On Sunday, after the execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Kash Patel, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, told an interviewer of FOX News, "you cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law."
The Minnesota Gun Owner's Caucus responded immediately by saying, "There is no prohibition on a permit holder carrying a firearm, loaded with multiple magazines at a protest or rally in Minnesota." '
After an online MAGA type complained Alex Pretti wasn't carrying the state required ID--a fact presumably discovered after his body was searched--the group responded by saying, "It's a $25 ticket." What they left unsaid, given what had happened the day before was, a $25 ticket is not equal to a Capital Crime punishable by a death sentence. Especially a death sentence carried out by an impromptu firing squad at the scene without the inconvenience of a trial.
Yes, it looks as if the DHS and its policies have accomplished the unimaginable. Their KG B/Gestapo tactics and lame excuses have gone so far, they've managed to alienate at least one pro-gun lobbying organization. It is not a group usually associated with, "radical leftists."
Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino, Tom Homan, Kash Patel, and ultimately Donald Trump have only themselves to blame for the current unpopularity and outright distrust of all the various parts of the Department of Homeland Security. Lying about what is going on is one thing, however lying in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary is another. We all saw Alex Pretti holding a camera, not, as Noem initially said, "brandishing a gun." We watched as Renee Good tried to steer her vehicle around that agent, not over him. People are filming all this awful shit; don't any of you gruesome carnies get that?
Apparently not. During a Sunday interview with CNN's Dana Bash, Bovino (who has the look and smell of Casablanca's Major Heinrich Strasser going for him) insisted Alex Pretti, while packing a firearm, was attempting to impede the arrest of a known criminal, illegal immigrant. He even hinted Pretti was trying to direct traffic so as to interfere with the arrest. Bovino claimed Pretti initially approached the Border Patrol officers, but the tape shows one of them approaching him while he was at a distance. Pretti only began to move toward them after they shoved a woman to the ground. The agents attacked him as he tried to reach her. After he went to the ground an agent sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, while another kicked him savagely in the back.
During the middle of this one-sided dog pile a third agent reached in and pulled a gun out of the crush, then slid it away on the sidewalk. After Alex Pretti's legally owned and carried weapon was taken from him another agent yelled, "Gun, gun." That's when a now unarmed, ICU nurse at a veteran's hospital was shot at least ten times. A Doctor at the scene was initially denied access to Pretti so the agents could count the number of bullet holes in his body.
After his interview with Bash, Bovino told a press conference, "The suspect put himself in that situation. The victims are the border patrol agents there." He failed to explain why the "victims," removed all the evidence of the shooting afterward.
Noem told the media, Alex Pretti was a would-be assassin who had come to the protests armed in order to commit a "massacre." Her sole piece of evidence backing up the accusation was that Pretti was carrying his legally permitted gun. Then, along with others, including Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullins, and Trump himself, she blamed Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor, Jacob Frey for inciting violence and insurrection. According to Mullins, "They both have blood on their hands."
This morning a retired U.S. Army general said that while ICE and the Border Patrol might be dressed as the military, "They conduct themselves like a poorly trained militia." He's giving them far too much credit. They conduct themselves exactly the way Stephen Miller and Trump want them to. Like a gang of outlaw bikers stoked up on cheap vodka and Nazi crank.
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