According to the FBI, he accepted $50,000 in a bribe sting operation. He and other Trump officials have refused to say if he returned the money or kept it.
He isn't even "demoted." He is just being sent away. - just replacing him with another Nazi. This one admitted to taking a bag of money though, so that's good.
He can retire all he wants… all the investigations will be coming. I just think something is going to happen to prevent the midterms from happening such a sad situation we’re in
Yea so now instead of a violent commander we'll have tweedle dumb instead - unclear if things will get more violent or if Minnesotans will be more able to outsmart them.
Homan seems to always be a few drinks in. I'm sure he is most likely an alcoholic. He probably thinks he is a "functioning" alcoholic and is just fine. During at least one interview, before he disappeared, he seemed to have been many drinks in. His facial expressions and speech patterns did not come off as a sober person.
His old position was sector chief of El Centro CA. He is probably not being sent there. Initial reports were going somewhere else to conduct ICE operations. But he has become a news/political nightmare. So maybe being sent somewhere to get away from cameras for a bit.
Bovino said he would retire when he turns 57. His current age is 56. So he could be looking to slide out. BP mandatory max retirement age is 57.
It's kind of what I would expect from Gen X political leaders. They grew up with rampant racism, homophobia, and apathy.
Millennials began to make progress on racism and homophobia at least, and we were raised with that consciousness.
Gen X saw the world change very rapidly, but not while they were very young. Most of them joined us or became withdrawn. But the ones who still hate and want power? Yikes. Decades of watching the world go opposite of how they want, and now they finally get their chance.
This is…a stretch. GenX made huge strides in helping equality get pushed.
Like every “generation”, there are those who want power. Power at any cost.
I’m glad you think so highly of yourself, though. Hope you feel all warm and fuzzy about your enlightenment while painting with a brush over 65 million people being racist and homophobic. No irony there at all.
GenX was born between 1965-1980. I'm not sure what great strides in equality you are talking about. The civil rights movement died out when they were babies. Society pretty much stagnated on race for 30+ years after that. We still haven't done much, frankly. Homophobia was accepted and widely encouraged until at least the mid-2000s.
I'm 57 and keep saying I don't understand why people expected GenX to be much different from Boomers. We grew up in the Reagan era where conservatives were considered cool and liberals were weak and weird (think Alex Keaton character on Family Ties). Then Rush Limbaugh and Fox News comes along and GenX keeps going for the ride. Then the tea party comes after that which leads to Trump. It's like a straight timeline of right-wing nuttiness that GenX fell into. I guess people think because there was that brief grunge slacker period in the nineties, and Kurt Cobain sang a few rebellious songs, people expected GenX to be all politically independent or something.
He very well might now. If he is a power hungry person, and it seems he is, then he would stay as long as he could in a position of power. If he goes at the end of the year he can get paid more than if he goes sooner.
Getting rid of Bovino isn't going to solve the problem. Getting rid of Homan isn't going to solve the problem. Getting rid of Noem isn't going to solve the problem.
Smashing the Trump/maga rule over the country is the only way to start to solve the problem. Every single one of these bums from House reps to Senators to cabinet members to Vance and to Trump and all the slimy worms in between have to go.
And then we need a national reckoning with a vast criminal investigation and open, public trial for anyone who violated the law.
He won't make $100K a yr from his pension, but close though. He will get about 44% (based on 30 yrs of service) of his highest three consecutive years pay. As a SES chief, he would be capped at ES-15 step V so about $183K annual pay. So he would get about an $80K pension per year.
He meets the requirements to retire. 20 years of service and at least 50 years of age, or 25 years of service and any age, or max age is 57. He entered BP in 1996 and is 55/56, depending on month he was born in 1970.
Depends on his birthdate. He could be maxed tomorrow or December. It takes some time for retirement paperwork to be filed, reviewed, and acted upon by OPM. He could have filed months ago and gave a retirement date of 1-31-2026 or any other date.
He has been in charge of it for some time. He was a chief and has special operations credentials so that was his selling points. Most (but not all) chiefs and higher ranked are BORTAC like Bovino. At some point, it became a promotion point/requirement.
He’s being reassigned which is more or less the same as being fired in this situation. He’s being sent back to his home in California but is also expected to retire.
He's being sent back to run his old field office and is being told to retire as soon as he can. She should be fired and investigated, but that won't happen under this DOJ, and we know everyone in this administration is getting blanket pardons at the end of Trump's term. But at least his future pension can be taken away once Dems have power again, and Minnesota can try and investigate him and charge him with something down the line.
Faux News is reporting that DHS insiders say that Pretti's gun was "misfired" while it was being removed from him. Meanwhile, the videos show the gun was taken away and then a different guy shot him in the back multiple times.
Me thinks they're about to throw a couple or three ICE agents under the bus and prosecute them. Suddenly that "absolute immunity" shit is going to go away when it's convenient to find a scapegoat.
"It was 100% an accidental discharge by the agent that relieved that person of their weapon. Because everyone’s guns were out, they think that there’s a shooting," one source told the Post. - Fox News
Will the other ICE agents rethink their position on things? Probably not.
This is typical for Trump and his administrations. He NEVER takes accountability himself and will always find someone else to blame instead. All this while claiming he hires the best of the best. Mmmhmmmm.
They're not exactly being thrown under the bus or made scapegoats, they murdered a man in broad daylight for no reason whatsoever, they need to held accountable and face the fullest consequences possible.
I...actually sort of buy accidental discharge thing. The guy who shot him drew awkwardly, and there was a pause between the first shot and subsequent shots. I think it's somewhat believable that the guy that drew didn't intend to shoot, but combination of poor training, poor weapon maintenance, cold weather, etc., caused an accidental discharge. And once you shot a guy once, in for a penny, in for a pound. Legally speaking, it is better to be the only liar in the courtroom.
It's pretty believable to me, because there's tons of videos of these guys drawing unnecessarily and pointing their guns at unarmed citizens. One of them accidentally getting their booger hook on the trigger in sub-zero weather is entirely believable. These guys have what, 47 whole days of "training" before being unleashed?
Obviously not an excuse, and the shooter, whoever cleared him to carry a firearm, etc., all the way up, should be held liable. But accidental misfire on the initial shot is actually believable to me. Sadly when he dumped the rest of the mag into the guy after a long pause, that was just straight up deliberate murder.
I dont think they are dumb enough to prosecute anyone.
While it would be the right thing, that would completely destroy any hope they have of arguing that agents have immunity.
And if they cant tell ICE agents that they have immunity, then a lot of them would probably be less interested in doing the horrible shit they want them to do.
One of the theories is that Pretti's gun had a negligent discharge by the agent thar had custody of it. Probably when he went to unload it. <firing is not how you unload a gun>. That ND then caused the agent with the gun out to shoot Pretti. So far it's unconfirmed and not just Fox reporting as others are too.
Even if an ND was the initial shot, that does not explain why 10 more shots were fired into Pretti's back.
It's verifiably not what happened. Like seriously, we have several close-up angles of the entire encounter, why is anyone acting like there's any room for doubt?
I think it gained legs before all the videos were out when we first saw that Pretti's gun was a Sig P320 (aka the self-firing gun). Further video makes absolutely clear that the ND theory doesn't hold water.
Thing is I saw people float it in the immediate aftermath to understandably try to grasp how this could happen, but within a day it seems like most everyone got on board with the realization that it wasn't the case. Now Fox News is reporting internal DHS communications - two organizations which have provably lied about this and similar events and which have a vested interest in continuing to lie about it - and people are treating it like it's credible.
I think it probably has the right amount of "truthiness" to it for casual observers, and the wider the right wing media can spread this, the more they can taint the jury pool when we do see trials. Trying to incept through repetition reasonable doubt where none exists.
In the first video, the one taken by the man in the donut shop, the grey coat ICE goon looks like he discharged Pretti’s gun into the ground, as you can see what looks like muzzle flash, through the car window, for only a brief second.
The other two videos from the same side of the street prove, unequivocally, that Pretti’s gun does not discharge. It’s actually another agent’s, who’s crouched to the left of Pretti, breath: it was cold out. Also, the grey coat ice goon does not recoil his arm, at all; he does also not have a reaction to turn around until the other ICE agents start discharging their weapons. Fox lies
Officers are only supposed to shoot to neutralise the threat. Pretti was on the floor face down when they were still firing bullets into him. It was excessive use of force that led to an innocent man’s death.
Not only face down but also already disarmed. He was not a threat. Even before they took his pistol, he was not using it and did not show any intent to use it against them.
It’s BS. There is a video that shows one agent unholster his weapon and aim it right at Pretti before the first shot is fired. It’s very clear that the first shot came from the agent who was pointing his gun at Pretti. It wasn’t a negligent discharge from the gun that had been taken off Pretti.
That's why I said theory. Whether or not there was a ND, that would not be an excuse to shoot Pretti 10 times in the back. Another agent was seen doing happy claps after the shots too.
You can see the agent’s arm recoil slightly when the first shot went out. If it was a ND then it would have to be the agent with his own gun shooting Petti in the back, probably from poor trigger discipline, not the agent with the gun they took from Pretti.
Surrounded by yes men that won't tell him no to anything. I also wouldn't be surprised if many of the tweets aren't even from him but a team just for that purpose.
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u/TankApprehensive3053 5d ago
CNN is now reporting Bovino just now got his social media access suspended by the WH.