less than a mile from where police murdered George Floyd in May 2020.
“How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, demanded at a press conference on Saturday, referring to the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. An angry crowd gathered and swore profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home.
They have a narrative to maintain. Tyranny requires constant effort. That wasn’t just made up in Andor for a good speech.
They have to make the opposition look dangerous and weak. They have to make themselves look strong and at risk. Right now what’s happening in Minnesota doesn’t fit the fascist narrative, so they are desperately hoping to trigger more.
Unfortunately, I’m pretty confident at this point there is a US version of the Moscow Apartment Bombings being prepared.
Will it be in Minnesota? Maybe. Could ICE be in Minnesota to distract from where they are really planning it? Also a possibility.
Think of how much focus is on Minneapolis right now. We know they pulled a lot of ICE from the entire nation to go there. If the false flag were to go off in Chicago, New York City, LA, New Orleans, etc. They can spin the narrative that "Minnesota, in its recklessness pulled too many ICE resources away from [location] and [terrible event] occurred. We have no other option than to deploy troops to every major city. "