“From the perspective of an attorney who has worked in this area of the law for 25 years(not me!) :
1. They created the escalation by going after an observer who was not in the way.
2. They escalated it to physical contact
3. They removed his lawfully carried firearm
4. There were multiple officers now holding him down and punching and beating him after disarming him.
5. They the murdered him and continued to shoot his lifeless body.
EVERYTHING FROM STEP 1 forward makes this illegal. Every action.”
You try to help a woman who's being physically assaulted by four men, and you are murdered for it. In broad daylight. By men who are being paid large bonuses to kill you.
We are being overloaded with disillusion, fear and heart-wrenching imagery, and at some point all you want to do is look away. And I'm a person that has a absurdly high tolerance for the obscenely grotesque - and even I am starting to react with a reflexive head-turn - an almost instinctual blocking out of the futility that I feel: a helpless feeling that hits me so deeply that it feels cowardly, and wincing back to the realization that I have to LOOK and keep looking, no matter how helpless I feel, keep fighting no matter how futile the fight looks - and just keep hoping that we all make it through this darkest of hours, before it all slips completely away.
Alex Pretti kept looking, filming and fighting - and most of all he kept helping. Helping a woman he didn't even know, solely because it was the right thing to do - and he lost his life because of it.
This is Donald Dummkopf's AmeriKa - and this is all by his design and it's exactly what he planned from the very start.
Rest In Peace Alex Pretti 1989 - 2026
Let me say this as clearly as possible, because people keep getting it wrong.
Republican lawmakers didn’t stick with Trump because they were hypnotized...terrified...or somehow helpless.
They stuck with him because he’s one of them.
Trump didn’t corrupt a moral party. He exposed a corrupt one.
If Trump were merely embarrassing...reckless...or rude... they would have dumped him years ago. Politicians abandon liabilities fast. What they don’t abandon...are mutual liabilities.
Trump normalized behavior that many of them were already guilty of: ethical shortcuts...financial murkiness... abuse of power...contempt for oversight... lying as policy.
He didn’t invent the rot...he gave it cover.
And here’s the part people don’t like to hear:
For a lot of Republicans in Congress, Trump isn’t the risk.
Accountability is.
Trump absorbs attention like a sponge. While everyone is watching his circus...others operate quietly in the shadows. He’s not a distraction...he’s a shield. A very useful one.
Once they crossed certain lines together...election lies, January 6th...obstruction...weaponization of government ...there was no clean exit.
Loyalty became self-preservation. Defection meant subpoenas...investigations...and career death.
That’s why the so-called “good Republicans” vanished.
They weren’t persuaded. They were purged. Retired. Primaried. Marginalized. What you’re seeing now isn’t universal agreement...it’s selection pressure.
Only those comfortable with ethical decay remain.
This is how systems rot. Not with villains twirling mustaches...but with people who decide, one compromise at a time, that survival matters more than principle.
Trump didn’t take over the GOP.
The GOP recognized itself in Trump.
And that’s why expecting them to “come to their senses” is a fantasy.
You can’t ask people to enforce standards that would incriminate them.
The alliance holds...because it has to.
That’s not psychology.
That’s incentive structure.
And until people stop confusing fear...with complicity... they’ll keep being shocked by behavior that was always predictable.
The federal government disarmed a legally registered gun owner with 8-9 federal agents and then dumped their magazines into 37 year old Alex Pretti murdering him in cold blood. He was only observing the scene with his cell phone. He did not brandish his firearm nor did he try to reach for the firearm. The federal government is lying. They must be held accountable. With actions, not words.