@redheadranting You said it plenty loud. But somehow it seems it needs to be spoken in a more influential way for the young ones new to this list we call America. Sad kids are being introduced to this “America” I’m a millennial and I was introduced to pure shit. But damn this.
Just for the record - we are not all nut cases, fraudsters, or dildo carrying liberals in Minnesota.
Some of us are quite pleasant.
We follow the rules, we keep to ourselves and we love our country.
All we want is to enjoy a cold beer on the lake for the few months we get summer.
Typical Minnesotans hate that the spotlight has been shining on us for two years.
Thanks for coming to my Red Talk.
Being a Minnesota used to demand respect.
We live in the frozen tundra, a place most people can't imagine living in, but we do it and thrive. We eat weird food - lefse, pickled herring, and other colorless food that only Brits would find appealing.
Anyone can eat a chimichanga or pizza, but most people draw the line at fish preserved in lye.
We get three months of weather that doesn't require boots, mittens, hats and snow shovels - and we squeeze all the joy out of those months while at our cabins in Wisconsin.
We used to be considered salt of the earth, hard working folks.
Now we're known for fraud and we have elected leaders who are known for their tampons, and eating their salad with a comb. And yet none of them are actually Minnesotan.
How did we get here, and how do we get out of here?
I spent a good deal of time finding all the videos I could find on the Pretti shooting in Minnesota.
It is clear from them that during the scuffle, an officer saw the weapon and yelled "Gun". The officers who fired were not aware of Pretti being disarmed (it's easy for us watching it frame by frame).
The weapon discharged as the removing officer retreated (P320), which triggered the other officers to react and fire.
In the video below, the officer can clearly be seen searching for the weapon, thinking it's still on Pretti.
This investigation will probably go into Pretti's networks and his affiliation with Anti-Ice organised groups.
It is unreasonable, in the heat of the moment, where split seconds mean the difference between life and death, to expect any of those officers to have seen the weapon being removed.
Pretty messy situation where everything that could go wrong did.
The moral of the story here is not to be in stupid places, with stupid people, doing stupid things. As a responsible firearm owner, your job is to practise avoidance and de-escalation. Anything other is a roll of the dice, and Pretti caught the bad end of the stick here, where everything that could go wrong did.
I don't see culpable homicide sticking here either, because any prudent person would have returned fire after the first shot broke in this situation.
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.