Watch the video and ask yourself when ICE inquired about his ID.
Then ask yourself if the penalty for carrying a licensed firearm without a license is death.
These people are deeply unserious and incredibly dangerous.
The most galling bit of propaganda is the repetition of "interfering with a police operation" when the "operation" was (illegally) beating up two women.
I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.
After all this is over, we need to pass a law that makes social media posts from official agency accounts like this subject to perjury. It is too destructive to the country to let them keep lying and lying and lying without any possible legal remedy.
To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.
They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.
I understand if you don't want to watch a video of a man die but this is, unequivocally, a guy just getting grabbed off the street, maced, and shot to death by agents of the state in the span of about 30 seconds. No acts of violence, no threat to the agents, just a murder.
The amount of people who think civilians should always remain calm around law enforcement but give “trained” law enforcement passes to be scared or excitable is truly astounding
It’s so obvious he didn’t fear for his life. He feared losing control over a stranger, he feared a temporary pang of embarrassment from a woman ignoring him. That’s why there were 3 shots. No one thinks she was a crazed murderer. They just hate that she didn’t bend
This is really one of the more galling parts of this discourse every time it pops up; random American civilians are supposed to be calm, disciplined, ice-water in their veins, but armed agents of the state are entitled to take life on the basis of “feelings”
You’re watching in real time the government turning against its own citizens. They murdered a woman in cold blood and now they’re smearing her as a domestic terrorist.
J.D. Vance just now, while calling Renee Good a terrorist: "You have a woman who aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator. Nobody debates that."
In fact many people debate this, since it's false. Good did not "aim" her car at the officer. He was in front of it because he walked there, and she was turning *away* from him as he shot her.