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NYTimes posts slow motion video of Minnesota murder by Feds

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New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti
A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.
When federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, officials said he approached agents with a handgun, intending to massacre them. “An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol agents with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun.” “This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.” But a Times analysis of video footage from the scene in the moments when two officers opened fire, clearly contradict federal government statements. Pretti does not appear to pose a threat to agents. In fact, at several critical junctures, he is outnumbered and under their control. Here are the key moments that reveal what happened. We see Pretti walking about, filming a group of protesters who are speaking with a federal agent. He’s holding a cell phone in one hand. The other hand is empty. It’s just over 30 seconds before the shooting when a protester is pushed to the ground. Pretti steps between her and the agent who’d shoved her, briefly putting his hand on the agent’s waist. The agent pepper-sprays Pretti’s face. We can see Pretti is still holding his phone in one hand while holding his other hand up to protect himself against the spray. Contrary to statements by federal officials, he’s made no threatening movements towards agents. Pretti, who had a firearms permit, carries a gun holstered on his right hip, but he doesn’t reach for it. And it appears agents are unaware the gun is even there. He reaches toward the protester, apparently trying to help her up, while agents begin grabbing him from behind. He tries to pull away, and again he makes no threatening movements towards the agents. But agents pull him backwards and force him to the ground. Then shots ring out. [gunfire] Now we’ll slow things down, so each moment is clear. Here is Pretti. Several agents are restraining him. And this is the Border Patrol agent who will shoot him first. This appears to be when agents first notice that Pretti is carrying a firearm and yell that he has a gun. Watching the same moment from a different angle, the agent who first pepper-sprayed Pretti beats him several times with the spray canister. We can see that both of Pretti’s arms are pinned down by his head. This agent in gray reaches to remove Pretti’s weapon from his hip, as this agent unholsters his gun, nudges the agent in gray out of the way and fires. [gunfire] Let’s rewind and focus on the agent who shoots first. Just seconds before he fired, he was facing away from Pretti and focusing on an entirely different situation as he tries to spray a nearby woman with an irritant. The spray appears to malfunction, and the agent turns as he adjusts it. That’s when someone yells that Pretti has a gun. And around five seconds after fully turning his attention toward Pretti, the agent draws his weapon and shoots. [gunfire] His arm visibly recoils at the first shot. The firearm has clearly been removed from the scrum when the first shots are fired toward Pretti at close range. [gunfire] The officer who disarmed Pretti can be seen reacting to the sound of the first shot, looking back toward the skirmish. The shooter was standing behind Pretti and not under direct threat, contradicting statements from Homeland Security officials that he fired defensive shots. He also has a vantage point to see the gun pulled from the scene, but it’s unclear if he did and whether he thought a weapon was still on Pretti. He then fires three more shots from behind Pretti, whose arms are down as he appears to brace himself against the pavement. In one hand, he still holds his phone, and in his other, his glasses. The agent in gray, who removed Pretti’s gun, carries it across the street. Pretti is disarmed and falling to the ground. But the agent who first pepper-sprayed Pretti and later beat him with a canister, also pulls out his gun. From a distance, despite the fact that Pretti is lying motionless on the ground, these two agents fire six more shots. Neither is under threat. [screaming] [gunfire, screaming] In total, the agents fire 10 shots in five seconds. After the shooting, an agent kneeling next to Pretti’s body asks where the gun is — — showing that not all of the officers seem to know the weapon had been removed. Agents appear to begin giving medical aid. About 31 seconds elapsed from the time agents first physically engaged Pretti to the moment the last shot was fired.

I don't blame Trump for shooting Mr. Petti. I blame him for not taking the lead in getting to the bottom of this murder committed by pigs under his command.

He would silence most of his critics by doing so. The one thing this guy is good at is television. I do not believe that he does not realize that the smart media move would be to throw these particular out of control pigs under his management under the bus.

I repeat, criticize the deed not the dude. Trump is supposed to make sure that the people under his command NOT murder citizens or immigrants.

Resign now!

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Team Trump will say the radical leftist New York Times used AI to concoct this bullshit video. And take legal action for their defamation of great American heroes protecting us from terrorists and drug cartels.

The end of objective reality and The Orange Fart Cloud.

What we are up against.

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@fire with fire @fire with fire
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pretty sure team Trump will sue for a billion $.
That is the relative worth of his fee-fees anyway.

One you lose the NY Times, your ship is sinking
in the propaganda sea. Maybe shoot the messenger
is the best he can do at this point?

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Zionism is a social disease

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gonna pig. But at least we can still laugh, quietly and in the privacy of our own homes- for the next few days at least, before the telescreens named Siri and Alexa out us all to Palantir, and the dobers show up at our doors.

So, with that in mind, here is some entirely inappropriate humor.

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

@usefewersyllables Trump is probably over by the end of the year. This absurd shit is not necessarily what the Big Money wants. Those fuckers already have control of everything and they don't need Trump's ego. I suspect that he will turn up dead before the end of his term -- Wingnut Martyr.

It is possible that this Minnesota caper could become the Exit Stage Loonie for Donnie Blowhard. He's worth more dead than alive to his sponsors.

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and so admitting wrongdoing is not going to happen. There was a YouTuber that went through the definition of narcissism in DSM-5 to show that that was in fact what Trump is. I'll have to go through my browsing history to find it at some point.

Greg Bovino, the official middle-management individual, was pulled from Minnesota. But the fact is that the big figures in the Trump administration and in their FOX News adjunct have all made false, decidedly fascistic claims about what happened
BEFORE Trump did his soft TACO.

Due Dissidence was on air skewering all of the Trump cheerleaders when last I looked, but I can only watch Due Dissidence for so long. I think it's their style: better in small doses at a stretch, with breaks.

The people whispering in the President's ears want a Fourth Reich, and they're buying up the media. So the trend can be expected to last until the US Dollar crashes. These are our glimmers of hope.

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"You're just gonna have to start building alternative sources of power both inside and outside the state” -- Greg Stoker

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It was a straight up execution. The really sad part is nobody will be charged let alone convicted.

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Trump strikes a positive tone on Tim Walz after phone call with the Minnesota governor

President Donald Trump and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz spoke by phone Monday, a call both men praised and one that signals a potential path forward to ease the boiling tensions in the state created by two shooting deaths by federal immigration agents.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the Democratic leader requested that they “work together.”

“It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” Trump wrote.

It marks a noticeable shift in the way the president has talked about Walz, whom he’s repeatedly criticized for his handling of a fraud scandal in Minnesota and blamed for unrest that has led to federal officers shooting and killing two people in recent weeks.

As recently as Saturday, after a federal agent’s fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, Trump accused Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who is also a Democrat, of "inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric" and slammed them as "sanctimonious political fools."

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Walz called him and that during the conversation he told Walz that he’d have border czar Tom Homan reach out. Trump publicly announced Monday morning that he was sending Homan to Minnesota in the wake of the outcry over the fatal shooting of Pretti, an ICU nurse.

You can see this Trump pattern over and over again -- he makes dramatic head lines with nutty crapola and then eases off a bit whenever the shit ain't gonna fly.

This is one that won't fly as it could lead to major blowback from our simpleton citizenry.

Coming after the bizarre kidnapping of some guy nobody ever heard of, this sickening murder on the screen is making waste of their "He made America respected again" campaign slogan.

Gloom and doom are usually safe bets. But not always.

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Show Trump trying to find some less troublesome techniques for rousting the immigrants who should be killed but have sympathetic details in their story like not breaking any law or posing any threat to the masked heroes who kill them. It is a tough sell for MAGA Nation, no matter how stupid the American people may seem to us possessors of reason and logic. One particular wingnut platform featured a story showing Petti supposedly engaging in violence somewhere and somewhen. Just not when his masked murderers were beating the shit out of him before popping five caps in his ass.

Good luck with that excuse, Mr. Fucknuts. "He had it coming." Even stupid Americans know that it is not law enforcement to kill anybody who has it coming.

My take -- many are too quick to push the panic button. Life in America is getting crappier by the day, but Nazi Germany is still a pipe dream for wingnuts, and there is negligible profit coming from offing random unMAGA citizens.

The fight that the whore-Dems promised but do not wage is starting this winter. We must not put our hopes for survival on politicians. But we have to spread a message of SURVIVAL to our erstwhile complacent fellow citizens.

Congratulating ourselves for being so much smarter than our neighbors is counter-productive.

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