Jesus Christ, America

 

Holding Trump's Gestapo to account

 

Desperate

 

A video released Wednesday appears to show Alex Pretti confronting federal immigration officers on a Minneapolis street nearly two weeks before he was fatally shot during a separate encounter with U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.

  Newsweek

I assume that's when they broke his rib.

Alex Pretti was known to the feds and suffered a broken rib in a violent confrontation with agents a week before Border Patrol officers killed him in Minneapolis, according to a report.

  NY Post

This must be where Kristi Noem got her information that Pretti was a domestic terrorist and would-be assassin.

Also, it's the left's fault.

ICE and Border Patrol agents were there to arrest an illegal immigrant criminal, and Pretti and others were there, outside a donut shop, to meet them as part of a strategic pattern of organized interference with law enforcement operations.

Over the following hours, a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells in the United States leveraged the tragic fatality into a nationwide protest operation. While grief and outrage over Pretti’s death is genuine, the network’s real-time rapid response, using short sensational video clips and emojis as weapons of propaganda, offers a window into the disciplined logistics, messaging and coordination of far-left warriors fomenting insurgency-like confrontation with authorities.

“This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities,” Vice President JD Vance observed in a Sunday post on X.

[...]

Media outlets, including CNN and MSNOW, described “angry protesters” but failed to identify the ideological networks behind the mobilization, even as protesters flashed their signs with their logos and names, touting socialism, communism and Marxism, on camera.

The Minneapolis activation marked the beginning of an almost instantaneous weekend surge by far-left organizations, including hardened socialist and communist groups operating in an ecosystem that national security experts describe as an insurgent-style operation designed to exploit tragedy to wage a domestic political war.

[...]

Just as they responded in real-time to mobilize “comrades” to march on the streets within 12 hours of the U.S. arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in early January, socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist groups now frame their activation as an action within the “belly of the beast” against the “hyperimperialism” of the United States.

Based on a digital analysis of scores of rapid-response messages following the killing on Saturday, a hub of communist and socialist nonprofit organizations emerged as key organizers of the protests. Many of them are funded by American-born billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a self-declared Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai.

  NY Post

Christ.

An organized resistance to federal goon squads is thwarting them, and they want to stop it. Of course it can only be a communist plot.

I wonder how many agents they have trying to infiltrate the resistance.

Silent protest

 

When you've lost Maria Bartiromo

Or maybe she's just setting them up so they can give their bullshit responses.

Comer tries to give Trump an out: "go to another city" and let Minnesotans think about what they've done.

 

Another ICE murder in Minneapolis

How many agents were on top of that guy?  And they had to shoot him?  

This is the point.  They know they're not going to be held to account, only encouraged.

Yes.

And Democrats just voted to further fund them.

UPDATE 10:09 am:

He won't.  So then what are you prepared to do?  

In fact, he probably had a good laugh when he hung up the phone.  He hates Walz.

Sadly, I don't think it's going to happen.  House Democrats just voted with Republicans to give them more money.  (Update: Senate Dems say they will vote no.)

Where are all the brave survivalist warriors with weapons who generally gather to proclaim to the government, "DON'T TREAD ON ME," and who have barricaded themselves into a standoff in the past?

Even if he had a gun, he was in no position to use it.

"Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry men."

They're like hyenas.  They go as a group to pick off lone prey.

I can't tell if the police are clearing the barricade or putting it up.  (I believe they're putting it up.)

And what's the story with the guy they tackled?  Looks like he was walking away.  Tensions are very high.  Understandably.  ICE needs to get the fuck out of Minneapolis before the lid blows off.  But that's what they want.

UPDATE 02:48 pm:

The man who was shot was ICU nurse Alex Pretti, his parents said. The officer who shot the man is an eight-year Border Patrol veteran, according to federal officials.
  ESPN

What's his name?

It's the third shooting and second death in Minneapolis this month involving a federal agent, sparking persistent protests across the city despite subzero temperatures.

[...]

The NBA has postponed Saturday's game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors in Minneapolis.

[...]

In a statement, the NBA said the game was postponed "to prioritize the safety and security of the Minneapolis community."

The league intends to play the game Sunday at 5:30 p.m. ET. The Warriors and Timberwolves are also scheduled to play again in downtown Minneapolis on Monday night.

How about the Warriors and the Timberwolves refuse to play until ICE is out of Minneapolis? How about some sort of solidarity with citizens - who pay these guys a fortune to watch them frolic - who are being killed by federal goon squads?

 

Where are all the second amendment fanatics?

"We're not gonna have it."  Not gonna have people organize to protest.  Not gonna have people wear protective gear when they do.  

God, this woman is so despicable.  And stupid.

Bride of Chuckie.

Also...

Jesus Christ.

So now it's a white man, they'll pretend at least to investigate.  

UPDATE 03:48 pm:

My current US representative, Illinois District 17:

Yes. I've contacted my Senators (Durbin and Duckworth).  Have you?  

Still, that wouldn't be enough.  ICE already has already been given more money than the Israeli army!  Can they retract some of that funding?  They need to simply abolish ICE altogether.

UPDATE 04:06 pm:

Well, good.

So sorry to all those murdered, tortured, terrified, and detained in the meantime.

He had a right to carry a gun - Republicans have made that a priority in this country - but how do we even know that gun was his?  Could have been, but it looks like something one of those goons would carry, doesn't it?

Look at this guy come out of the huddle with it.  (Update: see clip from Derek Guy below* - he did have a gun, it was holstered, and it was taken from him before they shot him.)

Why would we believe ANYTHING DHS says?

Amen!

UPDATE 09:34 pm:

Scum.  Pure scum.

Tincher v. Noem Declaration of Witness No 2:

Scum.

This is the fear they want to spread.

Abolish the NRA.

Making America great again.

Boston presente:

UPDATE 10:08 pm:

Yes, we've seen Chuck wimp out before.

I wonder how many people around the world in countries where the United States has backed brutal dictators are thinking, at last, Americans understand.

UPDATE 01/25/2026:

There's a glaring problem with this:  HE NO LONGER HAD IT WHEN THEY SHOT HIM.

Jesus wept.

UPDATE 01/25/2026 09:25 am:

What they also understand is if by some chance they ARE held accountable, like the J6 insurrectionists and killers, they'll be pardoned by Trump.

UPDATE 01/25/2026:

And when it suits their narrative, they'll be doing this again.

Ten!  What does that tell you?  They stood around a man who'd been put down by a bullet in the back and continued to pump more bullets into him.  Then, according to a physician witness, they stood around counting the bullet holes.

These people WANT to shoot people.  They don't even care if the person is already dead.  They WANT to pump bullets into a human being.

They need to be brought to justice.  Even if Trump does eventually pardon them.

* Video of the gun being taken from Pretti's holster:

UPDATE 01/27/2026:

He was incredibly brave to go out again and try to stand between Trump's Gestapo and citizens.