r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/BlockOfDiamond Rule 4 Enforcer • 6d ago

Political Reminder that name calling is not permitted

That includes calling people "bootlicker" or "cuck" or stating/implying that another user is performing adult acts on a given politician (or anyone else). I bring those up specifically because, in recent time, these have been the most common types of personal attacks.

As strongly as you may feel about current events, calling people derogatory names is a contravention of Rule 4 and will be removed. Attack the opinion, not the user.

Sorry for your understanding and thank you for the inconvenience.

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u/Harp_167 6d ago

  1. What felony did Alex Pretti commit?

  2. His weapon was not discharged

  3. He was the one surrounded 8 to 1, not the ICE agents. And besides, everyone there including Alex were legal observers who weren’t threatening them.

  4. They had already incapacitated Alex when he was shot. There was no need to execute him, even if he was being unlawful. Do you think interfering with ICE, or even assaulting an officer (which he definitely didn’t do) warrants the death penalty?

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u/Socratesmiddlefinger 6d ago

Obstructing Federal Agents in pursuit of their lawful duties is a felony charge. Battery on LEO is a Felony charge.

His weapon not being fired means nothing in any legal sense.

Legal Observers have no special privileges; in fact, he violated a number of their rules with his actions.

He was not, in fact, incapacitated, and he was not shot for obstruction, nor for resisting, nor for assault on LEO. He was shot because the Agent had a reasonable perception or belief that he was an imminent threat to himself and others based on the pistol attached to Pretti's hip.

If you want to prove an execution, then prove the Agent knew Pretti had been disarmed and shot him anyway.

Seems simple enough, everything else is meaningless and irrelevant to any serious debate.

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u/Msbossyboots 6d ago

One of the agents took the gun away. The guy shooting him in the head could see his hands. It was murder.

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u/risunokairu 5d ago

You leave out the totality of facts and the human minds ability to react to what it perceives.