'What the F*ck Did You Do?!' Video Contradicts DHS Claims About Killing of Alex Pretti | Common Dreams
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Graphic video shows federal agents shooting and killing a man in Minneapolis, contradicting DHS claims. Was the victim really a threat? Why did Border Patrol Commander Bovino shut down the press conference?

The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”

In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone.

Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared “to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk” and showed the shooting at a closer distance than the footage taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts.

In the video, the shooting victim, dressed in a brown coat and pants, is seen filming a federal agent with his phone. He’s then seen guiding another person toward the sidewalk as the agent forcefully shoves a third person to the ground.

  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Why would the neoconfederates also win in the north? I would assume that not everything can be attributed to people from the south.

    In 2000, for instance, the US Census Bureau found that residential segregation has on average declined since 1980 in the West and South, but less so in the Northeast and Midwest.[116] Indeed, the top ten most segregated cities are in the Rust Belt, where total populations have declined in the last few decades.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Confederate and especially Neoconfederate does not mean “people from the south.” Lost causism is everywhere in this country.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
      2·
      3 days ago

      You are basically dismissing a pretty low bar because some other bars that are following suit are not that low. The “People from the South” are not the problem, rather, it is the stranglehold in information warfare that prevents Americans from living in a shared reality that has now been cultivated and ingrained into culture for several generations.

      • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        it is the stranglehold in information warfare that prevents Americans from living in a shared reality

        So where is the connection to neoconfederates?

        Neo-Confederates are groups and individuals who portray the Confederate States of America and its actions during the American Civil War in a positive light.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Confederates

        • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
          1·
          2 days ago

          whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh

          it is the stranglehold in information warfare that prevents Americans from living in a shared reality that has now been cultivated and ingrained into culture for several generations.

          “So WhErE iS tHe CoNnEcTiOn WiTh ThIs GrOuP tRyInG tO eStAbLiSh A sTrAnGlEhOlD In iNfOrMaTiOn wArFaRe tHaT PrEvEnTs aMeRiCaNs fRoM LiViNg iN A ShArEd rEaLiTy tHaT HaS NoW BeEn cUlTiVaTeD AnD InGrAiNeD InTo cUlTuRe fOr sEvErAl gEnErAtIoNs!?!?!? ChEcKmAtE & lInK!”

          It has honestly been a waste of time.

          • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I believe that there is a stranglehold in information warfare. But without any supporting reasoning I don’t understand why the motivation for that warfare should come from Neo-Confederates. I would rather believe that that explanation is a distraction and part of the warfare.