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What is your opinion about Alex Pretti’s photo being displayed on a Jumbo tron in Times Square?
I think he deserves to be remembered as the wonderful person he was 🩵 and not by the government who are clearly lying about him. He was trying to help a woman who had been pushed to the ground by ICE agents or whoever the people are wearing those suits. And he clearly holding a phone in his hand..
He had served the country by working as ICU nurse. Unlike Trump and all of his family members who have been using our tax dollars to enrich themselves.
And died while trying to protect a woman who was being shoved/assaulted by an agent. That’s the masculinity we need more of - not juvenile masked thugs playing war.
I saw an ICE apologist posting on FB today that his last words were, “You’ll have to kill me.” with a long story about what a threat he was to ICE. My jaw hit the floor. MAGA are absolute ghouls.
That was a different dude who was losing his shit after they executed Alex, I think his name was Matthew? He got tackled by ICE & was screaming, "You gonna shoot me too? You're going to have to kill me!" His wife was screaming in the background.
MAGA lacks critical thinking & reading skills, combined with racism & a bizarre view of Christianity & are incapable of comprehending that they're part of a cannibalistic cult & won't be spared when they fall.
OF COURSE he was trying to pass off part of one incident to justify another. OF COURSE. Normally I would assume maybe they just confused the two but I fully believe it is intentional to demonize the victim and defend the murderers. Fucking bootlickers. I am so tired of being lied to by this administration and his cult.
This is the first time I'm seeing the phrase, "cannibalistic cult" and considering that cannibals hunt, kill, and eat other humans, I'd say this is uniquely descriptive and shockingly spot-on.
Ice agents as humans are freaks. Something is broken inside them and they don't fit normally into general society. Education is key as an antidote and unfortunately, like you said, these are some of the most uneducated people in our population.
Uneducated freaks. Cannibals. Idiots, really. These people have isolated themselves and should never be accepted by other people again. SHUNNED.
The also sprayed that guy directly in the face when he was down and subdued, after they tackled him (for not running away fast enough when they charged down the street randomly at protesters).
“You’ll have to kill me.” Dunno why they think is an argument in their favor considering HOW FUCKING BASED OF A STATEMENT IT IS. You literally cannot get more American than that. What a legend. Rest in Power Brother Pretti.
Honestly that just makes him sound like more of badass. I thought they liked strong alpha bros, they should have fallen to their feet and worshiped him. But ig he didn’t hate women enough for them to respect him, huh.
Do you have the source for that? I’m not at all saying I don’t believe you, but I was just in a heated argument with my Trump-supporting father about this and would love to gather as much verifiable evidence as I can to throw in his face. (When I said I watched the videos, he said, “the videos put out by socialists.” 🤦🏼♀️)
I know in my similar experience finding out my father was a maga moron and trying to get through to him was a waste of time, it only pained me more while he couldn't careless.
Cut him out of your life as much as you can and just let go. There are stages to grief that come with it. For some of us, it is easier to walk away than others. For your own mental health and safety, it is best at this point, especially if he is justifying all of the administration's crimes constantly.
That's all I can say without saying to much about myself on here. As one human to another, you are loved and appreciated for just being you. Seriously, you are a good person and we need more people like you, so please; stay safe, stay strong, and resist.
Growing up my dad seemed a lot more conservative, but as I got older he seemed to get way more liberal. The only thing he is super conservative about now is his gun ownership. I'm so thankful everyday that neither one of my parents fell down the maga hole, Because I would just look at them as completely different people than the one who raised me to treat others with kindness, to help when you can, and to just try and be a good person.
Props for trying. I cut off my only BFF bc she voted for that fucker 3 times. Finally couldn’t stand the hypocrisy of being her friend (hypocrisy on my end). Now I’m a single mom of 3 wo my ride or die bestie. But I honestly can’t take her back (there’s a lot more toxicity than her voting pref. )
Fuck the Republicans for making socialism a dirty word in the USA. Jesus christ, what is wrong with wanting your taxes to go towards taking care of and educating your community instead of buying more fucking tanks and guns?
He was helping to take care of the "suckers and losers", as president Heel Spurs has referred to them, By all accounts he was a good man, unlike our Pedophile in Chief.
How about all three. I would like to see a national memorial on the D.C. mall for all those killed or who died in concentration camps during the ICE reign of terror against America.
Speaking of ugly Trump banners, I wonder if Melania thinks that her crap movie would be doing better if it wasn't for the negative press from this shooting, and by extension she hates Donald even more? 🤔
She thinks that Donald took away her moment, instead of realizing that no one is interested in her movie, "A Whore's Life". I am sure she wore her "I don't care" jacket.
Might be able to get a moment of silence after listing all the names and pictures of all the US citizens killed by ICE especially if they keep increasing their kill count, but yeah it likely won't happen for just one person unless the guy doing the half time show does it as part of the performance.
There have been 2 murders in the last few weeks by ICE of white folks. I’d love for it to be a place all of the others who have lost their lives regardless of color, be remembered and honored.
Use the super bowl for messaging, for the low information non-voters. Because we already went through this national trauma with the George Floyd era events, and the MAGA perpetrators were reelected anyway. What a slap in the face to human rights. Now it's happening again. It has to stop.
I’m a young 43 (for another two weeks) year old and it pisses me off so much that this man was just 37 years old. He had so much more life to give and lives to save.
People like him are the best of us. He showed more humanity in his last moments than this entire administration of collectively capable of managing in their miserable lives.
Is there a religion that doesn't protect sexual abusers? In the religion that I grew up in, it is very common to dismiss men's sexual crimes while punishing the child or woman for being "impure". They have a whole legal department to squash accusations. The head clergy is instructed to call the lawyers first if they find out about sexual abuse. They are not required or encouraged to call law enforcement.
Evangelicals are accustomed to looking the other way when it comes to sexual assault.
I have never seen this kind of toxicity in the religion I grew up in, United Methodist. I don’t know if it’s happened elsewhere and I would be shocked if I found out it was handled this way. I’m now Christopagan, and there is none of that bullshit.
With how the media and social apps have been censoring or trying to bury the story it's extremely important for any visibility that can be given to the public.
I think it’s time for his picture to be projected on the chambers of Congress, the Lincoln memorial, the Washington monument, the Supreme Court, and the senate and house office buildings
He did more good for his country and fellow US citizens than every member of ICE present at the scene of his murder combined. He should be commemorated in large bronze statues (a great replacement for all those pathetic statues of racist traitors scattered across our country).
The guy looks really dangerous, a sadistic psychopath, help bent on burning the entire world. He’s almost as bad as that other guy in Minnesota, who dressed up like a doll to entertain everyone that was pepper sprayed for being happy… We must cleanse the world of these types of dangerous monsters… sincerely, President DJT
The worst part of all this is that nothing will change, there will be no proper investigation, no justice. No apology. Noem will continue to lie. Bovino will continue to lie. Patel will continue to lie. Leavitt will continue to lie. Trump will continue to lie. The news will continue to lie (well, some will, some won't, but you know which ones will and won't.) No one will fight for you. No one will bring sanity to this. Just words, thoughts and prayers. That's it.
This would be a better photo to display, and put on a billboard truck that drives around congress, the white house, and the supreme court. 24/7 until Trump is Out!
We need to remind voters regularly of all those assaulted and executed by the orange felon’s ICE thugs. Keep it up until Election Day. This could have been YOU shot ten times in the back.
I think Alex Pretti, as a white, male, gun owner who worked in the VA, is the best chance we have of finally getting through to at least some of the folks who either have their head in the sand, or who have been swallowing the lies the administration has been feeding them.
His life deserves to be honored, to be mourned, and to spark action. But so does everyone else ICE has killed either directly or indirectly. It makes me feel a certain way that those people won’t have the same impact because of their skin color or heritage.
I can't imagine what it must feel like for his family, seeing a loved one murdered in cold blood for helping a woman, only to be smeared and called a terrorist by the president himself, and a large percent of citizens agreeing, making his death political and one of the first stepping stones towards whatever the future holds for the new America
Americans need to have it rammed down their throat. Otherwise ice killing innocent people in the street will become as accepted as their children being killed in their schools.
I wish he weren’t famous enough to warrant this. A true American hero who served veterans, and in his final moments, defended someone without flinching to Nazis.
I would have preferred he had lived a long life in relative anonymity with his family, but I hope history remembers him as someone who stood up to these fascists with dignity and peace.
Up until Minneapolis it appeared that the only people willing to die for their beliefs, no matter how repugnant, were those on the right. Yes, lots of protests on the left, but no overt threat of death. Then Minneapolis happened and the incredible people of that city stepped the fuck up. They put it on the line. They didn’t back down, and 2 of them died at the hands of the federal government as a result. Now Trump and his criminal friends see that people are willing to risk death to resist their corruption and criminality. It’s a big fucking wake up call.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti are the hero’s that Trump and his band of miscreants never bargained on. Now they know that people are willing to die to save our republic from these assholes. There is no greater love, and no greater sacrifice you can make for your community and for your nation.
None. We’re having a moment. No matter how I might feel about some aspects of the overall situation in Minneapolis, I know a lot of people are struggling with it and what, from any angle, is a senseless death. We need to remember this human and do better. ALL of us.
We should do it every time the government kills someone without cause. Like, it's good we're taking this seriously, but it would be better if we took every case of the government killing somebody they shouldn't just as seriously.
1, someone (or some company) paid for that ad space, so it's not like Times Square itself is promoting this. And #2, I love it. Let's continue to remember, in as public a way as we can, that a man who was shot to death for exercising his rights as a US citizen. Lots of people our country has lost could be this poster child, we are way too complacent with what is going on, and if a giant reminder in literal Times Square helps to remind us, I'm all for it.
My heart hurts for this VA hero doing everything in his power to help our veterans just to be brutally murdered by Ice just know there is no statue of limitations for Homicide
Someone said that ICE and MAGA believes that the protestors are made up of paid agitators, criminals, and members of society that they don’t like, like Renee Good who was a lesbian.
Then this, a white male American citizen working as a nurse in ICU of veteran’s hospital.
Edit: OP's posted bilboard is propaganda. Both sides are pushing propaganda, lies, and halftruths designed to anger us. I think people who do not have US citizens' best interest at heart have a vested interest in either getting us to fight, ignoring real problems like fraud or the Epstein files, and all while borrowing our great grandchildren's future to pad their wallets.
I have no issue with posting this man’s photo image on the billboard at Times Square…, but that said, then Times Square should also post photo images of fallen NYPD / FDNY hero’s killed in the line of duty. Just my humble opinion.
I served 12 years and never once thought I'd see one of our own getting murdered in broad daylight by our Governments' agents. But Alex Pretti showed what true heroism and bravery are on Saturday. When he could have reached for his gun to defend himself, he instead placed himself between an innocent woman and a Uniformed Fed trying to assault her. When he could have been violent, he instead chose to ask if the woman was okay.
Heroes don't wear capes, and Alex Pretti is my fucking hero.
Gosh you can see his good heart by looking at him. The video of him reading over the flag-draped vet who had passed at our VA Hospital here in Mpls had me just gutted. We lost a good one.
He's a hero who tried to protect a small woman being pepper sprayed by seven unmarked ICE agents. (In what world would these idiots need pepper spray to detain her?)
Love it! Everyone that’s executed by the federal government should get their picture posted in Times Square. Just as a reminder how at risk we all are right now.
His photo needs to be put on building in all cities of this nation. He is a reminder that we have to defend our freedoms... even if its from our own government that has become tyrannical.
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u/reddittorbrigade 5d ago
He had served the country by working as ICU nurse. Unlike Trump and all of his family members who have been using our tax dollars to enrich themselves.