It was murder. In Cold Blood, linked below, explains that almost frame by frame with photos (screen shots from the pink hat lady video). Three peaceful observers were physicallyes assaulted. One was violently physically assaulted, and worse, one was clearly murdered by illegal lethal force. After the fact, federally enforced impunity resulted in criminal obstruction of justice in a conspiracy. The conspiracy involves two heads of cabinet-level agencies and the President of the United States, et al. Watch from the moment that ICE Agent 1 exits his vehicle.
1) Regarding when the agents knew Alex Pretti had a gun: Asha Rangappa, former FBI Special Agent, on both her Substack and in her interview with Sarah, said that agents are taught in firearms training to act and not react because their reactions can be too slow and, by then, they or someone else can already be shot. If (big IF) the agents were trained this way, they would likely have drawn their weapons as soon as they suspected/knew that Mr. Pretti had a gun. They did not draw their weapons until well after the altercation started (a frame-by-fame analysis would be helpful), but it appears they did not draw weapons until they had seen the gun Pretti is alleged to and appears to have possessed. It would seem extremely unlikely that they thought or knew he had a gun before they drew their own weapons. They seem to be eager to have any excuse to shoot people.
2) Regarding why Trump and his minions keeps doing this and lying about it, one possibility is that his goal is to provoke violent resistance by murdering Americans and lying about it. Another related outcome may be to terrorize and demoralize would-be protesters by showing they can kill anyone they want with impunity. He has been talking about invoking the Insurrection Act and Trump is incapable of not saying the quiet part out loud. This would be a pretext for trying to use the military to interfere in the election and perhaps even try to depose or usurp local and state officials.
Not defending what happened but a technical point. There are multiple criminal provisions in US Code Title 8, the Immigration and Nationality Act. Also, immigration officers have general arrest authority for violations of federal criminal law.
Hearing the sound track of this and the Good killing, I'm beginning to think these agents are hopped up on Captagon or some other speed. Something is turning these guys into real berserkers.
There are no words left to describe this horror. Only George Orwell, 1984. “(They) told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was the final, most essential command.”
Splitting DHS funding off from the appropriations omnibus bill is being discussed as a way to 1) get seven Democratic votes to pass the budget, and then 2) negotiate changes to DHS in order to pass the additional funding for the agency, for which Republicans would still need 60 votes.
Splitting is a huge mistake, as it takes pressure off Republicans, looks weak, and lets Republicans off the hook of publicly standing behind the ICE and CBP thug violence and murders. Schumer and Democrats can force Republicans to either accept major changes to ICE and CBP, or forget the additional DHS funding and forget funding the government. Schumer and Senate Dems have a lot - a lot - of power. They need to use it. Now.
Like I said, this is it. This is where Schumer and Dems either put their political lives on the line, or sell this country down the river. There's no finessing it. Everyone has seen the video, people are sickened and furious, and it's only going to get worse. The time is now. And if Schumer lets this one go, tries to use parliamentary trickery, he will go down in history as the one who could have stood his ground and put serious sand in the gears of American fascism, but didn't.
Splitting is a huge mistake, which means they will almost certainly do it because Schumer is a feckless, idiotic, weakling. The Democrats still, after all this time, are hopelessly clueless as to the significance of the danger we’re in and their place in the historical moment, and their inability to figure it out, and learn how to actually wield political power in the minority, is causing the American people to suffer more at the hands of the regimes thugs and goon squad because of it.
Couldn't agree more. I have zero faith Schumer will show any courage or moral center at all. He's been in Congress since, I believe, 1981. The worldblind DC bubble is who he is, the risk avoidant corporatist consultant complex is who he is, the interests of capital and the world of finance that feeds off of it is who he is. I don't think he can, never mind wants to, make a single move or gesture without "running it past legal" or "checking with appropriations" or triangulating with the consultant complex. But I'm willing to be surprised. And it's possible, and I think actually likely, that at this point the Fight Club senators, plus some on point junior Senators like Brian Schatz, might be giving Schumer a come to jesus moment. And I would hope to hell that Klobuchar and Smith are reading Schumer the riot act. We'll see. What's certain is that if Schumer blows this, especially by playing parliamentary genius, he will go the way of Merrick Garland as an historic failure. He will be ruined for public service forever. And he will be remembered as the man who greenlighted our freefall into fascism.
so ICE/CBP can be charged with state crime, but can the feds (DHS) ask for the case to be bumped up to the federal courts? and then the federal courts can then drop the charges?
I’m not an expert on law enforcement or ice ! I only know when I saw the full video I cried, I cried because I just witnessed a murder of a human being. My friends & family live in Mpls & St. Paul they are scared & stressed. I cannot help them or stop ice I can only share info & pray 🙏🏽 😢
I read that one of the officers involved in jumping on Alex, after he was shot, walked by a shocked and dismayed bystander and sarcastically said, "Boohoo." This reminds me of the last thing that Ross said to Good. These comments say to me that ICE personnel do not view the protesters/observers/"lefties" as humans. If they are annoying, just shoot them and get them out of the way. Good was shot because she was viewed as an annoying, uppity women who was just in the way. Pretti was shot because he was annoying and got in the way of an ICE guy's pepper-spraying a woman and was videoing them. ICE employees do not view them as humans who have lives and loved ones and have value and that these were unfortunate incidents that required their action to protect themselves. They were just annoying things that got in their way and they wanted to just make them disappear and "teach them a lesson." These ICE people have lost their humanity.
To somewhat amend: CBP killed Pretti. They seem to be indistinguishable from ICE in terms of face coverings and behavior. They have also lost their humanity.
Absolutely agree with Sarah. They should shut down the government.
It was murder. In Cold Blood, linked below, explains that almost frame by frame with photos (screen shots from the pink hat lady video). Three peaceful observers were physicallyes assaulted. One was violently physically assaulted, and worse, one was clearly murdered by illegal lethal force. After the fact, federally enforced impunity resulted in criminal obstruction of justice in a conspiracy. The conspiracy involves two heads of cabinet-level agencies and the President of the United States, et al. Watch from the moment that ICE Agent 1 exits his vehicle.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/in-cold-blood?r=3m1bs
One of Sarah's last statements is MOST terrify."What do they do when we are not filming them?
Two things:
1) Regarding when the agents knew Alex Pretti had a gun: Asha Rangappa, former FBI Special Agent, on both her Substack and in her interview with Sarah, said that agents are taught in firearms training to act and not react because their reactions can be too slow and, by then, they or someone else can already be shot. If (big IF) the agents were trained this way, they would likely have drawn their weapons as soon as they suspected/knew that Mr. Pretti had a gun. They did not draw their weapons until well after the altercation started (a frame-by-fame analysis would be helpful), but it appears they did not draw weapons until they had seen the gun Pretti is alleged to and appears to have possessed. It would seem extremely unlikely that they thought or knew he had a gun before they drew their own weapons. They seem to be eager to have any excuse to shoot people.
2) Regarding why Trump and his minions keeps doing this and lying about it, one possibility is that his goal is to provoke violent resistance by murdering Americans and lying about it. Another related outcome may be to terrorize and demoralize would-be protesters by showing they can kill anyone they want with impunity. He has been talking about invoking the Insurrection Act and Trump is incapable of not saying the quiet part out loud. This would be a pretext for trying to use the military to interfere in the election and perhaps even try to depose or usurp local and state officials.
Andrew sounds quaint talking about what he learned from Mueller and the intentions and motivations of law enforcement bodies in the “before times.”
Sarah, please come to Minnesota. The more eyes we can get on what is happening in our state, the better.
don't forget that kristi noem said that we can't trust the government during an interview right after they took over...
Is there a way they can find out the names of the agents responsible for Alex Pretti ‘s death?
Not defending what happened but a technical point. There are multiple criminal provisions in US Code Title 8, the Immigration and Nationality Act. Also, immigration officers have general arrest authority for violations of federal criminal law.
Hearing the sound track of this and the Good killing, I'm beginning to think these agents are hopped up on Captagon or some other speed. Something is turning these guys into real berserkers.
That's a snazzy uniform Bovine has on, comlete with name tag and badge. Couldn't their agents wear theirs, you know, like real police?
There are no words left to describe this horror. Only George Orwell, 1984. “(They) told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was the final, most essential command.”
Splitting DHS funding off from the appropriations omnibus bill is being discussed as a way to 1) get seven Democratic votes to pass the budget, and then 2) negotiate changes to DHS in order to pass the additional funding for the agency, for which Republicans would still need 60 votes.
Splitting is a huge mistake, as it takes pressure off Republicans, looks weak, and lets Republicans off the hook of publicly standing behind the ICE and CBP thug violence and murders. Schumer and Democrats can force Republicans to either accept major changes to ICE and CBP, or forget the additional DHS funding and forget funding the government. Schumer and Senate Dems have a lot - a lot - of power. They need to use it. Now.
Like I said, this is it. This is where Schumer and Dems either put their political lives on the line, or sell this country down the river. There's no finessing it. Everyone has seen the video, people are sickened and furious, and it's only going to get worse. The time is now. And if Schumer lets this one go, tries to use parliamentary trickery, he will go down in history as the one who could have stood his ground and put serious sand in the gears of American fascism, but didn't.
Splitting is a huge mistake, which means they will almost certainly do it because Schumer is a feckless, idiotic, weakling. The Democrats still, after all this time, are hopelessly clueless as to the significance of the danger we’re in and their place in the historical moment, and their inability to figure it out, and learn how to actually wield political power in the minority, is causing the American people to suffer more at the hands of the regimes thugs and goon squad because of it.
Couldn't agree more. I have zero faith Schumer will show any courage or moral center at all. He's been in Congress since, I believe, 1981. The worldblind DC bubble is who he is, the risk avoidant corporatist consultant complex is who he is, the interests of capital and the world of finance that feeds off of it is who he is. I don't think he can, never mind wants to, make a single move or gesture without "running it past legal" or "checking with appropriations" or triangulating with the consultant complex. But I'm willing to be surprised. And it's possible, and I think actually likely, that at this point the Fight Club senators, plus some on point junior Senators like Brian Schatz, might be giving Schumer a come to jesus moment. And I would hope to hell that Klobuchar and Smith are reading Schumer the riot act. We'll see. What's certain is that if Schumer blows this, especially by playing parliamentary genius, he will go the way of Merrick Garland as an historic failure. He will be ruined for public service forever. And he will be remembered as the man who greenlighted our freefall into fascism.
so ICE/CBP can be charged with state crime, but can the feds (DHS) ask for the case to be bumped up to the federal courts? and then the federal courts can then drop the charges?
I’m not an expert on law enforcement or ice ! I only know when I saw the full video I cried, I cried because I just witnessed a murder of a human being. My friends & family live in Mpls & St. Paul they are scared & stressed. I cannot help them or stop ice I can only share info & pray 🙏🏽 😢
I read that one of the officers involved in jumping on Alex, after he was shot, walked by a shocked and dismayed bystander and sarcastically said, "Boohoo." This reminds me of the last thing that Ross said to Good. These comments say to me that ICE personnel do not view the protesters/observers/"lefties" as humans. If they are annoying, just shoot them and get them out of the way. Good was shot because she was viewed as an annoying, uppity women who was just in the way. Pretti was shot because he was annoying and got in the way of an ICE guy's pepper-spraying a woman and was videoing them. ICE employees do not view them as humans who have lives and loved ones and have value and that these were unfortunate incidents that required their action to protect themselves. They were just annoying things that got in their way and they wanted to just make them disappear and "teach them a lesson." These ICE people have lost their humanity.
To somewhat amend: CBP killed Pretti. They seem to be indistinguishable from ICE in terms of face coverings and behavior. They have also lost their humanity.
Exactly. They are true believers, full bore fascists.