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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.

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Alex Pretti was murdered.

Say it with me. This was no “shooting.”

And it’s going to keep happening again and again.

[-] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE

Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE

[-] errer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Since justice is dead, it’s time to get the shooters’ names out there. We all saw with our own eyes what happened.

[-] discocactus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

A lot more than those people...ICE Deaths Memorial https://icefalltracker.com/

[-] X@piefed.world 15 points 1 week ago

Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE

Renee Macklin Good was murdered by ICE

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[-] lmagitem@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That sure sounds like something the NRA should have an opinion about

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

The NRA exists solely for the profit of firearms manufacturers.

This won't hinder their sales,so the NRA won't care.

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

It might even increase them.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hope innocent people start arming themselves. It's fucking time for the 2A to kick in

[-] Aljernon@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

The NRA is an embezzlement scam. They don't care about gun rights OR gun manufacturers

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

The NRA started the anti-gun movement in California alongside Reagan. In response to the Black Panthers carrying while copwatching as they did similar shit to the Black neighborhoods in the 1960s.

The NRA will back it no problem. They have before.

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[-] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Hamartia@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

Something I was just made aware of: after shooting and killing Alex Pretti, ICE officers then stood back and shot him 5 more times.

[-] Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

Looks like they are the ones starting a fight.... and escalated... and murdered. Sigh. A complete set-up to fail. Stay strong over there.

[-] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

There's a third option: people don't resist and the regime does whatever it wants.

So far we've chosen that option.

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[-] French75@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Military coup. The only way a civil war is successful is if the military are on the side of the people. The most important of which would be the USN and USAF Strategic Forces. A prolonged ground war is only won by sea, air, and nuclear forces. More specifically nuclear forces in the hands of said military who will NOT use them on our own land.

It will present a serious challenge with all the Pentagon purges. But the majority of Flag and Line officers are from West Point, Annapolis, and Maxwell. It's unlikely most side with Trump (for now). The real trick will hinge on the NCOs, as the US Military is predominantly a middle-out force, and senior NCOs hold the bulk of our service members' respect. What they decide to do in the majority will dictate the outcome of a civil war. One NG commander already stated publicly he will order his soldiers to protect protesters from ICE agents. There is a small chance.

Ideally the next time President Trump boards Marine 1 he's taken into custody at a military base with a large Delta, Rangers, or NG presence to subdue USSS agents. With a Federal Judge, Vance, Speaker Johnson, and Grassley in tow. Invoke 25 or Martial Law, and go down the line of succession until someone takes the oath. This is highly unlikely though. A full impeachment is more likely, but a lot of people will need to for die before it will happen.

It's either that or The Man in The High Castle. The American Fourth Reich.

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[-] cashsky@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

They are trying to scare you from exercising your 2nd amendment rights.

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Do not believe anything posted by doj or their affiliates

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[-] HamFistedVegan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Congress isn't going to do anything

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[-] wizblizz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

No one is coming to save us.

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[-] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago

Everyone should have a gun when dealing with ice

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

"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.

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[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

And whitehouse.gov will "meme" it with AI in 3..2...1

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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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/

[-] ambientdread@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trump's Taliban doing summary street executions now.

Thugs checklist:

  1. Pepper spray
  2. Push down on ground
  3. Feral pack pile on
  4. Run off with the gun they stole
  5. Empty clips into prone body
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[-] JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

He saved that woman's life, but I cannot imagine how she feels right now. I would be sick with survivor's guilt.

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