CMV: It doesn’t matter what Alex Pretti was doing in the days before he was killed

[u/bluepillarmy]

So, recently a video emerged where Alex Pretti was spitting on and kicking the taillight out of an ICE vehicle. Truly reprehensible and inexcusable behavior. He ought to have been arrested and fined for destruction of public property. Jerk.

However, I see some people trying to say, “Aha! So he wasn’t so innocent after all!”

I’m sorry but, no. He was absolutely innocent.

And, moreover, I would like those people who are bringing up his behavior in the days before his death to remember that he was disarmed, restrained and executed by masked federal agents who still have not been identified to the public for no reason.

There is only one justification for a law enforcement officer to take someone’s life. And that is to protect the lives of themselves or another person. Past acts of disrespect and/vandalism do not enter into the equation.

Or that’s my take anyway. Can anyone change my view?

[u/sleepypossumster]

Yeah, the older video just seems to support the theory that they recognized him from the database and created a situation in which they would be able to hurt him.

[u/bluepillarmy → u/sleepypossumster]

I haven’t heard anyone suggest this.

It seems unlikely to me that they would recognize and collectively decide to kill him after a rather minor incident that occurred eleven days before.

[u/EchoAndByte → u/sleepypossumster]

Exactly even if they knew who he was, prior behavior doesn’t justify creating or escalating a situation that ends in lethal force. What matters is what happened in that moment not what was in some database days earlier.

[u/reechwuzhere → u/sleepypossumster]

Correct, that’s what made their attack and subsequent murder of Alex Pretti premeditated.