Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people

Wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage fatigues, the federal agents took aim and prepared to open fire. “It’s like Call of Duty,” one could be heard saying via a TV mic, referring to a first-person shooter military video game. “So cool, huh?”

This was the scene on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday after armed agents, wearing masks and tactical vests, wrestled 37-year-old Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him dead. The killing took place just over a mile from where Renee Good was fatally shot on 7 January, a scene that itself was less than a mile from where police murdered George Floyd in May 2020.

“How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, demanded at a press conference on Saturday, referring to the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. An angry crowd gathered and swore profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    251·
    14 hours ago

    It already is a civil war. Only one side is fighting it though, while the other keeps saying “wait until the mid-terms”

    • theparadoxEnglish
      11·
      13 hours ago

      It’s more like the GOP hires bloodthirsty, racist thugs who are beating the shit out of anyone they can with total immunity. Then the GOP is shrieking from the rooftops that they are fighting a brutal, dangerous civil war and that it most definitely qualifies as insurrection so the other side keeps encouraging peaceful resistance. Then the completely disconnected, useless fuckwits pretending to represent the rest of America pass a funding bill to fund the hiring and paying of the bloodthirsty, racist thugs while politely wagging their finger and saying, for the umpteenth time, “if they don’t calm down, we’ll actually do something next time!”

    • Fredselfish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      There will be no mid terms especially in that city. But they will do this and worse in any city that Democrats have a chance of winning. Elections are over you can’t elect away fascism.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    49·
    18 hours ago

    The cruelty and anger and violence is the point.

    If Trump has an ounce of power he will weird it over you. The 2025 people want to declare an insurrection and take away all your rights

    as long as Trump has power and the US government abdicates their checks and balances, this will continue.

    • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      14 hours ago

      The 2025 people want to declare an insurrection and take away all your rights

      No, they don’t. You can be detained and deported, even if you are an American citizen, because they have abandoned the concept of due process. Your rights have already been taken away! They’ve already declared that this is the way it is going to be unless the American people fight them, literally. The Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts has publicly said:

      “And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

      Trump and the entire GOP that are enabling him are following the Project 2025 agenda. They will continue to violate our rights. They will continue to brutalize and kill innocent immigrants and citizens until we take to the streets and, by some means, either economic, violent, or some other means I can’t imagine, stop them.

      • theparadoxEnglish
        6·
        13 hours ago

        The Insurrection Act would fast track and legitimize (in their eyes) the process. They do want that. The key for the rest of us is to be as peaceful as possible until it becomes socially untenable to let it continue - allow it to achieve critical mass. After that, something will happen and the situation will change, through whatever means it takes.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      14·
      8 hours ago

      If they can murder anyone in the street on camera and kidnap anyone to a hidden torture/death camp that no one is allowed to inspect, and no judge or politician or cop is able to stop them or bring them to justice, then they effectively already took away your rights.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      23·
      17 hours ago

      want to declare an insurrection and take away all your rights

      No reaction or peaceful response will have this happen too. Clearly they have no problem with lying despite abundant evidence to the contrary.

      • peopleproblems
        6·
        15 hours ago

        They have a narrative to maintain. Tyranny requires constant effort. That wasn’t just made up in Andor for a good speech.

        They have to make the opposition look dangerous and weak. They have to make themselves look strong and at risk. Right now what’s happening in Minnesota doesn’t fit the fascist narrative, so they are desperately hoping to trigger more.

        Unfortunately, I’m pretty confident at this point there is a US version of the Moscow Apartment Bombings being prepared.

        Will it be in Minnesota? Maybe. Could ICE be in Minnesota to distract from where they are really planning it? Also a possibility.

        Think of how much focus is on Minneapolis right now. We know they pulled a lot of ICE from the entire nation to go there. If the false flag were to go off in Chicago, New York City, LA, New Orleans, etc. They can spin the narrative that "Minnesota, in its recklessness pulled too many ICE resources away from [location] and [terrible event] occurred. We have no other option than to deploy troops to every major city. "

    • khannieEnglish
      151·
      16 hours ago

      he will weird it over you

      Class A typo :D