A statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN:
"We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.
The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."
Even if we assume the Trump admin isn’t lying about him being armed- The right says guns exist to protect us from a tyrannical government. But when masked government agents start abducting people, exercising that right somehow becomes proof you deserved to be executed?
@DaveDiCello I lived in Colorado at the time and had to work in Columbus. As a penguins fan I HAD to go see a game in Pittsburgh and was able to see the duck. A wonderful memory.
Gun violence and political violence are abhorrent. Actively celebrating it, while standing on a pedestal of moral superiority, doesn’t make you right. It makes you a hypocrite. I’m ashamed of my affiliation to this party right now.