Not a clear cut flagrant two. This has obviously been building due to the refs inability to call fouls when the wolves are fouling Wemby.
He was fouled before that, and was simply trying to rip the ball away from another player which was drenched on his back in which coincidentally was “not a foul”
Minnesota hacks Wemby every single time down the floor (including on this play) but the one time he responds he gets ejected.
If you isolate the play it’s obviously a flagrant 2, but I just don’t understand how the refs don’t take context into consideration here.
I wasn’t happy when Clinton, Obama or Biden won, but I didn’t call them fascist/dangerous/threat to democracy. I didn’t hope someone would assassinate them. I went on with my life with gratitude. Friends on the left, please try this. Your life and our country will be better.
Regarding Alex Pretti:
My timeline is filled with left-wingers trying to use this agitator's death for their political ends.
Half of the right is framing this guy as a terrorist-to-be, "he brought too much ammo," "he didn't have his ID," "he shouldn't have been armed," and whatever else that contradicts their arguments during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and other 2nd Amendment issues.
The other half of the right are calling this a bi-partisan issue of government overreach. "The American government should not be able to execute citizens like this!" As if this guy didn't put himself, the people around him, and federal agents into a dangerous position.
Only a few people have any actual connection to reality. Pretti had a right to carry his firearm and whatever else he had (no, I really don't care that his ID wasn't on him). But exercising this right also comes with additional responsibilities. Introducing a firearm into a potential conflict immediately augments its gravity.
Pretti was fully in the right to carry, but under no circumstances should he have been physically resisting an officer of the law. The chances of him getting shot in such an altercation are extremely high, as the officers now have to react to the existence of that firearm during a struggle.
The idea that we should expect law enforcement officers, even if they were the best men among us, to wrestle with armed men and to completely disregard their own safety is simply a fantasy.
And to be clear, I am not saying that one forfeits their right to life simply because they are armed and encounter the police. Kyle Rittenhouse is a great example of this. When confronted, he raised his hands and informed officers he was armed. He complied with their orders. No one got hurt.
It doesn't even really matter what the law is, or what your rights are, in a moment like that. If two armed parties engage in a struggle, the chance of lethal force being applied is substantial. A cop will fear for his life just as much as anyone else, and is an enforcer of the state's monopoly on violence. If you choose to test his mettle, you are playing a very dangerous game.
If you want whatever legal principle you are standing for to be honored - take it to the courtroom. That's your best chance. If you try to find justice with a policeman, and you die, it really doesn't even matter if you're in the right. You're dead, and no, there is no justice that can make you whole again. This is why you need to de-escalate confrontations with the police, and be extremely measured in your actions.
So, it feels the response from the right should be obvious: an armed man physically resisted the police and it got messy. It's terrible, but we can't reasonably expect otherwise from a bunch of men being actively harassed by interferers and then finding out one of the people wrestling with you has a weapon.
The cops do not have frame-by-frame technology in that moment. Things happen fast (possible misfire of Pretti's sig), and decisive action is necessary.
Pretti didn't have to die. Do not interfere with law enforcement, and especially do not do so while being armed.
As always, it's also important to contrast the media outrage of Pretti's death with the complete silence that occurs from the corporate press when Americans are killed by illegal immigrants.
The deportations must continue.
To those of you that think you “hate” President Trump
There has never been a better day to realize half of our nation has been under mass hypnosis
Of course it’s a good thing to liberate the Venezuelans and crush the flow of drugs into America
WAKE UP
Saying Donald Trump doesn’t want healthcare for working-class Americans is pure gaslighting.
Democrats are using a filibuster and blocking a clean CR, playing a major role in this shutdown.
Trump and Republicans are working to keep people insured, reduce the interest burden, and stop abuse of the system.
Rob Schneider: "When you absolutely lie to the public, then you are no longer in the public interest. Like Jimmy Kimmel did the other night, mislead and lie…"
A great mentor once told me that the greatest insights usually come from noticing what's not there.
You know what I notice? Never once since Charlie Kirk was assassinated have I worried about the possibility of riots, burning of cities, "autonomous zones" or violence in the streets.
And this is for a decent family man murdered in cold blood for his political opinions.
In the summer of 2020, all of those things happened across America and many other countries too. Over a career criminal who died in a police interaction with a negligent and careless cop. Politicians kneeled, media organisations held minutes of silence and billions were given to BLM in the very days that their supporters burned down entire districts of American cities and killed people to "fight racism". To this day there has not been a shred of evidence presented that George Floyd's death had anything to do with racism.
So no, I don't believe either party has a monopoly on political violence. We've seen left wing politicians attacked and killed too. It's just as awful and just as wrong.
But I also think it's worth noticing what's not there and thinking about why.
"My first instinct was exactly what such people would delight in happening. To watch the rest of us recoil, then retract, and perhaps even eject. To leave the internet for a while or forever. But I can't do that. We shouldn't do that." https://t.co/2zsicNsNta
Ben Ferguson on Stephen Colbert: "When you do a show that attacks 1/2 of America every night and you don't have conservatives on, and by the way, you're not funny, but attacking 1/2 of America and your ratings suck. You might lose your show."