Going to try to take a break from X.
If you don’t see me for a the time being, just know I’m trying to unhook & decide if moving on from this acct is best for my mental health. If I don’t return, know that I’m happy & ok & don’t worry abt me! I’ll see y’all in Valhalla.👋
I believe ICE has a fundamental duty to enforce our immigration laws, carry out deportations when required, and protect American citizens. While these incidents are tragic, no one should call for abolishing the agency over them. ICE includes many dedicated officers who do their jobs responsibly every day. I hope such events never happen again.
My thoughts and prayers are with the victims Renée Nicole Good, Alex Pretti, and their families, who have suffered unimaginable loss. These tragedies highlight the need for careful, accountable enforcement that protects public safety and maintains trust.
We must support our law enforcement while ensuring full investigations bring transparency and prevent future mistakes.
Trump has every right to enforce federal immigration law at scale.
He campaigned on that and won.
But we are also entitled to government leaders with some amount of credibility.
Not buffoons who dress up in costumes for TV hits and repeatedly lie and spread false information about matters of life and death.
Trump should fire Secretary Kristi Noem. And if he won’t, then Congress should impeach and remove her.
I've slowed this down.
In the huddle, one or more ICE officers shout 'GUN'. This caused another officer to draw his sidearm.
Another officer removed the man's sidearm, and then walked away, but it was discharged negligently (see for yourself).
The Sig P320 is notorious for NDing, but typically only when dropped.
That then triggered the other agents to think that the man on the ground, Alex Pretti, had begun shooting, so they neutralised the perceived threat.
If this is what happened, it's an incredibly unfortunate accident in Minneapolis.
We can support ICE and enforcing immigration laws without agreeing with all their tactics or actions. It's that simple.
@Philrages is correct. Both sides are not innocent from this here. All attempts by both the right and the left to purposely incite unrest must stop ASAP.
Most of you guys are sitting comfortably behind the keyboard wanting a civil war.
This isn’t a game. This isn’t something to wish for.
I call on all parties to sit down and chill out.
If you are promoting political violence you’re getting unfollowed and muted.
@nospin911 I'm going off of my admittedly not-so-great eyes which aren't great at processing these footage, so I may have stuff incorrect. But that's just my opinion, you're free to disagree.
Unlike w/ Good, where I believe there was self-defense, Pretti's death is more ambiguous, but on the side of avoidable tragedy. In other words, both sides had missteps that shouldn't have happened.
But there should be an investigation. We can support ICE & common sense.
You have a right to carry PEACEFULLY for protection.
But if you risk violence w/o just cause, law enforcement has the right to respond accordingly.
If Pretti's death was justified is unclear. But the 2A issue is another attempt to divide us that we need to avoid.
Both MAGA and principalists r reacting wrong to the gun issue. It's simple: you're allowed to carry. But you aren't allowed to threaten & resist w/o actual cause.
Not to justify or blame Pretti(more'll be revealed), but the 2A issue's a misstep that'll only harm us, not help us.
@nospin911 Exactly. I don't believe ICE handled everything correctly, but I do not believe Pretti is an innocent man who we should make a martyr UNLESS new evidence says something different.
You might criticize me for agreeing w/ Erick, but he's right. Noem was questionable from day 1, and it's clear she shouldn't be DHS Sec.
Homan prioritized what's right. Noem has prioritized spectacle & missteps everywhere. If Trump wants to regain the narrative, she must go.
A lot of what is happening now is Kristi Noem marginalized Tom Homan and the head of Border Patrol because those two prioritized deportations of criminals and gang members. Noem and Corey Lewandowski wanted broad, public round-ups without prioritizing the illegal aliens. They have bypassed Homan and the head of Border Patrol and elevated Greg Bovino because they want the public confrontations and displays. And that's not the progressive press reporting this. That's the conservative Fox News, New York Post, and Washington Examiner:
https://t.co/MDJw6FNRQh
https://t.co/aBjpYblcWS
https://t.co/22Pvau15EJ
It is not just Tim Walz and Jacob Frey driving tensions. It is a policy choice made by the Secretary of Homeland Security and those around her because they thought it would make for great coverage.
Yes, you absolutely can carry at a protest. Anyone who tells you otherwise is an anti-2A statist.
No, you absolutely cannot interrupt a federal op while armed and tussle with LEO. That's how tragic things happen.
This isn't rocket science.
Today's question isn't just if there was a threat, but if ICE had reasonable assumption that there was & acted correctly.
I don't see proof either way rn. As such, I don't think it's fair for us to judge 100% rn. I'm holding off on saying any more abt this w/o more evidence.
Can you?
Can you allow police to assist both citizens and ICE so this kind of chaos is reduced?
It’s becoming increasingly worrying that local and state leaders in MN appear to want these kind of confrontations to be happening.
@EricLDaugh This is simply dangerous from Walz. There's nothing that proves either side & would say that ICE was wrong or right. But Walz wants to talk about "federal agents being wrong". If Walz wants to know part of why his state is seeing riots and chaos, he should look in the mirror.
@RPP_TheReal If Argentina, too, also was in a war with another nation, I'm sure Democrats wouldn't care what government it was and want to send all our weapons and money.
@WilliamTaftStan Yeah, if you see that, it's fair to say that. I just can't see anything to say clearly that the events prove either reasonable assumption or excessiveness.
Then again, my eyes are not the greatest, so I'm not the right person to ask...😓
If you wonder if our society is polarized, look no further than the fact that people are jumping to conclusions based on grainy footage that tells us nothing and a bunch of still images.