• AreaKode@riskeratspizza.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    108
    ·
    20 hours ago

    All I’ve heard so far is that he “had a gun”. Even if this is true, holding a gun is not a crime. This was a fucking execution.

    • imrighthere@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      71
      ·
      20 hours ago

      It was in his waistband, at the small of his back. You can see an agent lift his shirt and take the gun, then you hear the first shot. Agent with his gun runs away, other agents magdump on the man.

      • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        19 hours ago

        I bet that idiot got him shot because the rest of them didn’t notice it getting taken then freaked out when it was gone

        • arrow74@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          21
          ·
          17 hours ago

          Latest angles show the gun had been removed and the other agent had enough time to see. Also the suspect was face down on the ground before he was shot in the back.

          He was held to the ground and executed

        • imrighthere@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          35
          ·
          19 hours ago

          Watch the video, straight up murder, they had already pistolwhipped him, he was done.

        • TheseusNow@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          4 hours ago

          There are a lot of videos. I think the guy that initially pepper sprayed him and another protester is the one that also shoots him 4 times in the back. Then I think another couple of shots came from others afterwards.

          They shoved a protester to the ground. The guy tries to help them up and is repeatedly pepper sprayed along with the other protester. They then gang on him while he continues to try and help the protester. They then have him on his knees, another one hits him repeatedly in the head with their pepper spray can when the initial guy puts up his pepper spray can and pulls out his gun and shoots him in the back.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      33
      ·
      edit-2
      18 hours ago

      Exercising Constitutional rights is now a capital offense in The People’s Republic of MAGAstan.

      Free speech? Death.
      Free assembly? Death.
      Keep or bear arms. Death.
      Privacy? Death.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      19 hours ago

      January 24, 2026 at 11:49 AM Sarah Nelson

      Homeland Security shares account of fatal shooting The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents were conducting a “targeted operation” in Minneapolis at 9:05 a.m. Saturday looking for “an illegal alien wanted for violent assault.”

      “An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun,” the agency said in a statement. “The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted.”

      “Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots,” the department’s statement continued. “Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene.”

      DHS said the man had two magazines and “no ID” and that more information would be coming.

      (source)

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        33
        ·
        19 hours ago

        Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37.
        No criminal history. A lawful gun owner with a valid conceal carry permit.

        • floofloof@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          21
          ·
          18 hours ago

          A nurse who studied at the University of Minnesota. Brave ICE thugs, boldly murdering poets and nurses.

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        18 hours ago

        Ah they can fuck off with their fearing for their lives. Cowards, and they need to fear more.

      • LePoisson@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        17 hours ago

        At this point maybe they should be getting reason(s) to fear for their lives because apparently you can be on the receiving end of nothing but peaceful protests for weeks, hell by now it’s many months in places, and still fear for your life.

        Also, this is the USA, we are allowed to have guns as civilians (for better or worse). Just being in possession of a firearm should be be a fucking pretense for murder.

        ICE is just begging to get shot and they’re going to deserve it when it finally does happen.

        • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          14 hours ago

          People said “if you show up armed they wont start shit like this”… Well here you go, that doesnt work for shit. If there is no peaceful way to stop them from killing you, then literally the only option left is to shoot them on sight.

        • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          10
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          19 hours ago

          Wtf? I was just correcting the person before me that using the word “holding” can be misunderstood. Using the word possession is clearer that he may have had one but not in his hand.

      • microphone900@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        19 hours ago

        Sure but that’s not what happened. We see that an ICE agent disarmed him, removed the pistol from his back waistband area while he’s on the ground getting beaten and pistol whipped on the head, AND THEN they shot him.

        • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          11
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          19 hours ago

          Again… I was just correcting the person before me that using the word “holding” can be misunderstood. Using the word possession is clearer that he may have had one but not in his hand.

          I am not a fascist, I am 100% against them.