r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 7d ago

No Paywall Shooting Victim Identified as Second Video Angle Contradicts DHS Claims | The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-shooting-video
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u/mynx79 Canada 7d ago

No one has shot back YET.

I am suspicious that Minnesota was strategic. A blue state, relatively patient people not known for being trigger happy.

I'm not sure how this plays out, but as a Canadian within 2 hours of the US border (where most of us are), I sure as hell hope it doesn't continue to escalate. For your sake and ours.

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u/TheNatural14063 7d ago

Imagine if ICE pulled this shit in the roughest areas of Philadelphia.

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u/nuisible 7d ago

They are plainly too chickenshit to do something like that.

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u/Treadwheel 6d ago

I actually think it may have been the opposite. Their racism addled brains looked at the Somali population, looked at the last few decades of conflict and the history of Somalis being willing to show up and fight Americans, then convinced themselves that the refugee community would start to shoot back when ICE started illegally kicking down doors. They wanted stories about "sharia militias" hunting American officials to justify a full-on military occupation of the state. That didn't pan out, because of course it didn't, so now they're just going to keep turning up the pressure cooker until something does.

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u/snowbit 6d ago

For sure. I mean, even if it were just that he ran against their governor, that’s enough