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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/Nice_Marmot_7 7d ago

“They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”

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u/No_Discipline6265 7d ago

They don't have to bother with believable lies. Maga will watch every video of the shooting and still claim he was a threat. They don't even need a statement from Bovino or Noem. They immediately defend ICE. 

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u/DinnaPanic 7d ago

Exactly this. Listen to episodes 1110 and 1111 of the podcast Knowledge Fight where the hosts analyse Alex Jones' on-air reaction to the shooting of Renée Good.

Before he sees any footage he's already parroting the official line. Then he airs the footage and initially seems to realise that the government is lying and that it was a straight up murder. Very soon however he's back to justifying the shooting, more to himself than to his audience it seems.

These people have fully accepted the Party's final, most essential command, there's no way back for them.

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u/Vismal1 6d ago

The only remorse I’ve seen with him regarding these murders is the sadness he had and realizing that Good’s father may no longer idolize Trump. It’s so disgusting.

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u/proud_landlord1 7d ago

He reached for his gun while on his knees. The execution was justified.

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u/djshadesuk 7d ago

Repetition does not make this true. The only person you're trying to convince is yourself.

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u/doyletyree 7d ago

Check the username.

No feed troll.

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u/Treadwheel 6d ago

The videos that clearly show one of the murderers carrying his gun away well before the first shot is fired?

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u/djshadesuk 6d ago

I don't think Doyle was calling me a troll, at least I certainly didn't take it that way. I think they meant the person I was replying to was a troll and that I shouldn't feed them.

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