3rd shooting in Minnesota.

[Oldcarpy2]

Looks like he might of had a bullet proof vest also. That could explain the extra shots fired.

"Might of had"?

Where was he shot?

Also, what was the justification for violently shoving the woman to the ground?

[Vermilion]

That link is dead with no other source of it that I can find.

Even if that’s true, it’s still hilarious you find that more relevant than if he pulled a gun or not. Read the quote “they had never known him to carry it”. 

That means absolutely nothing. I don’t announce to all my family if I have guns, and where they are. What’s the point? Some of them may know, some of them not.

It would be like if I didn’t know, but found out one of my siblings smoked weed. Something they may not have wanted to tell me, means nothing in this instance or a court of law.

But sure, him pulling or not pulling a gun is irrelevant.

care to share with the class your source on him scrubbing his socials? Or is that just OK for you to run around stating as fact while there are different standards for people who see things differently around here?

“Family members said Pretti owned a handgun and had a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Minnesota. They said they had never known him to carry it.”
https://www.koat.com/article/alex-pretti...s/70123333

Notice they used the word “never”.
They didn’t use words like “rarely” “occasionally” “hardly” etc.
Never.

From the interview with his family, they knew he was an activist.
They knew he had a pistol.
They knew he had a concealed carry permit.
Why would it surprise his family that he was carrying since he openly had a concealed carry permit to do so?
If he was hiding his carrying from them, logic says he would hide the fact that he had a concealed carry license.
You trying to frame Pretti as not wanting to tell them he carries is silly.
They said never.

[Kurokage]

“The position of commander-at-large was a temporary position.”

He’s done with his deployment and is now back home deporting illegals in California.
Pretti beat him to ‘retirement’ so I suppose he gets the last laugh.
Poor Bovino.

There you go making light of a deadman, yeah it's so funny!!

What is funny is how you see Bovino being pushed out as redeployment!! 

[Kurokage]

I saw a video of them trying to disarm him. But no video of the gun coming out of his holster. Could've been anyone's gun that popped loose. Didn't look like the gun he had. Was smaller and more compact. And these video's are being faked anyway.

They grabbed his gun from his holster whilst he was on the ground being beaten, after which he was shot 10x It's clear as day on the video.

[Vermilion]

Also, regarding social media…

Pretti’s ex wife-
“She said he was a Democratic voter and that he had participated in the wave of street protests following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, not far from the couple's neighborhood. She said they often livestreamed what was going on to social media”
https://www.koat.com/article/alex-pretti...s/70123333

He’s an activist, live-streaming on social media, where are his socials?
Scrubbed is the only logical conclusion.

[Kurokage]

He’s an activist, live-streaming on social media, where are his socials?
Scrubbed is the only logical conclusion.

Are you the British Police??  He was live streaming on social media, he must be evil!!

[KrustyKrab]

This is just coming out, he was interfering with ICE operations a week prior to his shooting.  The guy was literally looking for trouble and found it.   


“Federal immigration officers have been collecting personal information about protesters and agitators in Minneapolis, sources told CNN – and had documented details about Alex Pretti before he was shot to death on Saturday.
It is unclear how Pretti first came to the attention of federal authorities, but sources told CNN that about a week before his death, he suffered a broken rib when a group of federal officers tackled him while he was protesting their attempt to detain other individuals.

The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene.”

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/alex-p...polis-invs

[Maxmars]

Maxmars 

No agent fired UNTIL that first shot... till then they were detaining him, he goes to jail and is back at work Monday

when you've been struggling with a combative subject for "how long," it's reactionary training to respond to a gunshot.

Especially if they knew he was packing heat beforehand, especially if someone yelled gun, but DID NOT announce it had been cleared before the misfire.

Please don't let me misrepresent my position, I wish to be understood.

"I" am not calling for hell and fury to come down upon law enforcement for one event in thousands...
"I" am not celebrating a death.
"I" am unconcerned in opining about justice or righteousness not yet manifest.

But I am concerned with a stream of relentless schadenfreude, resentful reactions to it, and a few people who seem to be "relentlessly driven towards bot-like sloganeering." 

Take this thread feed to an LLM and discover what is actually in here... en toto.

I don't need to do that to see what is in here... and how often and how directed.

I am no longer going to subscribe to this thread because my ideas seem less well-met here.

I don't think in any scenario that people should be slain...

Frankly - I'm a bastard who believes that with authority comes greater responsibility... causing death is failure.
It's never ever to be "lauded" and "celebrated" ... only lamented when necessary or unavoidable.
Intent seeps through...

If this does end up as LLM food... look for it in a 'feedback' loop... echoed by '?' for '?' so users can 'learn.'

Yuk.

But it's just me... my opinion... not necessarily right or wrong, not accusatory or judgemental.

Discussing an objectified time of human crisis is the exact point where the first thing you must acknowledge is "I wasn't there," and "I don't know the people involved."

"Law Enforcement" lost it's pride when it was militarized... now it's about projecting force, the finality and brutality of exposing oneself to such authority... and those few who basely abuse it, making what honor that exists into a suspect motive. 

"Activism" has been poisoned by "professionals" who celebrate "headlines" and pander to their sponsors who respond to metrics alone.  Death has value to them, it "sells."  These poor maybe even well-meaning people were doing that thing the were told is "activism."  But they are never told that when you die... your family may be burned in effigy (take that as a metaphor.)

Both sides lost this "quasi" debate by their own words... but as usual, not in what was said, but how it was said, and when.

If anyone wants to address this post with me, of course I will respond... but I'm withdrawing from all arguments about why these deaths "serve" some purpose.

Good will extended... 

[CriticalStinker]

Also, regarding social media…

Pretti’s ex wife-
“She said he was a Democratic voter and that he had participated in the wave of street protests following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, not far from the couple's neighborhood. She said they often livestreamed what was going on to social media”
https://www.koat.com/article/alex-pretti...s/70123333

He’s an activist, live-streaming on social media, where are his socials?
Scrubbed is the only logical conclusion.

Or not using his name as his handle. Twitter can be anonymous, just like other platforms. So there are other logical explanations.

Or they used hers, there’s another one.

[Oldcarpy2]

Are you the British Police??  He was live streaming on social media, he must be evil!!

Must of been a domestic terrorist then.... it's just like in Iran.

Masked regime thugs assaulting and killing protesters.