Let me explain why Nazis (aka ICE) murdered Alex Pretti today

No Firearm is being Brandished

 First, let me say something about the man whom J.D. Vance, Kristi Noem, and Stephen Miller ordered murdered today.  He apparently was an ICU nurse who often worked with VA patients.  A local resident with legal permit to carry and with no criminal history.

What's clear is ICE have been given standing orders to engage in maximum confrontation and use maximum force at all times with protestors, witnesses, and migrants.  This is evidenced by every recorded ICE interaction you see where they engage in maximum intimidation and threats and buttressed by the verbal support of "absolute immunity" J.D. Vance and Stephen Miller have repeated shouted whenever possible.  And in response to yesterday's show of protest by thousands of people in Minneapolis in which ICE appeared weak they determined to regain control and exert their authority.

Let me give you a story of my training 20 years ago at PTI in Champaign-Urbana.  The training exercise one day was about Terry Stops and proper Search & Seizure.  In the incident you and a partner approach an individual who may or may not be committing a minor misdemeanor offense.  In my first situation, a business calls about a drunk customer whom they would like to leave.  No threats or violence have occurred yet.

So, in the exercise when we approach the role-player he's verbally defiant but clearly provides no physical resistance.  Basically, I'm not gonna go.   I should also point out this exercise was one of many to teach a proper head-to-toe search of the role-player who may or may not be carrying something.  So eventually after not being able to convince him with what used to be called Verbal Judo we have to escort him out or place him under arrest.

These training situations were not meant to stump the rookie officers as role-players usually only lightly hid the item which could be found if you conducted even a cursory search.  In my exercise, as I placed his hands behind his back, I spotted a practice firearm tucked into his rear waistband.  I immediately grabbed it with my right hand.  The training supervisor told me to stop and asked, 'Okay now what are you going to do?'  

The point was with a gun in my right hand and only my left holding his left arm (the training partner had the other arm) how were you going to secure the gun and handcuff the man if things went awry?  You can't or shouldn't try and jam a firearm into your pocket while in this stress situation you can't put it on the ground.  So, wouldn't it be better if you left the gun where it was (after all it can't be fired) and maintain control of the individual while you handcuff him and then retrieve the weapon?

This group of Terrorists killed 
an American today

So, let's go to the incident today in which ICE Nazis attacked and eventually murdered Alex Pretti.  Pretti is recording with his phone and watching ICE when one agent gets in his face, that little Nazi then violently pushes a second person over and Pretti gets somewhat in between them.  The little Nazi, of course immediately goes to chemical weapons (i.e. oleoresin capsicum spray) and sprays Pretti.  While Pretti is moving away with his hands up to try to shield his face and the woman is still laying on the ice and sidewalk the instigating Nazi continues spraying OC and other Nazis descend, knock Pretti to the ground, and begin striking him, including one who appears to pistol-whip (like an untrained baboon the ICE Nazi is using his large can of OC spray to hit) Pretti.  It's at this point as his jacket and clothing become undone, one agent spots the firearm in his waistband (not in Pretti's hands not on the ground nearby) grabs it and probably yells gun and runs off.  1, 2 or 3 of the other Agents then begin shooting, because one has in the video already taken his firearm out for some stupid reason, and because they have stress tunnel vision and no qualms, hitting him multiple times killing Pretti.

No gun being brandished
Just a Nazi pushing a woman down
and preparing to attack witnesses

This killing is 100% the result of a bunch of semi-trained, amped up Nazis not knowing how to respond in a situation like this other than to go to deadly force.  A situation in which ironically more training would have helped but, that's not the orders ICE is operating under.  They are operating as a domestic paramilitary terrorist squad and 100% are engaged in use of force violations as standard operating procedure. 

This is straight up unlawful use of force, a violation of multiple 4th Amendment SCOTUS rulings, and a murder charge for multiple agents.

Pretti is not impeding an arrest or doing anything within the purview of ICE's mission, but, like I wrote ICE and CBP, and DHS seem to have orders to immediately ratchet up the use of force ladder to violent physical confrontation at all times.

What's especially important is immediately DHS and Kristi Noem thought it imperative and important to brazenly lie about the interaction immediately.  The first statements from DHS were Pretti was brandishing his firearm and going to commit a mass shooting of ICE Agents.  This is of course a total lie, but it's the story rightwing media is running with as evidenced by the New York Post headline.

Stephen Miller branded Pretti a domestic terrorist and blamed Governor Walz, Mayor Frey and Senator Kloubachar for insurrection...

"Violently resisted"
"Fearing for his life"
"fired defensive shots"
Chat GPT slop and 100% lies 

Of course, this isn't true but as I've stated repeatedly first Republicans murder your body, then they murder your memory.  And the Republican response is to always go maximal dishonesty and character assassination and flood the zone with lies and bullshit to ensure the truth (even in stark unedited video) is not believed by their ghoulish gang of Nazis.  And let's be clear every Republicans is in favor of this killing because they assume the person killed is a politically opposed to them. 

But, remember Stephen Miler, Noem, Vance, Trisha McLaughlin, whatever asshole on Faux News, OAN, Newsmax wherever don't lie to deceive they lie to demonstrate power and to defend blatantly indefensible. 

In response, to this murder, DHS officials apparently tried to take control over the crime scene (to contaminate it) took custody of witnesses, published pictures of evidence to social media, and ordered local police away from the area.  The Minneapolis Police Chief pushed back but, remember Republicans always want to win in the Court of Public Opinion and don't care about the actual courts because they know they can delay and drag out proceedings for years and might win the case with their tainted evidence and outright perjury.

This murder is not going to cause anyone in the Trump administration to pull back and re-evaluate.  That's what Losers do and Trump and his cabal of Nazis are Winners.  They are going to re-double ICE's efforts and more Agents are going to threaten protestors with being killed while mocking Us.  This is what they Voted For after all...

Additional:

KKKristi Noem once again called the extrajudicial murder of an American an act of domestic terrorism.  Once again I will remind you that if you are against trump and MAGA you are definitionally a domestic terrorism and they are already to summarily execute you.  Republicans are planning on killing millions, this is just a prelude.