From: the.happy.hippy.nntp@ntlworld.invalid   
      
   https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-pretti-ice-murder-trump   
      
      
      
   The Trump administration’s secret police force has again murdered someone in   
   broad daylight and is blatantly lying about it. It’s time to abolish ICE.   
      
   Alex Pretti was an intensive care unit nurse at a Veterans’ Affairs hospital   
   in Minneapolis.   
      
   Now he’s dead at the age of thirty-seven — the same age as Renee Good, who   
   was murdered a little over two weeks earlier in the same city.    
      
   Both were American citizens. Both were shot to death by federal agents in the   
   streets of Minneapolis while they were unarmed.   
      
   Subsequent statements by the Department of Homeland Security have emphasized   
   that Pretti had a gun on him at the beginning of the altercation. But   
   Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara has said that Pretti, who had no   
   criminal record, had a valid    
   permit to carry the gun. And the video evidence is decisive. He never tried to   
   pull it, and it had already been confiscated before they killed him.   
      
   And even if it had still been on his person when he was shot, it would have   
   been entirely irrelevant. We haven’t repealed the Second Amendment and   
   passed a law mandating that anyone caught with a handgun can be executed on   
   the spot, even if they never    
   draw it.   
      
      
      
   While the Trump Dictatorship embraces evil, decent American folk are rightly   
   appalled and pissed at the illegality of the Trump Administration, the lies   
   they tell.   
      
   It's real simple - You either support evil or you are against it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)