If ICE thugs won't get punished for the 2nd time, I'd expect a 3rd one
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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Im guessing that this is going to escalate until either martial law or ICE leave MN.
Yeah, ICE ain’t leaving. TACO has no force compelling him to do so.
I’d bet a fiver on a 3rd killing in the next couple weeks. As soon as the first person fights back it’ll be martial law.
I really home the general strikes take off, but the movement needs leadership and direction. Fuck.
Couple of weeks? I'm betting the end of the weekend.
There are going to be betting pools on who future victims will be, and someone will win big.
The US is fucked. 😞
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And a fourth. And a fifth. And then world war 3.
Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said during a news conference that federal officers blocked his agency from the shooting scene, and when they returned with a signed judicial warrant, they were still blocked.
And then, despite having the police and national guard available to secure a crime scene from the murderers themselves, they threw up their hands and tutted disapprovingly.
Rule of law has eroded in the USA. Death by a thousand cuts.
Signed warrants. Jurisdiction. This means nothing to this administration.
Right?! Why the fuck weren't the agents blocking the investigation arrested for obstruction of justice?! What the hell is going on?
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And who are the national guard going to be guarding here?
Asking the important questions
Whoever they are ordered to, they don't get to decide. And history is shown repeatedly that the united states president always wins when in legal battle with a governor.
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Murdered is the technical term for what happened.
Cold-blooded murder is the writer's term for it.
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Here's a multi angle link that's being updated regularly as new video comes in.
https://eyesupapp.com/video/89d854e9-424c-47ea-a585-f3c72351e6e7
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It looked like an execution to me, I believe the world will see it that way within a couple days as well.
Nazi style, check side by side pics with nazi summary execution of an undesirable.
My only question: will this administration federalize Minnesota national guard?
The "State's Rights" crowd is gonna love it. Unironically.
And if so, will they listen?
Trump shared images of the gun that immigration officials said was recovered and said: “What is that all about? Where are the local Police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE Officers?”
Note that these are the same Republicans who have lectured us for decades about people's right to carry guns legally.
~~Also, the image they circulated seems to have been on the internet for a while. It's not this man's gun:~~
EDIT: I have been unable to confirm this last claim, or that the image search results below are real. The source of the search results image is this Threads post.
That 5 days ago link is just a weekly discussion thread that was made 5 days ago. The gun image was posted in the thread after the shooting.
Thanks. Yes, I'm starting to think this is a red herring so I updated my comment above.
It does seem the gun was not in his possession when he was shot: https://imgur.com/a/ice-taking-victims-holstered-gun-before-shooting-started-NtnH5Hv
The guard was activated to assist police. UsA is cooked
And the police are more concerned with protests and property than enforcing the law against lawless invaders.
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It’s scary to me, how fast USA turned from ”the land of freedom/opportunity” to an openly fascist state.
50 years? That is the time it turned from, 1971 business roundtable made the first long term game plan project 2025 is the baby of.
It has been fucked our entire lives getting worse.
Just to be clear, this was for white folks, for BIPOC it's never been freedom and opportunity, broadly speaking.
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Was it fast though? Isn't this what lots of people were talking about how fucked up the US was already but people choose to ignore because *murica first? It was pretty obvious to a lot of people it was a crap country already
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And 2/3rds of voting Americans ~~voted for it~~ welcomed it with open arms.
Haha you believed it was the land of freedom and opportunity. Ah well, we all gotta learn at some point, so welcome aboard.
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They decline to identify the man because he’s white.
The victim's name is Alex Pretti
Alex Pretti was a nurse and researcher who worked for the VA. He was executed for attempting to block Nazi Gestapo from assaulting/kidnapping a woman. 8 Nazis wrestled him to the ground and then shot him 11 times. The first shot appeared to go into his back.
No one should die because of ice, but there’s an extra level of hurt when it’s a person whose life is about helping others.
1000x more valuable to society than every agent there combined.
Seriously. Huge loss.
An ICU nurse who got licensed in 2021, right when the covid delta-wave was gearing up to slam critical care units that summer
We all may feel some impulse to act, even violently, but have a great feeling of uncertainty because there are no leaders. We need direction based off of game theory, or something. We need strategies that are surgical, because be real — we are outgunned. Yes, there are gun owners on the left, but come on, you know who has the lion’s share. Not only that, but we are different in that we hesitate to harm, because it’s the last thing we want. My dad kills animals for pleasure, but I do not. Also, if you aren’t armed now, you better do so immediately, because the gun nuts are not going to blink an eye when we are inevitably denied access.
We need real strategy. Daggers in a select few hearts may be enough to shift things.
Are there organizations or groups that do this? They would have to do it in secret, so how could we know? So it seems we’d have to assume we couldn’t know and form our own? Honestly, please clue me in!
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This looks like the way a civil war begins.
Who is the person running away with the gun!? They join the huddle then walk towards camera to leave.
Come to NYC fuckers, we're big fans of terrorists. Bring all of you. 8 million of us want to say hi.
The nypd is on their side and there are how many again? 40k street goons and another 30k paper pushers? I forget i is huge.
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