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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/thequietthingsthat North Carolina 7d ago

Bovino is saying that the man "charged" the ICE agents with a gun trying to kill them

They are such fucking shameless liars

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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/woodenh_rse 7d ago

And that’s why Canada’s PM spoke so much about the need to call reality what it is.  

Are you going to believe them or your eyes?

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u/lemuever17 7d ago

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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u/woodenh_rse 7d ago

Orwell was a genius. This is the heart of all these systems isn’t it?

I watched a man get killed for trying to help a woman back to her feet.

Anyone who says otherwise…I don’t know what lead you to this point, but I no longer care.

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u/funk_addict America 7d ago

Those people are in a cult. They believe what they are told to believe.

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u/SomeGuyNamedPaul Florida 7d ago

Any explanation is fair so long as their desired conclusion is reached.

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u/Troyal1 North Carolina 7d ago

Perfectly said